Senior WAN Financial & Program Analyst – Network Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Oversee financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for global WAN and carrier services.

• Assist with WAN financial governance, which includes managing purchase orders, tracking invoices, reconciling budgets, forecasting, and overseeing supplier expenditures.

• Create and sustain financial reports, cost-allocation models, operational dashboards, and presentations for executive levels.

• Evaluate costs, commitments, and financial trends to pinpoint risks, variances, and opportunities for optimization.

• Provide stakeholders with insights into budgets, supplier expenditures, financial commitments, and forecasting assumptions.

• Collaborate with Finance and Network Services teams to enhance financial controls and refine reporting processes.

• Work in partnership with Finance, Supply Chain, Network Engineering, and Operations to oversee supplier budgets, contracts, and performance metrics.

• Assist with the renewal of carrier contracts, planning for circuit demand, and commercial endeavors.

• Monitor WAN circuit inventory, service delivery, financial commitments, and supplier performance.

• Coordinate with carriers and service providers to promote service enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Facilitate stakeholder communications and supplier coordination during significant network service disruptions.

• Identify opportunities for enhancing cost efficiency, service quality, and supplier accountability.

• Support global WAN transformation projects through financial analysis, supplier coordination, project tracking, and executive-level reporting.

• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives that involve Network Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, and external suppliers.

• Monitor deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions that may influence financial or program outcomes.

• Communicate the status of initiatives, financial implications, supplier actions, and key milestones.

• Enhance processes related to circuit demand planning, inventory tracking, financial reporting, and supplier coordination.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Technology Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline—or equivalent relevant experience.

• Over 5 years of experience in financial management, supplier management, contract administration, technology program management, or a similar role.

• Proficient in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reconciliation, and reporting.

• Experience in coordinating cross-functional initiatives that involve multiple stakeholders.

• Proven track record in managing or tracking supplier performance, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, or financial commitments.

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a global context.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the capability to present information to senior leadership.

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and experience handling large datasets.

• Solid analytical and financial planning capabilities.

• Experience in generating financial reports, dashboards, cost models, or executive presentations.

• Familiarity with coordinating across Finance, Supply Chain, technical teams, operations, and external suppliers.

• Ability to organize and interpret complex financial, supplier, inventory, and service delivery data.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, especially in working with substantial data sets.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• This role does not provide visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate coverage for medical, dental, and prescription drugs.

• Flexible family care options.

• Parental leave along with new parent ramp-up programs.

• Subsidized back-up childcare services.

• Vehicle discount program available for employees and their family members.

• Management lease options.

• Tuition assistance programs.

• Access to employee resource groups.

• Paid time off dedicated to individual and team community service activities.

• Generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

• Paid time off benefits.

• Option to buy additional vacation time.