Job Description: IT Finance Analyst / Manager

Location: Plano, Texas
Job Title: IT Finance Analyst / IT Finance Manager

Job Summary

PepsiCo is seeking an experienced IT Finance Analyst / Manager to support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cost management for IT infrastructure, data center operations, and IT hardware investments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial analysis and experience managing technology-related expenses, capital investments, vendor costs, and infrastructure budgets.

This role will partner with IT infrastructure, data center operations, procurement, and finance teams to provide financial insights, improve cost efficiency, and support strategic business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for IT infrastructure and data center operations.

• Track and analyze IT hardware expenses, including servers, storage, networking equipment, and related infrastructure investments.

• Monitor capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX) across IT infrastructure projects.

• Analyze data center costs, hardware lifecycle expenses, maintenance contracts, software licensing, and vendor spending.

• Develop financial reports, dashboards, and management presentations to communicate financial performance and cost trends.

• Partner with IT, procurement, and business stakeholders to evaluate infrastructure investments and identify cost optimization opportunities.

• Support financial business cases, return on investment (ROI) analysis, total cost of ownership (TCO), and investment justification.

• Review purchase orders, invoices, contracts, and vendor agreements to ensure accurate financial tracking and budget compliance.

• Support financial planning for data center upgrades, hardware refreshes, infrastructure expansion, and technology transformation initiatives.

• Identify financial risks, cost variances, and opportunities to improve operational efficiency.

• Ensure accurate financial reporting, forecasting, and compliance with corporate finance policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Relevant experience in IT finance, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), technology cost management, or infrastructure finance.

• Experience supporting data center operations, IT hardware, or IT infrastructure financial management.

• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and variance analysis.

• Experience with CAPEX, OPEX, cost allocation, depreciation, and technology investment analysis.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting tools.

• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a large enterprise IT or corporate finance environment.

• Familiarity with data center infrastructure, servers, storage, networking, cloud infrastructure, and hardware procurement.

• Experience with SAP, Oracle Financials, Power BI, or similar financial systems and reporting tools.

• Knowledge of IT Financial Management (ITFM), Technology Business Management (TBM), or FinOps principles.

• Experience with vendor management, infrastructure contracts, and IT procurement processes.

• Ability to work collaboratively with finance, IT operations, procurement, and senior management teams.