The American Heart Association (AHA) has an excellent opportunity for a VENDOR RELATIONS MANAGER at our office located in Dallas, TX.
In this role, you will responsible for planning, analysis and cost/financial modeling of technology department budget. You will be responsible for developing and implementing financial controls and processes for technology teams. You will also be performing financial analysis and cost savings models for vendor contracts, managing vendor relationships and evaluating technology costs and impact of technology purchases outside of the department to leverage economies of scale. You will be facilitating procurement and acts as liaison between Financial Reporting team and Business Technology budget managers as well as the Technology Leadership Team.
- Perform financial modeling and analysis for Technology budgets and projected spend to validate effective and efficient use of technology budget.
- Analyze costs and facilitate vendor negotiations to optimize potential savings in high risk, strategic technology contracts. Develop models and implement financial controls while collaborating with all parties to ensure vendors meet cost parameters.
- Manage the Technology Administrative Support team to ensure responsibilities are timely and accurately performed to include contract facilitation, purchase order generation, invoice payment as well as general admin support functions for the Business Technology Vice Presidents as requested.
- Analyze Business Technology financial activities on a monthly basis. Prepare qualitative analysis of technology spend against budget for review by the EVP Technology and Business Technology Leadership Team with recommendation to reflect effective and efficient use of available budget.
- Facilitate and manage the Business Technology budgets in coordination with Business Technology Leadership Team with the appropriate guidance from the Finance Team. Duties include: preparation of annual budget instructions and templates, facilitation of budget training and communication, and collaborating with Financial Reporting team on revisions to ensure accuracy.
- Provide high quality, timely financial support to the Business Technology Leadership Team. With guidance from the Finance team, act as a consultant and liaison to Business Technology EVP, Vice Presidents, Directors, and Managers to improve financial reporting practices and procedures.
- Manage cost savings/budget alignment projects and make recommendations for approval through Business Technology leadership team. Develop plans for implementation of recommendations.
- Develop continuous process improvement strategies to achieve efficiencies and cost savings.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in related field
- Knowledge of and experience in the principles and practices of accounting, financial reporting, analysis and budgeting and general business administration
- Knowledge of the principles and practices of planning, budgeting, projecting, month-end close and variance analysis. Ability to analyze financial data and interpret into narrative form
- Functional experience with vendor negotiations and management
- Functional experience with analytics tools to include Tableau, Power BI or Power Query
- Excellent in oral and written communications. Ability to communicate with all levels of AHA staff. Ability to communicate to technology and non-technology staff
- Effective time management and organization skills
- Experienced in interpreting accounting rules and applying the rules to AHAs business practices and documenting results accordingly
- Experience with continuous process improvement
- Advanced MS Excel Experience to include Pivot Tables
- Skilled in use of automated accounting packages.
- Experience supporting operations for Information Technology department.
- Experience with developing and managing process (and process change) documentation.
- Experience communicating to technology and non-technology groups.
- Experience working in a fast paced, dynamic environment. Excellent in working against deadlines to provide end product.
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