Associate Business Analyst - New College Grad

The Operations & Infrastructure Spend Management team provides essential value by driving O&I funded technology purchases while providing analytical insight to technology product owners, optimizing costs in correlation to product value, and ensuring to remain within the given fiscal budget.The Associate Business Analyst will provide quality analysis through anticipating purchases in advance, performing vendor cost comparison, evaluating currently technology state in comparison with demand. Analyst is also responsible for assisting with ATS/TAR creation, pushing for quick approvals, continuously updating large deals within a 30-60-90 pipeline, entering accurate forecasts, creating tickets for PR/PO creation, and providing quick turnaround from purchase initiation to PO. In addition, this position is also responsible for supporting O&I workforce planning.Essential Functions:    Responsible for budget preparation, quarterly forecasting, monthly variance reconciliation, and procurement processes for the assigned technology lane.Work cross functionally across multiple internal functions and external partiesAssist with driving large-scale projects with ambiguous scope into refined deliverables for executive consumption leveraging project management skills, including ability to prioritize and meet deadlines, follow through on completion of high-profile projects  Support O&I wide workforce plan dashboards and reports.Regularly create and present detailed reports on workforce planning. These reports should provide insights into the effectiveness of current plans, highlight areas for improvement, and forecast future workforce needsTrack FTE and Contingent resources through workforce life cycle. Manage BPO contracts through its life cycle from initiation of work orders, raising purchase requests, managing invoices, and closing out contracts.Facilitate weekly meetings with the senior leadership team to discuss current workforce planning strategies and initiatives, report on outcomes, and gather input for future planning Perform variance vs. forecast analysis to understand how accurate our inputs, assumptions and demand plans are to identify areas of opportunity, and create continuous improvement plans to deliver more accurate forecasts each iteration