[Hiring] Technical Analyst @Pyramid Consulting

Role Description

Immediate need for a talented Technical Analyst/Apptio administrator. This is a 12 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Bethlehem PA (Remote).

The Technical Analyst serves as a strategic financial technology partner leading the implementation of cost, budget, and forecasting models while architecting enterprise integrations and data solutions that support financial transparency and strategic planning.

• Serves as a trusted advisor to senior Finance and Technology leadership, transforming complex organizational data into actionable insights tailored to diverse, cross-functional stakeholders.
• Owns the end-to-end Apptio platform, including:
  • Cost allocation design
  • Data governance
  • Report development
  • Enterprise integrations
  • Downstream data delivery
  • Automation strategy
• Eliminates manual processes, autonomously creates solutions, employs scripting, and ensures the integrity of financial reporting outputs across Technology systems.
• Requires a unique combination of:
  • Financial acumen
  • Software engineering expertise
  • Independent project management
  • Effective communication across diverse stakeholder groups
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Solutions-oriented mindset
  • Proactive problem-solving skills
• Thrives in a deadline-driven environment, balancing multiple priorities simultaneously while consistently delivering accurate, reconciled reporting outputs within non-negotiable reporting deadlines.
• Administers the Apptio financial model, ensuring calculated outputs are accurate, delivered on time, aligned to business objectives, and effectively shared across the organization.
• Serves as the critical link between Finance and Technology, translating complex reporting requirements into scalable technical solutions focused on data, automation, and integration.
• Drives enhancements of labor expense transparency by continuously advancing Apptio’s transformation of general ledger labor costs into measurable project investments and distinctions between run-the-business and change-the-business activities.
• Develops Apptio TBM Studio, including platform configuration, data uploads, allocation methodologies, formulas, metrics, reports, SFTP and API integrations, and user management.
• Establishes operational excellence by ensuring timely inbound data processing, trusted outbound reporting, and proactive management of upstream dependencies to consistently meet deadlines.
• Owns the integrity and consistency of Apptio reporting outputs across enterprise systems, leveraging automation and governance controls to eliminate manual effort, accelerate delivery timelines, and strengthen stakeholder confidence.
• Leads troubleshooting efforts by pinpointing granular data elements, tracing calculations to their source, and articulating how system configurations influence reporting outcomes.
• Designs and continuously improves month-end close processes, eliminating manual inputs, reducing dependencies, consolidating disparate data sources, and accelerating turnaround timelines.
• Develops detailed analytical views and ad hoc analyses using Excel pivot tables to further investigate reporting, answer complex stakeholder inquiries, and identify data or configuration enhancements.
• Assesses performance and scalability trade-offs when designing data solutions, ensuring appropriate primary key granularity and payload sizing to support efficient processing and reporting.
• Configures Apptio DataLink to create automation between Oracle, ServiceNow, Databricks, Tableau, Axway SFTP, and REST APIs.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as an Apptio administrator, developer, and analyst with proven success designing and implementing Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions that unlock data-driven insights and enhance financial transparency.
• Deep understanding of TBM principles, cost allocation methodologies, service costing, chargeback models, labor modeling techniques, IT Planning, ATUM reporting, and Apptio best practices.
• Demonstrated understanding of finance, accounting, and FP&A principles, including cost center and account hierarchies, expense management, accrual accounting, and planning cycles.
• Strong software engineering background, including scripting, database development, API integrations, data modeling, automation, and enterprise system interoperability.
• Exceptional ability to translate complex business and reporting requirements into scalable solutions with trusted, timely, and impactful data.
• Effective communicator with proven expertise architecting Apptio integrations, leading discussions with Technology teams to design automated data exchange and effectively share financial outputs.
• Demonstrated success operating with a high degree of autonomy, independently navigating ambiguity and complex business challenges while delivering results with minimal guidance and direction.

Benefits

• Pay Range: $45 - $50/hour
• Employee benefits include, but are not limited to:
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid sick leave (depending on work location)

Company Description

Our client is a leading IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.