Contract Analyst
Typical Day in Role:
– Large portion (60% ) of role is reporting and creation/maintenance of reporting, analysis –weekly reporting, providing status updates on where equipment is, creating new purchase orders, working with team to ensure Pos are tracked through installation into steady-state.
– From Request For Service (RFS) side – refreshing data and providing this to financial team
– Other 40% of role: meetings with team, vendors, follow-ups – ad hoc work
– Driving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Program manager’s time and ensuring it aligns with the most critical priorities.
– Gathering necessary information and analyses from various sources and key stakeholders, to identify opportunities for synergies to drive operational awareness and meet objectives.
– Building an understanding of the critical work that is happening across the business group and surfacing issues and challenges.
– Proactive identification of issues that could impact the successful execution of commitments. This responsibility involves elevating those issues that the Program should be aware of and framing/positioning ideas to resolve the problem/mitigate the risk.
– Acting as a liaison to leaders and external stakeholders, as appropriate, to help advance both the DCRC Program’s priorities and the bank’s strategic priorities.
– Upholding a strict level of confidentiality.
– Provide summarized reporting to Program Manager on a monthly/quarterly/yearly/ad hoc basis.
– Assist the DCRC Program Manager and Senior Manager Vendor Optimization in the evaluation of performance/ metrics of services and ensuring billing accuracy of same, highlighting gaps and discrepancies (if any) and flag to both PM and Senior Manager
– Protects operations by keeping contractual and financial information confidential.
– Ad-hoc requests as needed
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 3 to 5 years’ analytics, contract and/or financial management experience
2) Working knowledge of purchasing software, such as SmartBuy
3) Highly proficient in MS Office tools (particularly Excel and Power Point) – must have a high level understanding (PIVOT Tables, VLOOKUPS, graphs, chats, etc)
4) At least 2+ years of experience working on technology related projects
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) 2+ years’ project management/PCO experience highly desirable
2) Bilingual in Spanish / English is a plus
3) Working knowledge of Power BI is an asset
4) Previous experience with Kyndryl (formerly IBM) Request for Service Process
Soft Skills Required:
– Analytical mind with critical thinking, able to juggle multiple competing priorities with strong attention to detail
– Self-driven, highly energetic and team player attitude
– Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities
– Able to meet tight deadlines and flexibility to work evenings/weekends as needed, often on short notice
– The incumbent is comfortable working in a highly virtual environment, with limited face to face supervision but still able to deliver superior quality results in a timely manner
– Candidate must be a self-starter who can work independently
Education:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience