Snr. IT License & Financial Management Specialist Contractor
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About This Role
Overview
- The candidate must demonstrate proven knowledge and hands-on experience in the software licensing management domain, particularly with engineering and technical applications. A strong understanding of
IT Service Management (ITSM)
- principles and excellent analytical skills are required.
- Experience with the OpeniT license management tool is considered a strong advantage.
- Software Asset Management (Enterprise Applications & Engineering Software)
- Manage the full software license lifecycle: demand planning, procurement support, entitlement
- validation, allocation, deployment, harvesting, and retirement covering both enterprise applications
- and engineering software portfolios.
- Perform entitlement vs. consumption reconciliation and compliance analysis.
- Support vendor true-ups, renewals, and software audits (e.g., SAP, Microsoft, Oracle).
- Interpret and operationalize licensing agreements, EULAs, and contractual terms.
- Maintain accurate license inventories, documentation, and audit-ready records.
Engineering License & License Server Management
- Administer and optimize engineering application licenses managed through license management
- systems such as (FlexNet Publisher (FlexLM) and OpeniT)
- Manage and monitor license servers, vendor daemons, and concurrent license pools (e.g.,
- CAD/CAE/PLM tools).
- Analyze debug logs and usage logs to identify denials, idle licenses, peak usage patterns, and
- optimization opportunities.
- Perform capacity planning for concurrent environments based on utilization and denial metrics.
- Support high-availability configurations (triad setups, failover, redundancy).
- Coordinate with system administrators to ensure proper configuration, patching, and performance of license services.
- Optimize license parameters (timeouts, borrowing, allocation rules) within contractual boundaries.
License Monitoring, Analytics & Optimization
- Monitor monthly software usage and generate operational and compliance reports for both enterprise applications (e,g., SAP, Microsoft, Oracle) and engineering systems.
- Use SAM analytics tools (e.g., OpeniT, FlexNet Manager, or equivalent) to identify (Underutilized
- licenses, Reclaim opportunities, Cost-saving measures, Compliance risks)
- Analyze consumption trends, anomalies, and usage patterns.
- Provide data-driven recommendations to IT and business stakeholders.
- Support software portfolio rationalization initiatives.
IT Financial Management & Chargeback Support
- Support IT chargeback models by allocating license and software costs to business units and services based on consumption or agreed allocation methodologies.
- Prepare and support annual software budgeting cycles.
- Perform budget vs. actual variance analysis and provide financial insights.
- Support accrual calculations and financial closing activities.
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