Senior TBM Analytics Analyst

Company: The Standard
Location: Vancouver
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

At The Standard, you'll join a team focused on putting our customers first.

Our continued success is driven by a high-performance culture. We're looking for people who are collaborative, accountable, creative, agile and are driven by a passion for doing what's right - across the company and in our local communities.

We offer a caring culture where you can make a real difference, every day.

Ready to reach your highest potential? Let's work together.

The Opportunity

Apply your strong technology and financial management expertise to the deployment of Apptio's Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions at The Standard. With your knowledge and skills, you'll position company leadership and business owners to understand the ROI in investing in TBM.

You'll come with the ability to develop and maintain strong business partner relationships and will foster a culture of data-driven decision making. You'll also play an important role in driving the continuous improvement of data modeling and allocation methodologies while leading quality management initiatives with data owners.

The role will give you the opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of Apptio configurations, models, and data.

What You'll Do

* Establish strong relationships with IT and business leaders; promote the open dialogue necessary to understand the Total Cost of Ownership of IT services, and opportunities to leverage TBM practices and optimize decision making.
* Effectively communicate operational insights to management, including preparing project updates to ensure timely identification and understanding of critical issues impacting the TBM system.
* Fully understand the cost allocation logic and methodology to be able to implement model enhancement per improved data, and trouble-shoot model fallout due to invalid data or logic conflict that is associated with evolved situations.
* Prepare data for model consumption, including data mining and cleaning, data automation and validation.
* Support the system release management process and provide user support where necessary.
* Support documentation of functional and business requirements and rapidly translate that information into a working set of operational and financial models, dashboards, and reports.
* Import, transform, and rationalize data from financial systems of records, business data lakes and IT Systems. These include current and future state ERP systems (Lawson, Workday ERP and HCM), ServiceNow, Azure, AWS, SolarWinds, Nutanix, VMware, AppDynamics, and various Microsoft provisioning and monitoring systems.
* Leverage platform capabilities to educate IT leaders and increase Business awareness and understanding of IT performance from a value perspective. This includes development of productivity metrics to support adoption of IT4IT Reference Architecture.

The Behaviors, Skills and Experience You'll Need

* Education: Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Accounting, Information Systems, Finance or Business Analytics. An advanced degree in a quantitative field is preferred.
* Experience: 3 - 7 years progressive Finance, Accounting Information Systems, BI or the equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience. Preferred: Experience at a top-tier consulting, financial services or a technology-driven company is preferred. Prior experience with TBM or CIO advisory work.
* Professional certifications preferred: Elite or Recognized Technology Business Management Analyst (ETBMA or RTBMA) or TBMA; MCSE in Data Management & Analytics; ITIL or IT4IT a plus.
* Collaboration: Be a strong team player; open to learning/sharing ideas; work efficiently and effectively with staff across a collaborative organization.
* Critical Thinking: Have a strong bias towards curiosity and problem solving with the ability to synthesize an array of inputs into coherent solution strategies.
* Communication & Coordination: Strong project ownership and organizational skills - self-directed and capable of managing collaboratively; express ideas clearly and persuasively in oral, written, and presentation forms. Strong ability to influence.
* Knowledge of IT Services and Financial Management Practices such as budgeting, cost allocations, capital and operating expense handling, and product or capability-driven funding models. Understanding of IT infrastructure domains and application development from prior experience is essential.
* Software Skills: Advanced level proficiency in Microsoft Excel, data-warehouse analysis (SQL Server, SS Management Studio, TOAD), VBA Macros, JavaScript, Python, PowerPoint and Power BI. Advanced proficiency with Apptio and ServiceNow is preferred.

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Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, drug test, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.

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