The Senior Technology Advisor, Asset Management reports to the Director, Service Delivery and is responsible for hardware, software, and major systems and services asset life-cycle management throughout the IT organization.
Functional/Technical Responsibilities
- Responsible for the life cycle planning of IT costs through asset selection, operation, refresh, migration, optimization, retirement and disposal.
- Define and implement the necessary processes and governance for everyone at AARP who manages, uses, or accesses IT systems, or is involved in IT asset life cycle management.
- Performs financial and operational analysis of software and hardware assets for IT/Systems.
- Coordinates the gathering of asset data for both System's capital and expense budgets
- Create policies and procedures for vendor asset management team(s)
- Develop strategy for implementation of Asset Management and Configuration Management integration
- Responsible for all software license, maintenance and contractual agreements to insure company compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and governance requirements.
- Provides financial and operational reporting to Senior Management.
Areas of Responsibility:
The Senior Technology Advisor, Asset Management requires the ability to balance tactical day-to-day initiatives with strategic initiatives. This position requires a degree of autonomy related to working across ITS domains, within AARP business units, and with vendors, outsourcing partners and others.
- Provide analysis of budget transactions for the major IT expenses within the organization.
- Develop and improve processes for asset additions, transfers and disposals in the Asset System.
- Develop and enhance methodologies and practices for all IT asset life-cycle management in accordance with best practice as part of a continuous improvement program
- Analyze software discovery data and configure/create discovery tools/scripts.
- Implement and manage IT life-cycle management framework and program for status reporting, metrics and benchmarks.
- Track and analyze all acquisition and entitlement costs to ensure accurate transaction accounting for all IT assets in accordance with copyright and right-to-use contractual agreements.
- Maintains updates / changes to system asset expense and budgets throughout the year to keep in alignment with the projected figures.
- Coordinate all IT asset management activity across the organization to enable business collaboration that reduces the life-cycle and risk of
- all IT assets deployed in the enterprise
- Evaluate, select, implement, and monitor IT asset management tools to report and audit asset entitlements across the organization.
- Integrate IT asset management tools and systems with financial systems for complete life-cycle management and financial tracking of IT assets.
- Consult with appropriate vendor and procurement managers, and business unit stakeholders to manage the response to software vendor audits or software validation request.
- Maintain a definitive database of record of all IT assets in support of organization procurement activity for volume purchase programs.
Educational Background:
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting or Finance
Skills/Experience:
Desired Education
- Certification as a Certified Software Asset Manager (CSAM) and/or as a Certified IT Asset Manager (CITAM)
- ITIL Certification
Required Competencies
- Analytical and research
- Budgeting skills
- Compile statistics, prepare forecasts and recommendations
- Cost analysis projections
- Inventory controls
- Develop installation policies and procedure
- Software license management
- Service delivery
- IT Asset Management process
Candidate Qualifications:
- 8+ years IT Asset management experience
- Software Asset Management Lifecycle experience
- ITAM and Applications management
- Writing of policies and procedures
- Knowledge of complex vendor software contracts, licensing terminology, and software licensing rights, especially for major software vendors (IBM, Oracle, CA, Microsoft).
- Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.
- Knowledgeable of network, server and PC hardware at a component level
- Knowledgeable of software licensing
- Advanced interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with internal contacts and vendors.
- Detail Orientated
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated leadership skills.
Compensation/Benefits:
AARP offers competitive benefits with a 401K, 100% company funded pension plan, health, dental, vision and life insurance, STD/LTD, paid vacation and sick, and other benefits.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 29 2018
Active Until:
Aug 29 2018
Hiring Organization:
AARP
industry:
Nonprofit