IT Planning Analyst

IT Planning Analyst

Job ID: 299303
Location: Kennesaw, Georgia
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

Job Summary

Responsible for analyzing, modeling, and reporting on IT service-based cost allocation, chargeback, and cost recovery to support transparent, consistent, and compliant IT financial planning within University Information Technology Services (UITS). Serves as the steward of IT Financial Management (ITFM) data, models, and methodologies, ensuring that IT cost information is accurate, well-documented, and decision-ready, to enable leadership, service owners, and research partners to understand how IT costs are incurred, allocated, and recovered. Focuses on IT financial analysis, cost modeling, data governance, and reporting. Delivers data-driven insights and decision support that enable division leadership to set priorities, allocate resources, and improve performance.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Analyzes and supports IT cost recovery and chargeback models, including costs allocated to research programs, sponsored projects, and externally funded activities, using clearly defined and repeatable allocation methodologies
2. Produces recurring and ad hoc reports supporting grant proposals, post award analysis, and ongoing IT cost recovery tracking, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and appropriate documentation
3. Documents cost drivers, allocation methodologies, assumptions, and calculation logic used in ITFM cost models, maintaining well organized and audit ready supporting materials
4. Analyzes IT operating and capital expenditures to identify cost trends, drivers, and recovery opportunities across services and platforms
5. Performs variance analysis comparing budgeted and actual costs at the service, platform, and cost pool level, and summarize findings for non financial stakeholders
6. Builds, maintains, and enhances department cost models allocating costs across services, infrastructure components, and funding sources, ensuring models are transparent, explainable, and repeatable
7. Develops dashboards and reports presenting IT service costs, allocation outcomes, and recovery metrics for leadership and stakeholders, using business intelligence tools to support data driven decision making
8. Integrates and reconciles data from ITSM, asset management, HR, and financial systems to support accurate and traceable analysis, resolving data gaps, inconsistencies, or alignment issues as needed
9. Translates complex cost data into clear, non technical insights to support decision making related to service pricing, optimization, and resource planning
10. Supports audit readiness through well documented, consistent, and repeatable cost modeling and reporting methodologies, including adherence to established governance and documentation standards