Description:

Our Client supports more than 140,000 students across 187 schools. Our Client is proud of its diverse mix of students who represent 184 countries and speak 204 languages and dialects. In addition, our client offers an extensive range of magnet programs in 71 of its schools to nurture students' talents who have interests and abilities in specific areas. They are one of the largest employers in Mecklenburg County, with more than 18,000 teachers, support staff and administrators.

They are hiring a Business Analyst for a 3 month contract to hire position to support the IT department with processing the finances for E-Rate equipment. Day to day: this person will be responsible for balancing the overall budgets for the IT department. There are a couple of budgets within the overall: operational: 8 million; Bonds: 3 million; E-Rate: over 5 years, 26 million. Each fiscal year, this person will meet with the team to go through specifics for that budget season, determining what is expected of the budget and what the spending plan is so the person understands what they need to follow. Typically this person will make a template with PO's that need to be ordered detailing what month the purchasing needs to occur. As this is supporting an IT budget, general knowledge of IT terms/equipment will be helpful when matching up budget codes with specific hardware equipment. It is important this person understands how to follow a budget--get the requisitions created, communicate with purchasing. There is a high volume of purchasing so this person must be organized, self-motivated, and independent. This person will also manage the district's cellular contract (3500 lines)--ordering phones and maintaining a listing of all phones for the district--have to reconcile what that budget looks like. I.E. If a new person comes along in a dept.--reach out to order a phone, work in the template, add the person, calculate the annual cost, and work with purchasing to increase the purchase order.

This person will be trained by and able to lean on members of the Technology Finance team.

Skills:

ticketing system, budgeting, budget management, budget tracking, budget analysis, microsoft office suite, information technology, organizational and interpersonal skills, financial

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Microsoft Office:

Excel: may need to create reports for Cabinet-level; pivot table, and spreadsheets for PO tracking

Google Docs for department documents

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

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