1.     Holds Primary responsibility for development, management and tracking of all IT capital and expense budgets, including creation, forecasting, and accruals. 

2.     Identify, quantify and assist in implementing expense savings ideas.

3.     Serves as financial point person in IT for all functional and operational IT teams.       

4.     Reviews and validates all invoices from our Outsource providers or other 3^rd parties.                                                                                                                                           

5.     Develops, publishes and maintains monthly forecasts for the Belk IT Organization as a whole.                                                                                                                                        

6.     Researches hardware and software maintenance contracts as they come up for renewal to ensure that licenses are appropriate and that terms and conditions are optimized for Belk.                                                                                              

7.     Collaborates with Applications Development Directors, Managers, Outsource Suppliers and consultants on contracts for new systems solution hardware, software, and services.                                                                                                                                                                

8.     Creates purchase order requisitions and insures that any created outside of IT are consistent with approved budget items.

9.     Reviews and advises IT teams in the creation of project cost/benefit worksheets and ITRB scorecards.

·         Four-year degree

·         6+ years experience as financial analyst in IT-related area (preferably retail)

·         Demonstrated knowledge of capital and expense budgeting, software licensing, maintenance contracts, and contract language.

·         Strong written and verbal communication, organization and time management skills

·         Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills          

·         Ability to work well within a team environment as well as independently as the situation demands

·         Ability to produce complex modeling and analysis using Excel spreadsheets using Pivot tables, vLookups etc.

·         Familiarity with Excel Macros is desired.           

·         Knowledge of Hyperion Planning, Essbase, and Lawson financials is desired