Business Management Analyst

Description

Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) to develop comprehensive, data-driven business cases and optimization ideas from problem definition through approval and benefits realization.
• Gather and synthesize financial, operational, technical, and qualitative data into cohesive, evidence-based, narrative-driven decision artifact.
• Independently validate financial assumptions and calculations, including return on investment, net present value, payback period, run-rate savings, and one-time benefits, using established financial templates and methods.
• Perform sensitivity and risk analyses to identify material financial, execution, schedule, or benefits-realization risks; document findings and recommend corrective actions.
• Review business cases, optimization ideas, and supporting artifacts against established narrative and financial standards to ensure submissions are complete, internally consistent, defensible, and executive-ready.
• Advise and coach IPTs on business case and optimization idea development, financial modeling, and executive narrative quality.
• Maintain the accuracy, completeness, traceability, and reporting readiness of initiative data within the Optimization Hub.
• Produce and analyze approved business cases and optimization ideas performance reporting for weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews, highlighting trends, exceptions, and emerging risks.
• Monitor business cases and optimization ideas across pipeline stages and apply established health, aging, and at-risk criteria consistently.
• Escalate material variances, aging actions, and underperforming initiatives to project owners and appropriate leadership, supported by clear analysis and recommendations.
• Partner with Business Management, CIDO, and other stakeholders to reconcile realized savings, run-rate versus one-time classifications, and budget-to-actual results.
• Identify recurring control, reporting, and data-quality issues and recommend improvements to templates, standards, metrics, and operating processes.
• Prepare and present financial analyses, portfolio insights, and recommendations to managers, directors, and other senior stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary analytical point of contact for assigned business cases and optimization ideas.

Job Characteristics

Required Qualifications

• 3 years of relevant experience with a Bachelors; 1 years with Masters
• Advanced Excel skills, including development and review of formula-driven financial models.
• Working proficiency with data visualization and reporting tools.
• Experience preparing and presenting executive-level reporting to senior leadership.
• Ability to develop proficiency in the FinOps Framework as well as data center and cloud financial-management concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with IT cost management, procurement, FinOps, and/or corporate FP&A program doing business cases and cost-benefit analysis.
• FinOps practitioner certificate
• Strong written communication skills, with experience holding business documents to an explicit narrative or writing standard.
• Able to work independently within established standards and recommend practical improvements to templates, metrics, and processes.