QualificationsFinancial managementAzureBusiness managementProgram management
Responsibilities
Partnering with Finance, establish budgeting calendar and drive finance planning process and communications across the budget champions and Leadership Team reviews
Understand the end-to-end business needs to manage priorities most effectively including helping to unblock challenges/mitigate risks across the organization.
Coordinate across the budget champions for each team, providing guidance and clarity on timelines and action items
Negotiate and execute all vendor contracts. Manage the POs and SOW for global vendor contracts, driving efficiencies and identifying opportunities for synergy.
Provide regular updates to various levels of stakeholder groups
Pro-actively address and communicate deviances from plan
Ensure timely review of capital expense budget items to stay on plan
Partner with engineering teams to forecast changes in Azure spend
Qualifications
5-7 years’ experience in Business Management, Financial Management, and/or Program Management.
2-3 years vendor contract negotiations
Demonstrated experience tracking budget to actuals and providing reports to various audience levels
Ability to work effectively throughout the organization, from executives to individual contributors and with internal and external partners.
Program/Project Management experience with the ability to deal with ambiguity associated with working in a fast paced and changing environment.
Analytical, critical thinking, problem resolution, and decision-making skills.
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