PRIMARY PURPOSE
Provides strategic and tactical advice for financial management and oversight as it relates to TransLink’s technology spend and budget. Facilitates financial planning activities related to BTS Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), risk management, financial management, workforce planning, policy management, and executive/board reporting. Ensures the organization operates consistently, reports accurately, and plans effectively for the future by supporting IT cost tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Ensures effective oversight and planning of IT costs and supports the execution and tracking of cost allocations, cost optimizations, and benchmarking activities.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Manages the creation of budgets and projections on an annual and quarterly basis that supports BTS teams in overseeing budget and resourcing allocations.
Advises executive teams by gathering and analyzing financial data related to IT expenditures, identifying, and providing actionable insights into IT cost allocations, trends, variances, and cost optimization opportunities; acts as a partner and liaison with TransLink’s Finance department to produce cost allocations, accruals, and budget materials.
Develops financial reports relating to various IT spend categories across the enterprise, including areas such as recurring cost tracking, budget preparations, resource planning, benefits realization, and cost optimizations identification.
Monitors, tracks and reports on budgetary spending and performance. Leads technology-related annual budget creation, and ongoing budget management, trend analysis, and forecasting. Collaborates with IT departmental teams to report against budgeted spending and financial KPIs.
Analyzes financial impacts of opportunities for improving efficiencies; creates financial models to analyze and track key business drivers and initiatives and prepares recommendations to relevant executives; proposes, tracks, and monitors the execution of cost optimization opportunities.
Prepares executive briefing materials; adheres to and develops financial and IT general controls related to IT operational and capital spending to ensure reporting accuracy and consistency.
Oversees IT budget and efficiency reviews and benchmarking activities across the organization.
Oversees the creation and management of financial dashboards and reports for transparency, tracking, and supporting financial decision making.