Digital Budget Manager

Responsibilities - Lead annual and multi-year budget planning for digital departments and projects. - Establish budget baselines and track approved, committed, actual, and forecasted spend. - Monitor IT project, digital product, and service budgets against delivery milestones. - Analyze budget variances and recommend corrective actions. - Manage budget changes, transfers, reallocations, and financial change requests. - Develop financial models, forecasts, scenarios, and dashboards using Excel. - Conduct market research, benchmarking, and pricing analysis. - Identify cost-saving and optimization opportunities across licenses, cloud, infrastructure, services, and contracts. - Review project cost estimates and assess financial feasibility of new initiatives. - Identify financial risks, budget overruns, and future commitments. - Coordinate with Finance, Procurement, Contracts, and Digital teams. - Provide executive-level financial reports and recommendations. Requirements - BSc. degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, MIS, IT, Engineering, or related field. - 7+ Yrs. of experience in budget management, financial planning, portfolio/project management, preferably within IT/Digital environments. - Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, financial modeling, and Power Query; Power Pivot is an advantage. - Strong understanding of IT project lifecycle and technology cost models. - Experience analyzing licensing, subscriptions, cloud, development, operations, maintenance, and technical contracts. - Strong skills in forecasting, scenario analysis, benchmarking, and cost optimization. - Excellent analytical and financial skills with strong attention to detail. - Ability to challenge costs, identify efficiencies, and provide data-driven recommendations. - Strong communication, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills. - Professional certifications in Finance, Project Management, or IT are an advantage.