Sr. Financial Analyst – IT Finance

Core Civic is hiring a Sr. Financial Analyst for IT Finance to support budgeting, reporting, and controls for assigned technology spend areas.

Responsibilities

• Produce financial analysis, reporting, and variance explanations for IT spend, including operating expense, capital spend, vendor services, maintenance, and technology projects
• Support the annual IT budget and monthly forecast by collecting inputs, maintaining templates, validating assumptions, preparing schedules, analyzing trends, and documenting risks and opportunities
• Track actual spend and financial commitments across purchase commitments, project costs, invoices, accruals, and forecast changes to support accurate, complete, and timely reporting
• Manage financial tracking for assigned IT portfolios, organizing spend, commitments, forecasts, and reporting by 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
• Prepare monthly reporting packages, dashboards, reconciliations, schedules, and supporting analysis 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 and forecast changes, including 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
• Partner with IT budget owners and project teams to gather information, validate financial data, follow up on open items, resolve routine financial questions, and prepare review issues for the Managing Director
• Identify data issues, process gaps, unusual trends, potential financial risks, and variance drivers; document findings and recommend next steps for escalation or resolution
• Support the development, documentation, maintenance, and consistent execution of IT finance policies, procedures, templates, trackers, reporting standards, and standard work
• Domestic travel within the U.S. may be required

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field (required)
• 3+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Accounting, FP&A, business analysis, or a related financial role (required)
• Experience preparing budgets, forecasts, variance analyses, financial reports, reconciliations, and management schedules (required)
• Strong understanding of financial planning, operating expense management, capital tracking, accruals, project costs, and financial reporting (required)
• Ability to analyze detailed financial data, identify trends, explain variances, and clearly summarize findings for both finance and non-finance stakeholders (required)

Technologies

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

Location and Work Schedule

• Onsite role in Brentwood, TN
• Must attend Monday through Thursday (4 days per week)
• No relocation package
• MUST BE LOCAL at the time of application