Planning & Operations Analyst, Business Technology- Saskatchewan, Canada

Responsibilities include:

• Works with the Business Technology leaders to plan, execute and track department goals and measurements are being achieved. Assists in Participates in and contributes to annual processes including Department budgeting, workforce planning and goal setting. 
• Assist with portfolio summary status and dashboards and issue/risk tracking. 
• Quarterly financial reporting through dashboards and other reporting methods, ensuring transparency in managing towards plan. 
• Create Total Cost of Ownership summary documents for leaders to make technology and financial decisions by gathering a range of inputs across stakeholders. 
• Contributes to programs that continuously improve the Department’s processes, tools, approaches, etc. Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and streamlines how we operate through smart use of process, self-service, and positive deflection. 
• Helps shape, plan and participates in innovation programs through to value realization as part of a team. 
• Partners with cross functional stakeholders within BizTech and the company (Security, Legal, Procurement, Finance, etc.) to manage software requests and help facilitate the technology investment board monthly forum 
• Helps communicate and market Business Technology accomplishments internally. 
• Work with leadership to create standards and common frameworks to promote best practices and knowledge sharing across teams and the department. 
• Assists with vendor quarterly business reviews and tracking various performance metrics. 
• Assist in creating and deploying NPS surveys across various stakeholder groups and summarizing data with recommendations. 
• Work closely with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team and leadership to help generate monthly and quarterly forecasts across software, services and headcount. 

Qualifications

• In order to adequately perform the responsibilities of this position, the individual must have: 
• Strong planning, organization and leadership skills, including the ability to communicate approaches, follow through on commitments and execute to completion with high quality. 
• Can work in a fast-paced environment with a virtually distributed team. 
• Exceptional skills in assessing, summarizing, and presenting priorities and decision-points to assist leadership in effective and efficient decision-making. 
• Strong influencing, collaboration, persuasion, and consensus-building skills. 
• Ability to interface effectively with all levels of a department and build relationships across disciplines. 
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize data and information to provide a high-level view which is accessible to a range of audiences. 
• Effective problem solving by seeing the big picture and being able to understand the details to navigate towards successful results. 
• Asks clarifying questions and balances across competing priorities. 
• Contributes to a world-class team and collaborative culture. 
• Experience with financial operations support in a technical environment including financial reporting. 

Education and Experience

• 3- 5+ years of experience in Business operations and/or experience in the following areas: Financial Management Reporting, Strategic Planning, Portfolio/Program Management and Communications. 
• Bachelor’s Degree, recommended  


Skills & Abilities: 
• Data / requirements gathering and analysis 
• Trend and pattern analysis 
• Strategic and tactical plan development 
• Meeting facilitation and executive presentations 
• Influencing and ability to align individuals 
• Risk and issue management 
• KPI identification and measurement 
• Confidently interact with senior stakeholders.