Technical Financial Analyst

Coordinates with all levels of IT and business management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare recommendations regarding budget plans, trend future requirements and operating forecasts. Model business scenarios, funding investment scenarios, and track performance metrics to enable IT leadership to make strategic department and company-wide decisions.

Facilitate the development of monthly, quarterly, annual, ad-hoc financial reports to report budget performance and variances analysis. Lead activities between IT and business units in order to prepare annual project portfolio budget based on organization's performance, expense reports and past budget. Review and analyze budget on a monthly basis to analyze trends affecting budget needs.

Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis around cost drivers and budget consumption trends. Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance. Develops and communicates complex ROI models to analyze and recommend project business value to aid senior management decision making on project prioritization.

Ensures tools functionality and supporting financial management processes are in synergy with Finance and Accounting, IT Governance, and IT Program Office. Create, design, and maintain reusable datasets with appropriate architecture to work with high level of data complexity. Create dashboards/reports to surface data for different stakeholders.

Contribute to the development of analytical frameworks, tools, and skills needed in support of technical requirements. Develop and design solutions to scale and automated financial processes. Guides the analysis, development, implementation, and maintenance of financial management tools and supporting process to streamline and improve existing financial management processes.

Communicates and trains of the use of tools and supporting processes as appropriate. Designs system processes and workflows to define, test, and implement configuration requirements for financial management platform. Utilizes systems thinking to analyze impact tool configuration against core business processes of asset management, work demand management, application portfolio management, resource management, and contract management on a converged platform.

Identifies and implements process improvement and process automation. Responsible for the overall health of the financial and resource application capabilities. Manages the maintenance and support of assigned application system(s)/modules.

Leads or participates in the evaluation and selection process for application packages within area of responsibility. Makes presentations to solicit project buy-in, report on project status, conduct problem resolution and other types of communication to a variety of audiences. Develops technical specifications for applications.

Serves as technical subject matter expert for development of new code or reuse of existing code, scripts, or other programming requirements. Identifies best sources of data and works with data architects to ensure feasibility with corporate data sources, when needed. May analyze integrated performance across multiple extract/transform/load (ETL) components.

May recommend improvements to system processes to maximize efficiency of applications. Researches, recommends, and applies middleware to facilitate the portability and scalability of applications. Utilizes middleware tools for designing and developing solutions when required.

Provides Tier II (application module) support. May provide Tier III support. Troubleshoots existing systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develops solutions.

Mentor junior positions to increase core systems knowledge and HMSA IT best practices. May be assigned the role of Team Lead which involves resource planning assignments. Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed. LI-Hybrid