IT Financial Analyst
Job Description
TEKsystems is hiring an IT Financial Analyst for an on-site contract role in Goodlettsville, TN focused on managing IT spend through forecasting, reporting, and financial operations.
Responsibilities
- Support annual planning and recurring reforecast cycles, including template preparation, data collection, validation, consolidation, and system updates.
- Maintain budget and forecast detail by cost center, account, activity, initiative, vendor, labor type, and reporting period.
- Analyze forecast risks and opportunities, including timing changes, funding gaps, and potential offsets; escalate items requiring owner or leadership decisions.
- Prepare variance and trend analysis and follow up with stakeholders to document assumptions and corrective actions.
- Create and realign purchase orders; verify available budget prior to commitment.
- Maintain visibility into committed spend.
- Review invoices for coding accuracy, supporting documentation, activity alignment, and approval readiness.
- Coordinate invoice processing and follow up on outstanding items.
- Research payment status, missing or late invoices, vendor discrepancies, and payment disputes.
- Partner with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Tax, Finance, suppliers, and IT stakeholders to resolve financial issues.
- Support supplier onboarding and recurring vendor financial administration activities.
- Research and reconcile actuals, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, prepaids, labor, and forecasts across financial and operational sources.
- Prepare and track accrual support aligned to established Finance timelines and requirements.
- Investigate uncoded or incorrectly coded transactions and coordinate reclassifications, activity corrections, and data cleanup.
- Validate financial files and reports, document discrepancies, and maintain supporting audit documentation.
- Support capital releases, project setup inputs, capital plan reconciliation, and capital overspend reporting.
- Assist with capitalizable labor reporting, contingent and FTE labor allocations, and capital vs. expense documentation.
- Maintain initiative and activity financial structures and evaluate forecast impacts tied to staffing, scope, vendor, delivery plan, and timing changes.
- Support workforce cost scenarios, labor funding, labor savings initiatives, rate changes, labor budget analysis, and funding true-ups.
- Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports for cost center owners, Finance partners, project teams, and IT leadership.
- Communicate financial drivers, coding requirements, process deadlines, and required actions in clear business terms.
- Respond to inquiries related to budget, invoice, purchase order, actuals, forecast, travel, and coding.
- Coordinate issue resolution across functional teams.
- Perform quality control to ensure reports are accurate, reconciled, and concise prior to distribution.
- Document standard operating procedures, templates, controls, calendars, and training materials for repeatable IT finance processes.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve reporting, reconciliation, workflow, and data quality.
- Participate in process improvement initiatives and complete assigned deliverables within established timelines.
Requirements
- Experience in financial analysis, accounting operations, budgeting, procurement support, project finance, or a comparable analytical role.
- Experience reconciling financial data and preparing management reporting.
- Experience supporting technology organizations, shared services environments, or multiple cost centers.
- Working knowledge of: Financial planning.
- Working knowledge of: Forecasting.
- Working knowledge of: Budgeting.
- Working knowledge of: Accruals.
- Working knowledge of: Purchase orders.
- Working knowledge of: Invoice processing.
- Working knowledge of: General ledger concepts.
- Working knowledge of: Internal controls.
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills connecting financial activity across accounts, cost centers, activities, initiatives, vendors, labor types, and reporting periods.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills including: Formulas, Lookups, Pivot Tables, Data Validation, and large-data review.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational, customer service, attention-to-detail, and time-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and appropriately escalate risks or decisions.
- Continuous improvement mindset: document processes, identify control gaps, and recommend practical solutions.
- Ability to learn and use enterprise financial, procurement, portfolio, and reporting systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle.
- Experience with data analysis and reporting tools.
Technologies
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Teams
- PowerPoint
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Job Details
- Location: Goodlettsville, TN (onsite)
- Work arrangement: On-site
- Schedule: 5 days per week on-site
- Employment type: Contract
- Duration: 6 Months
- Experience level: Intermediate
- Anticipated start date: 10/19/2026
Pay and Benefits
- Pay range: $26.00 - $31.00/hr
- Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.
- Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to plan or program terms.
Application deadline: anticipated to close on Sep 28, 2026.