Telecom Financial Analyst

The Telecom Expense Management Unit team manages costs associated with telecommunication services, such as mobile and landline communications, including IT services such as cloud services, and data expenses.

Responsibilities:

• Establish/Optimize process services, such as mobile and landline communications, in preparation for monthly carrier reports analysis for the department; Analyze report for data integrity.
• Establish/Optimize process to manage costs associated with telecommunication services, review vendor reports to reduce cost by eliminating errors by eradicating cost inefficiencies identifying cost savings opportunities and optimize MTA’s wireless, voice and data services.
• Establish/Optimize process to Analyze vendor expenses and compare to funding of contract.
• Establish/Optimize process to Prepare forecast budget expense reports.
• Establish/Optimize preparation status reports on in-process and completed projects. To indicate if projects are within budget parameters from both a dollar and time perspective.
• Establish/Optimize process to prepare and evaluate mid-year and year-end forecasts, monitor spending, and secure rollover of unspent funds.
• Establish/Optimize process to track planned and actual expenses in support of the annual budget process.
• Establish/Optimize process to Investigate and resolve project budget variances

Required/ Preferred Skills :

• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics preferred.
• Experience with project-based financial management budgeting/forecasting and or auditing a plus.
• Ability to independently compile, research and perform in-depth analysis of projects.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with ServiceNow, reporting and dashboards.
• Experience with PeopleSoft.
• Profound knowledge of analytical functions and table functions.
• Ability to work with large databases and financial software applications.
• Superior skills with spreadsheets and databases.
• Strong communication, analytical and data organization / interpretation skills.
• Proven ability to multi-task, work under pressure, and meet tight deadlines.
• Attention to detail and accuracy is required.
• Superior skills with Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
• Outstanding organizational and quantitative skills as well as experience managing and resolving complex resource allocation problems.
• Ability to perform high-volume work accurately and independently.
• Ability to gather business requirements and outline business needs.
• Ability to perform financial and data analysis using various financial systems
• Superior analytical skills
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Strong knowledge in automation- manual processes.
• In-depth experience analyzing very large data reports, databases and financial reports.
• Ability to identify trends analyze data and make recommendations.
• Invoice analysis Tracking.
• Experience in Budget and project spend tracking.
• Information Technology