Contract Management Analyst

Location: Oakland, CA
Duration: 6 Months

Responsibilities:

• Assist with daily contract operations and provide general IT business & planning support.
• Prepare reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data and information; prepare presentation materials for management reports.
• Enter contract financial liabilities into the contract management ATRIUM tool.
• Assist in the initiation, orchestration, and coordination of contract renewal analysis for IT operations and financial reviews.
• Maintain annual Operational Expense budgets using proper accounting/budgeting controls, enter financial data into tracking system, and compile regular and ad-hoc financial status reports.
• Monitor Purchase Orders, review contract invoices, accruals, identify disparities, and resolve issues with vendors.
• Analyze actual spend and forecasting to determine if/when appropriate change controls and escalation reporting to leadership.
• Provide financial analysis on portfolio cost variances for plan vs. actual and identify inappropriate charges by resources or vendors, making appropriate corrections in SAP.
• Lead meetings and act as a liaison among stakeholders to coordinate, document, and schedule changes to IT contracts.
• Capture, analyze, and present data to managers and directors to aid in business decision making.
• Effectively plan and control the scope of work on contract renewals; integrate all aspects, track, and ensure that contracts origination targets are on schedule and meet the required standard.
• Develop communications needed to summarize analysis and discuss recommendations for peers and executives, which may include dashboards, PowerPoint decks, or summarized emails.
• Facilitate problem-solving sessions and workshops with diverse business and technology team members.
• Proactively follow-up on issues and initiatives for senior leaders to ensure successful resolution and implementation.
• Work closely with leaders and other key stakeholders to ensure that key initiatives and activities are delivered in a timely and coordinated manner aligned with the organization’s goals.
• Work with the data management, financial analysis, and modeling team to build new tools and assist with the creation and migration of reports to Power BI.
• Experience with downloading and extracting data from SAP into meaningful business intelligence reports and dashboards.
• Work with IT and functional leadership to establish a variety of key business, financial, and performance metrics.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Visio, PowerPoint, and expert-level Excel skills.
• Minimum 5 years of related work experience.

Preferred Skills:

• May require valid CA driver’s license.
• Experience with structuring contract agreements.
• Experience with basic financial modeling or data management.
• Experience with presenting to leadership and developing PowerPoint slides.
• Experience with Power BI is a plus.