Associate Strategy Analyst

            

GCI's Associate Strategy Analyst will support the Organization’s Strategic Finance function with strong modeling and financial governance to help meet strategic goals as outlined by the Strategy Management Office and Senior Leadership.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT ALL LEVELS:

• Improve and enhance daily operational procedures, tasks, and controls.
• Analyze complex challenging problems and situations leading to optimal solutions. 
• Resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. 
• Maintain consistent methodologies, maintain accuracy, identify discrepancies, and move easily between detail and conceptual levels.

Strategic Planning:

• Support the continuous refinement and application of the Organization’s Strategic Planning process. 
• Work alongside GCI Business, GCI Consumer, and vertical support departments to evaluate business opportunities by providing appropriate assessment models and other analytical support.
• Participate in circular feedback to enhance business case and forecasting methodologies that ensure efficient and effective use of capital and operating resources.
• Assist in the development and implementation of the Organization’s long-range plan, ensuring an alignment of strategic goals and company initiatives. 

Enterprise Governance:

• Ensure business cases are compiled accurately and generate financial metrics in accordance with the Organization’s ROI and Payback requirements.
• Support the Organizations project approval and revision guidelines. 
• Ensure budget compliance through ongoing monitoring of leading indicators for unapproved spend.
• Support compliance with Operating and SOx Financial controls (compliance with GAAP regarding accounting treatment).

Forecasting:

• Compile project forecasts alongside the delivery function through monthly analysis of project finances and thorough conversations with project managers. 
• Develop robust documentation of business events causing variances and communicate significant project changes to leadership so operational adjustments can be made. 

Reporting & Dashboarding:

• Publish annual and multi-year financial reports to provide visibility into the budget and long-range plan, utilizing road mapping, financial planning, and analysis tools. 
• Assist in developing, improving, and maintaining monthly reports & dashboards that provide insight into the Organization’s project portfolio performance. 
• Originate and maintain project-level reports to assist in detailed analysis and status monitoring.
• Support Strategic Finance’s ability to create ad-hoc reports and analysis.

Strategic Planning Support Systems:

• Develop knowledge set around road mapping and financial planning and analysis systems used by the organization.
• Support an integrated process for the management and enhancement of tools in support of enterprise strategic road mapping and financial planning and analysis.
• Support strong financial and operational control over all data models and system processes through use of best practices.
• Strive for innovation using artificial intelligence to increase the value of business intelligence operations.

Team Dynamics:

• Support a pro-active and collaborative team environment that fosters a culture of highly productive, informed decision making.
• Actively seek opportunities to coach and train to further the education & learning of Strategic Finance throughout the Organization.

COMPETENCIES:

• ACCOUNTABILITY- Takes ownership for actions, decisions, and results; openly accepts feedback and demonstrates a willingness to improve.
  • Positive self-starter with ability to take initiative, identify needs, and work independently with minimal direction and supervision.
• BASIC PRINCIPLES - Interacts with people in a way that builds mutual trust, confidence, and respect; adheres to GCI’s Code of Conduct for Employees – the Basic Principles.
• COLLABORATION - Works effectively with others to accomplish common goals and objectives; maintains positive relationships even under difficult circumstances.
  • Must be comfortable and effective working within a geographically distributed organization and across internal departments with personnel at all levels.
  • Ability to maintain and grow a network of contacts to support our priorities.
  • Ability to leverage assets within larger departments to achieve policy goals.
• COMMUNICATION- Conveys thoughts