Speedway is immediately hiring a Senior Financial Analyst. The Cloud Analyst is responsible for overall public cloud cost management and reporting for the 7 ELEVEN organization operating as a tower within IT Infrastructure Services. This role is responsible for delivery of financial analysis focusing on Azure IaaS, PaaS, and O365 services, technologies, licensing, processes, roadmap, and strategy that is positively impactful to the enterprise productivity. This role will provide vision for enabling the continuous delivery of superior support for infrastructure’s internal customers. In addition, this position is responsible for project management for large initiatives, developing the team by providing consultation services as well as identifying knowledge base training opportunities for future planning and development of IT resources.

Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Data Center Services, this is a highly depended upon role requiring leadership and partnership with IT and Business functional areas.

Our benefits include:

• 401k plan
• Weekly paychecks and paid holidays
• Paid vacation and sick pay plans
• Coverage in medical, dental, life, and vision insurances
• Tuition Reimbursement and Adoption Assistance

Responsibilities:

• Work with IT Leaders and business partners to build the IT Expense and Capital Plans and obtain proper approvals.
• Partner with IT Leadership, FP&A, Stakeholders, and Accounting to develop and track monthly forecasted spend and variance analysis.
• Ensure governance controls are maintained and proper approvals are in place for capital projects.
• Ensure project and operational invoices are received and paid timely.
• Track capitalization of resources against Capital Plan budget and ensure project time is capitalized appropriately.
• Track expense actuals against OSG&A Plan budget.
• Proactively evaluate project trends, expense trends, and forecast data to identify potential financial impact activities.
• Identify and promote process improvements by creating and maintaining financial reports, trend analysis, and dashboards using Power BI, Excel, and SQL to track KPI Metrics and Performance.
• Work with IT Leaders to manage IT Capital and Expense Plan financials and ensure budget thresholds are met.
• Ensure IT Capital spend is linked to approved initiative/budget, purchase orders are opened and approved timely, correct GL coding applied to all invoices, accurate monthly accruals for pending invoices/spend, all spend recorded to the appropriate month and cost centers (experience with Oracle highly desired).
• Work with the IT Project Manager’s to determine the appropriate level of funding required to design, develop, and deliver services that meet the organizational strategy, while considering the quality of requirements and risk factors.
• Assist IT leaders by reviewing completed business cases and documentation to ensure Projects are ready to go before the Review Committees.
• Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with individual and strategic organizational plans and forecasts, using cost/product analysis and proformas.
• Develop metrics through monthly meetings with budget managers to create predictability of revenue and expenditures and reduce risk of over-spending.
• Prepare monthly presentations for stakeholders and leadership reviews with Capital and Expense Plan updates.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and experience

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of overall work experience
• Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, OCI, GCP) IaaS (ASR, BaaS) cost management experience
• Hybrid Cloud infrastructure integration experience is a plus
• Experience leading cost reduction initiatives is a plus

Skill Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelors/4 Yr Degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics must have.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal, at all levels of the organization. Resilient under pressure.
• 5+ years working with IT Financial Management preferred
• Must have Strong skills in developing monthly and ad-hoc reports using Excel
• Must have strong skills in Power BI dashboard creation and management.
• Strong Attention to Detail.
• Takes initiative, ownership, and accountability for job responsibilities.
• Able to work independently.
• Experienced in both Expense and Capital Plan financials, budgeting and planning, quantitative / statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data processing.
• Able to clearly explain variances and make recommendations to upper management about financial implications.
• Able to clearly explain the appropriate procedures and required controls to upper management.
• Experienced with managing large portfolios.
• Create and perform financial forecasting and trend analysis.
• Able to identify complex and unusual patterns with respect to key metrics and create financial “What If” scenarios for future business planning.
• Experienced in Creating Executive Level Financial Power Point Presentations.
• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills.

Speedway LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to workplace diversity.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Weekend availability

Work Location: One location

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