Digital & IT Senior Financial Analyst

Position Summary

The Digital & IT Senior Financial Analyst partners with Digital and IT leaders to provide high-impact financial planning, analysis, and decision support across technology portfolios, including infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, cloud, and data/analytics. Leading an annual $216M+ budget, this role owns core FP&A processes-budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, cost optimization, and business case evaluation-while ensuring strong financial governance, transparency, and compliance to Parker performance standards. The position enables informed investment decisions through disciplined PO/Capex/AFE controls, targeted Azure spend oversight, and clear reporting, dashboards, and executive review materials.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead end-to-end annual budget, quarterly forecast, and long-range plan cycles for Digital & IT cost centers across global technology spend.
• Deliver monthly budget-to-actual performance reporting, variance analysis, and actionable recommendations to address risks and optimize spending.
• Build and maintain financial dashboards and recurring executive review content, highlighting trends, drivers, and opportunities across IT portfolios.
• Lead financial and operational governance for technology spend, ensuring adherence to internal controls, audit requirements, and governance policies.
• Manage and oversee PO spend and accrual activity (prepaids, taxability) for approximately 650-700 POs annually, ensuring accuracy and timely close-out.
• Manage Capex planning and AFE tracking, including asset replacement planning and lease management coordination.
• Conduct comprehensive IT spend analysis, including targeted cloud (Azure) spend reviews and cost optimization opportunities.
• Facilitate alignment with IT, Finance, Procurement, and other business units for budgets and forecasting.
• Provide allocation and direct spend summaries to support quarterly Group VP reviews and broader governance forums.
• Monitor staff plans, including open positions and related impacts to forecast and plan.
• Deliver ongoing financial training and support to technology stakeholders to drive process consistency, compliance, and informed decision-making.
• Maintain strong relationships with technology peers ensuring operational excellence in their area of influence.

• Operates with minimal supervision; leads complex analyses across multiple complex data sets

• Regularly supports VP-level meetings; translates technical cost drivers not business outcomes.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

• Experience: Five or more years' experience in Finance with a background in Information Technology preferred

• Connects IT investments to business outcomes and enterprise priorities.

• Buids accurate models, challenges assumptions, and drives data-based decisions.

• Influences stakeholders through insight, trust, and clear recommendations.

• Delivers results on time, improves processes, and maintains strong controls.

• Demonstrates a growth mindset with a focus on continuous improvement. Strong desire to learn, adapt to change, embrace challenges and develop process improvements.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities; Presents narratives and executive -ready materials.

• Adept at learning new financial systems.

  
  

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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