Sr. IT Business Financial Analyst
Western Digital
- San Jose, CA
- $137,275-194,400 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate as a trusted advisor to OCIO management and IT leadership.
- Build and maintain the annual budget plan to forecast, partnering with Finance business partner to align with targets.
- Identify and develop IT variance to plan and project reporting by IT function and sub-function. This will include data identification, consolidation, and validation to support consistent and accurate monthly/quarterly/annual reporting.
- Coordinate the monthly close activities within IT and in partnership with Finance, including expense and capital management, accruals, forecast to actuals variance reconciliation.
- Assess current state and implement improvements for OCIO tools and processes for Annual Plan to facilitate project level intake, review, and approval for simple transition into the formal Annual Plan for the upcoming fiscal year.
- Build and maintain centralized data repository which allows OCIO and IT leadership to quickly understand the consolidated, yet detailed IT spend for the prior rolling 3-5 fiscal years. This includes tracking, reporting and metrics for transformational spend, detailed asset and software licensing/maintenance schedules, spend by business area.
- Support analytics on total cost of ownership of initiatives, return on investment, net present value, lease vs buy, and other relevant analytics in support of IT initiatives and investment areas.
- Support other aspects of financial forecasting, intake and processing of funding requests and purchase requisitions as needed.
- Manage the IT headcount plan and engage with IT leadership to prioritize and achieve hiring objectives.
- Make clear, logical decisions based on facts, taking into consideration the big picture, long and short term effects, and exercising sound judgment when handling complaints, confidential and sensitive topics.
- Provide support and training to IT colleagues regarding the IT financial planning and management process.
- BS in Finance, Computer/Management Information Services or equivalent experience in a relevant field
- 10+ years of experience working in organizations with complex accounting and financial reporting
- Combination of conceptual and analytical capabilities
- Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills
- Master level capabilities with Excel, e.g. pivots
- Experience with Oracle Financials, Smartview, Power BI and SmartSheet strongly desired
- Advanced skills with data analytics tools such as PowerPivot, PowerQuery, Excel VBA and/or equivalent tools preferred
- An employee's pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.