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The role of the IT Finance & Budget Manager will provide financial management for the IT organization. Work closely with IT Leadership to create and manage the IT budget for planning and control. Identify disparities and resolve issues with Internal IT and multi-department project budgets. Responsible for the allocation of resources back to the operating companies as required and the periodic reporting of resource and budget consumption. The role of IT Finance & Budget Manager will also be the process owner for the Financial Management process. They will have the overall responsibility for ensuring the suitability of the Financial Management for IT Services process to the organization.

Qualifications:

• Minimum Degree: B.S. / B.A. in the field of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or equivalent.

• 4+ years of experience in accounting or finance role.

• 1+ year of experience in financial planning and analysis.

• Experience in budgeting and forecasting for IT departments and related services.

• General knowledge of GAAP, cost accounting, and activity based accounting methods.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in the field of Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics or equivalent.

• 5+ years experience in financial planning and analysis.

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high pressure environment.

• Highly self motivated and directed.

Responsibilities include:

• Supports the CIO and the CIO Executive Leadership Team in strategy, budgeting, forecasting, and other financial areas

• Oversee the financial operations for the IT Department

• Build, configure, update, upload detailed data, provide training and reports from the IT Finance tool

• Provide an accurate and complete view of spending for all IT resources

• Provide variance analysis comparing actual technology spend versus plan, forecast, and prior year.

• Perform and coordinate project-based financial analysis to support reporting of the operation and capital spend.

• Support the Annual Budget Planning and Forecasting process. Reviews many of the organizational capital requests to make sure the department is included as appropriate.

• Prepare bi-annual shared services report

• Produce monthly financial reports for department cost centers including operating and capital spend.

• Create recurring or ad-hoc reports as requested

• Process procurement requests for operating and capital expenditures including interaction with IT vendors.

• Oversee invoice processing including determining appropriate expense category utilization.

• Track expenditure requests against team and project budgets, identifying which expenses are unbudgeted.

About Us:

Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children's Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Children's to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.

Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.