Business Planning Functional Analyst (IT Governance & Planning)

Quick Facts

• Role: Business Planning Functional Analyst (IT Governance & Planning)

Description

The role builds and runs the planning capabilities behind how technology investments are made, including portfolio management, financial planning, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), workforce capacity, and procurement. You will turn complex business problems into scalable products, processes, and data models by owning outcomes for product areas within a Business Planning suite. Work in sprint-based product cycles with teams across the U.S. and India.

Responsibilities

• Own product areas within the Business Planning application suite, from problem definition through requirements, testing, release, and adoption

• Translate business needs into product requirements, data requirements, and measurable outcomes

• Analyze large, complex financial and operational datasets to find patterns, gaps, and root causes

• Build and refine analytical models for budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and TCO

• Support workforce capacity and demand planning by connecting labor costs, utilization, and project priorities

• Reconcile procurement and financial data across SOWs, purchase requests, purchase orders, receipts, and invoices

• Manage a product backlog with cross-functional partners, weighing competing requests against business value

• Present analysis and recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leaders

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in business analysis, financial analysis, product management, consulting, or a related field

• Experience building analytical models or reports from large, complex, or incomplete datasets

• Experience preparing or analyzing budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variance reports, including OPEX and CAPEX

• Experience analyzing large datasets in Excel or BI tools to find trends, variances, and data quality issues

• Experience translating business needs into written product or system requirements (e.g., user stories or functional specifications)

• Experience working across Finance, Engineering, Procurement, or IT Operations in a large organization

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Sprint-based product development with cross-U.S./India collaboration

• Opportunity to shape enterprise planning capabilities used to align technology costs, workforce capacity, and priorities through planning and analytics systems