Lead Manager, Project & IT Budget Analyst

Make-A-Wish America is the world’s largest wish-granting organization, dedicated to uniting communities to grant life-changing wishes. The Project & IT Budget Analyst will assist in planning and leading projects while overseeing the IT fiscal year budget maintenance, planning, and forecasting.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and monitor project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenses with project managers
• Break projects into doable actions and set timeframes
• Organize, host, attend, document, and participate in project/stakeholder meetings
• Preparing necessary presentation materials, agendas and/or meeting minutes for meetings, decisions and/or trainings
• Ensure project deadlines, requirements, and scope are met
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, meeting notes, plans and status reports for projects
• Work closely with the Finance department to oversee IT departmental budget to include forecasting, actuals, accruals, and expense planning
• Own and maintain core budget processes and tracking tools to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent handling of financial information, documentation, and approvals
• Ensure year end spend/forecast goals are met
• Enable budget owners to accurately manage their expenses by providing support, coordination, communication, visibility, and guidance at each opportunity
• Log and track actual IT spend each month
• Analyze actual spend against forecast & budget for the current fiscal year, identifying opportunities, risks, issues, overages, and/or under spend
• Coordinate contract administration and invoice management to support IT budget tracking and financial accuracy, including intake, organization, compliance, and alignment with budget, approval, and payment processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Technology, Data Analysis, or equivalent work experience is required
• 5+ years professional experience with 2+ years experience in project coordination, support, budget management or similar role
• Demonstrated ability to gather and analyze data, develop insights, make recommendations and support execution of process and business solutions
• Strong computer skills required, specifically in Microsoft Office applications and Smartsheet
• Experience supporting financial processes such as budgeting, forecasting, contract or invoice coordination, or similar operational workflows preferred
• Prior experience working in a non-profit organization desired