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This role will serve as a key connector between business owners, vendors, procurement, accounting, and finance, ensuring that vendor commitments, forecasts, actuals, accruals, and program-level spend are accurate, transparent, and aligned to business priorities.\nThe ideal candidate brings strong business acumen, hands-on spend management experience, and the ability to translate operational activity into clear financial insight. This role requires comfort operating in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, managing ambiguity, influencing stakeholders, and driving timely decision-making.\nResponsibilities\nServe as the primary business operations contact for assigned vendors, ensuring clear ownership, timely follow-up, and disciplined issue resolution.\n\nPartner with procurement and business stakeholders to support vendor onboarding, contract/SOW tracking, purchase order readiness, and invoice governance.\n\nDevelop and maintain rolling forecasts that reflect known commitments, timing shifts, risks, opportunities, and business priorities.\n\nCompare forecasted spend to actuals, explain variances, and identify overrun or underspend risks early.\n\nPrepare concise spend summaries, bridges, and leadership-ready reporting to support monthly business reviews, close activities, and planning cycles.\n\nStrengthen spend governance through standardized tracking, documentation, reconciliations, and process improvements.\n\nManage monthly and quarterly accrual inputs by validating vendor activity, service periods, open commitments, and invoice status.\n\nPartner with finance and accounting to ensure accruals are accurate, timely, supportable, and aligned with policy.\n\nReconcile purchase orders, invoices, actuals, and forecast assumptions to prevent missed, duplicated, or misclassified spend.\n\nAct as a trusted partner to finance, business owners, procurement, and program leaders on spend planning, prioritization, and decision support.\n\nTranslate operational updates into financial impacts, including forecast changes, accrual needs, funding gaps, and mitigation options.\n\nProvide proactive insights on spend trends, vendor exposure, cost optimization opportunities, and process gaps.\n\nSupport annual budget, long-term planning, quarterly outlook, monthly forecast, and ad hoc financial analysis activities.\n\nEducation & Experience Recommended\nFour-year or graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Operations, or a related discipline; or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.\n\nTypically has 7-10+ years of experience in business analysis, finance operations, FP&A, vendor management, procurement operations, program operations, or spend management.\n\nDemonstrated experience managing vendor spend, forecasts, accruals, purchase orders, invoices, and budget-to-actual reporting across multiple programs.\n\nExperience partnering with finance, accounting, procurement, and senior business stakeholders in a matrixed organization.\n\nKnowledge & Skills\nAdvanced financial analysis, forecasting, variance analysis, and spend reconciliation skills.\n\nStrong understanding of accrual concepts, month-end close activities, purchase order lifecycle, invoice processing, and financial controls.\n\nStrong vendor management discipline, including relationship management, issue tracking, contract/SOW awareness, and governance routines.\n\nAdvanced Excel skills; experience with Power BI, SAP, Workday, Anaplan, SmartSheet, or similar reporting and financial systems preferred.\n\nAbility to build executive-ready reporting, communicate complex financial topics clearly, and influence decisions without direct authority.\n\nHigh attention to detail, strong ownership, and ability to manage competing priorities across tight close and forecast timelines.\n\nComfortable working with incomplete inputs, shifting assumptions, and cross-functional stakeholders.\n\nEffective Communication\n\nResults Orientation\n\nLearning Agility\n\nDigital Fluency\n\nCustomer Centricity\n\nStakeholder Influence\n\nFinancial Discipline\n\nDisclaimer\nThis job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. 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