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High Springs, Fl, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Oversee a $371M budget with direct management of $200M in spend for CY24 within 5% of forecast.Collaborated in strategic IT discussions and monthly financial reviews, resulting in $40 million in IT savings for CY23.Perform strategic labor analysis aligning IT resources with corporate objectives, resulting in optimized allocation and cost efficiencies.Act as a liaison between the business and the Technology Business Management Office to drive Apptio model enhancements, resulting inoptimized cost transparency for services and applications.Partnered with procurement to bring visibility to $40 million worth of CY24 contracts for renewal, ensuring correct data through a comparison of forecasted figures and procurement analysis.Implemented an headcount approval process for the IT organization, improving transparency and operational efficiency for over 50 CY23 backfill requests and off-cycle compensation adjustments.Developed a workforce planning scenario calculator and collaborated with the leadership team to devise a strategic hiring plan, ensuring alignment with financial objectives.

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Create and publish standard and ad hoc reports for managers, IT executives, and business partners.Perform and create data pulls into Apptio using SQL and SQL Server Integration Services. Facilitate discussions with data owners to create allocations and improve the data within the tools data model.Drive discussions with the business to understand their total cost of ownership for applications and services.Knowledge of financial management processes including first incurred ledger, forecast, plan, capital and operating expenses.Automate processes for central planning group including strategic workforce planning and first incurred ledger view.Direct work of 8 people as Scrum Master.Create and support process to identify headcount contractors and employees that is used in people dashboards and ExxonMobil IT stewardship and planning.Develop process to calculate workforce forecast cost

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Assisted ETL and SSIS developers with specifications, documentation, development and support of processes to transform and load data into the IT Data Warehouse.Created Tableau and Power BI reports for customers.Implemented processes for monitoring, documenting, and validating data loads within the IT Data Warehouse.Designed and developed queries and views for customers based on their needs. Conducted troubleshooting for the IT Data Warehouse, Tableau dashboards, and Power BI reports.

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Provided refinery IT support utilizing proper PPE and safety procedures.Set up computers and installed software such as SAP, OnBase, Adobe Acrobat XI, MS Office.Supported and maintained computers, monitors, printers, IP Phones and other peripherals.Provided remote desktop support using Goverlan or Bomgar Representative Console.Assisted systems engineering managers with networking and setting up refinery control room. Used Track It! to log, track, and document incidents to provide customer support and satisfaction.