IT Financial Analyst

Job title: IT Financial Analyst

Company: Ssense

Job description: Company Description

We are a purpose-driven, creative community who believes challenging convention moves culture forward, so we use our platform to amplify the voices that are changing the way we see the world. When you join us, you will become a part of an industry-leading fashion platform with a global reach.

Founded in 2003, we pace the vanguard of directional retail with a mix of luxury, streetwear, and avant-garde labels. We produce cutting-edge original content and take pride in building our own technology solutions and systems from scratch. Our field of focus has grown beyond that of a typical e-commerce entity as we explore the nexus of content, commerce, and culture.

Our team is currently 700 strong, serving 150 countries, generating an average of 76 million monthly page views, and achieving high double-digit annual growth since inception. Our work is varied and ambitious. We have a roadmap full of rewarding projects to keep you motivated and engaged, with a leadership ethos based on transparency, collaboration and enabling performance.

Job Description

SSENSE is seeking a motivated and experienced IT Financial Analyst to join our team, playing a key role in supporting all Financial aspects of Information Technology. The Analyst will assist in vendor negotiations, forecasts, and financial analysis for technology purchases, Software, Hardware, Software as a Service (SAAS) and IT Contract Services. This position also supports the financial reporting and analysis for overall IT spend, compiling data that helps IT leadership make operational and financial decisions.

Qualifications

Operations

• Create operational and financial models, dashboards and management reports, as needed
• Work in collaboration with the Procurement Team – Responsible for equipment, software, and telecommunications purchasing including managing purchase process, generating purchase orders, validating and approving invoices
• Participate in collaborative efforts with various domains and service lines to drive improved communication, shared direction, and both control costs and eliminate unnecessary expenses
• Oversee the financial management of IT activities including tracking expenses against budgets, and managing Capex spend
• Assist with managing and forecasting software license counts

Processes & Training

• Operationalize a process to regularly analyze all IT spend, ensuring correct categorization and attribution of data
• Responsible for asset lifecycle management processes including tracking locations of equipment, equipment disposal, and management of maintenance agreements.

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Sourcing, or Technology

Basic understanding of Information Technology projects, purchasing, and vendor selection

Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in a Financial Analyst role, Technology, Operations, and program management

2 years experience managing and reporting AWS costs

SKILLS

Knowledge of operational financial management processes and best practices such as: forecasts/budgeting, cost allocations, capital and operating expense handling

Strong financial acumen and data analytic skills

Strong Technical capabilities in order to effectively challenge status quo

Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines

Initiative to identify opportunities and risks and find creative solutions

Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to all levels of the company

Strong project management skills

Highly analytical and detail oriented

Strong ability to recommend solutions that will deliver improvement

Strong organizational, system orientation and project management skills

Advanced/Expert Excel and PowerPoint skills, particularly charts and graphs

Additional Information

WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY

Technology is at the core of everything we do at SSENSE. Driven by an engineering mindset and a problem-solving attitude, we blend fashion with technology to deliver an unparalleled experience to our customers as we build seamless, custom solutions to deliver the SSENSE offering.

WORLD CLASS TEAM

The SSENSE tech team is responsible for an international headless commerce platform. Working in an agile environment, our squads are made up of experienced innovators in Product Management, QA, Design, DevOps, Software Development, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Security. Headquartered in Montreal, our technology organization has been growing at a rate of 2X year-over-year and is doubling once again in 2021 as we expand across Canada, US, and Europe.

WORLD CLASS PLATFORM

The SSENSE platform runs on Amazon Web Services making use of serverless microservices across web, mobile and app. Our event-source architecture already achieves over 10,000 requests / second and growing at an unmatched pace, currently unseen across the industry. Our data-driven culture of innovation empowers every product team across the tech organization to explore building, testing and learning with the latest in Machine Learning techniques. Our automated continuous improvement DevOps model (making use of both blue / green and canary deployments) results in an average of 50 production releases every day.

Read more about us on our SSENSE .

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Location: Montreal, QC

Job date: Tue, 11 May 2021 22:03:46 GMT