IT Cost Analyst

This position focuses on managing IT spend, budgeting, and financial tracking rather than traditional accounting functions. The ideal candidate has a finance or accounting background, understands how IT departments operate, and can confidently partner with IT leaders, project managers, and technical teams to track costs, forecast spend, and support informed decision-making. This is a contract role with potential to convert to full time.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and track IT spend across multiple initiatives, including Authorizations for Expenditure (AFEs) treated as individual IT projects
• Ensure alignment of spend to approved business cases, including CAPEX vs. OPEX determinations
• Track accruals, forecasts, and actuals, tying costs to the correct cost centers
• Partner closely with IT project managers and IT leadership to coordinate timelines, budgets, and financial updates
• Maintain and enhance IT spend reporting and dashboards using Excel and Power BI
• Develop and support automated cost analytics to improve visibility and reduce manual effort
• Perform variance analysis and identify trends, risks, and opportunities for cost optimization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in IT financial analysis, cost analysis, or an IT-adjacent finance role
• Strong understanding of: Budgeting and forecasting, CAPEX and OPEX, Cost tracking and financial controls
• Advanced Excel skills and Power BI experience
• Experience supporting IT departments or IT projects (infrastructure, security, applications, etc.)
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously with a high level of organization
• Comfortable coordinating across multiple stakeholders
• Strong communicator who can translate financial data into clear insights

Nice to Have

• Experience with IT spend reporting tools

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.