Sr. Financial Analyst

CoreCivic is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst to support IT Finance planning, analysis, reporting, and controls for assigned technology spend areas.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial analysis, reporting, and variance explanations for assigned IT spend areas, including operating expense, capital spend, vendor services, maintenance, and technology projects.
• Support the annual IT budget and monthly forecast cycles by gathering inputs, maintaining templates, validating assumptions, preparing schedules, analyzing trends, and documenting risks and opportunities.
• Monitor actual spend, purchase commitments, project costs, invoices, accruals, and forecast changes to support accurate, complete, and timely financial data.
• Track assigned IT portfolios by organizing spend, commitments, forecasts, and reporting according to the applicable IT functional structure.
• Assist with capital project financial tracking, including approved budgets, actual spend, commitments, forecast to complete, project coding, capitalization support, and project closeout activities.
• Produce monthly reporting packages, dashboards, reconciliations, schedules, and analyses for review by the Managing Director and IT leadership.
• Support financial models, business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and scenario analyses for technology investments, renewals, and cost optimization opportunities.
• Research and explain budget variances, forecast changes, vendor spend trends, software renewal activity, hardware lifecycle costs, and project financial performance.
• Maintain financial files, templates, reporting tools, trackers, and documentation to support consistent IT finance processes and audit-ready records.
• Coordinate with IT budget owners and project teams to gather information, validate financial data, resolve open items, address routine financial questions, and prepare issues for Managing Director review.
• Identify data issues, process gaps, unusual trends, potential financial risks, and variance drivers; document findings and recommend next steps for escalation or resolution.
• Support development, documentation, maintenance, and consistent execution of IT finance policies, procedures, templates, trackers, reporting standards, and standard work.
• Domestic U.S. travel may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field from an accredited college or university is required.
• 3+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Accounting, FP&A, business analysis, or a related financial role is required.
• Experience preparing budgets, forecasts, variance analyses, financial reports, reconciliations, and management schedules is required.
• Strong understanding of financial planning, operating expense management, capital tracking, accruals, project costs, and financial reporting is required.
• Ability to analyze detailed financial data, identify trends, explain variances, and summarize findings clearly for both finance and non-finance stakeholders is required.
• IT Finance experience required (financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, cost analysis, or related functions).
• Must be local at the time of application.
• Onsite role in Brentwood, TN, requiring attendance Monday through Thursday (4 days per week). No relocation package.
• Candidates must meet both the IT Finance experience and local residency requirements to be considered.

Preferred / Additional Qualifications

• Finance experience supporting IT areas such as cybersecurity, infrastructure, end-user computing, hardware, software, SaaS, cloud, vendor contracts, or technology project financial management is preferred.
• Experience supporting capital project tracking, capitalization processes, fixed asset activity, or project portfolio reporting is preferred.
• Experience with ERP, EPM, planning, reporting, procurement, business intelligence, or project portfolio management systems is preferred.
• Experience developing dashboards, recurring reports, financial trackers, or process documentation is preferred.

Tools / Technologies

• ERP
• EPM
• Planning
• Reporting
• Procurement
• Business intelligence
• Project portfolio management systems