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Job Description
Live Assets | IT Staffing Solutions is hiring an IT Consultant – Service Transformation for one of its clients. This role plays a key part in driving strategic planning, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring strong financial stewardship across both IT and business functions, including technology evaluation, contract review, and support of grants and budget analysis.
Responsibilities
- Research and evaluate latest technology trends to determine ideal options for hardware/software/application requirements and to maximize value for funds spent on IT goods/services.
- Document technical recommendations and provide technical advice and guidance to management, operations, and project team members.
- Evaluate current services and recommend remedial actions where required and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams on ideal development and support path.
- Review services and technology currently used by business area and assess their impact on the operational environment, giving recommendations for remediation and for cost savings.
- Conduct comprehensive analysis on contract spend and develop contract-level budget justifications.
- Prepare optimized contractual spend plans to improve financial performance.
- Create and maintain comprehensive zero-based budgeting reports.
- Communicate operational guidelines and policies to the clients.
- Apply and interpret how the operational guidelines enhance the department’s way of doing business.
- Assist in developing project plans, schedules, and estimates.
- Make recommendations to project team members pertaining to issues, risks, and client satisfaction and ensure change management processes are followed.
- Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work as required.
- Support grants-related data collection and perform outcomes analysis as required.
Necessary Skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure, AWS Solutions Architect, Oracle Certified Professional, PMP, ITIL) are highly desirable.
- 5+ years’ experience in IT roles supporting enterprise-level finance, budgeting, or contract management environments, including at least 3 years in a lead or senior technical role.
- Deep understanding of business intelligence/data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), data warehousing, data modeling, and experience with scripting or automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell, ETL tools).
- Strong knowledge of APIs, middleware, and system interoperability standards (JSON, XML, REST/SOAP, etc.).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), platform migrations, and SaaS financial applications.
- Demonstrated success in designing and executing system integrations across finance, procurement, and analytics platforms—ideally in support of Zero-Based Budgeting initiatives.
- Direct experience leading technical delivery or digital transformation projects within a finance or procurement context.
- Expert-level skills in architecture, configuration, and optimization of financial planning and contract management systems.
- Experience with process automation, workflow management, and supporting digital adoption initiatives organization wide.
- Ability to lead complex technical projects, including requirements gathering, solution design, system integration, user acceptance testing, and change management.
- Experience mentoring, training, and supporting IT and business teams in the adoption of new digital tools and best practices.
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