Business Planning Functional Analyst, IT Governance & Planning, IS&T

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. IS&T is seeking a Business Planning Functional Analyst to translate complex business problems into scalable products, processes, and data models. You’ll work in sprint cycles with teams across the U.S. and India to define requirements and deliverables that enable informed decision making.

You will analyze budgets, forecasts, and TCO, build analytical models, and partner with Finance, Procurement, and IT Operations to align people and dollars with priorities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business analysis, financial analysis, product management, consulting, or related fields.
• Experience building analytical models or reports from large datasets.
• Experience preparing budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variance reports (OPEX and CAPEX).
• Experience analyzing large datasets in Excel or BI tools to identify trends and data quality issues.
• Experience translating business needs into written product or system requirements (user stories or specs).
• Experience working across Finance, Engineering, Procurement, or IT Operations in a large organization.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, information systems, computer science, or engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own product areas within the Business Planning application suite, from problem definition through requirements, testing, release, and adoption
• Translate business needs into product requirements, data requirements, and measurable outcomes
• Analyze large, complex financial and operational datasets to find patterns, gaps, and root causes
• Build and refine analytical models for budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and TCO
• Support workforce capacity and demand planning by connecting labor costs, utilization, and project priorities
• Reconcile procurement and financial data across SOWs, purchase requests, purchase orders, receipts, and invoices
• Manage a product backlog with cross-functional partners, weighing competing requests against business value
• Present analysis and recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leaders

Skills

Business analysis

Financial analysis

Product management

Consulting

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance

Bachelor's degree in economics

Bachelor's degree in information systems

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Superset

Broadcom Clarity

Job description

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It's Apple's central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

Business Operations, Employee Engagement, and Strategy is part of IS&T and shapes the strategy, operations, and culture of IS&T. The team oversees business planning, IS&T's partnership strategy across Apple, and the technology tools that support the organization's day-to-day operations. This team also leads IS&T's enterprise generative AI strategy and manages compliance across systems. Through its communications and employee programs, it champions the growth, inclusion, and development of everyone in IS&T and drives the standard for IS&T brand and product communications across Apple.

Description

Our team in Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) builds and runs the planning capabilities behind how Apple invests in technology, including portfolio management, financial planning, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), workforce capacity, and procurement. Leaders rely on our products and data to follow ideas from proposal to funded project, understand what technology costs, and align people and dollars with priorities. As a Business Planning Functional Analyst, you'll turn complex business problems into products, processes, and data models that scale. You'll work in sprint-based product cycles with teammates across the U.S. and India.

We're looking for a business-minded problem solver with strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and product instincts. This is not a reporting or project administration role. You'll own outcomes for product areas within our business planning suite, from understanding the underlying problem to shipping a solution people adopt. You work directly with data instead of waiting on others, you understand how finance, procurement, workforce, and technology connect, and you think through downstream impact before making a change. You don't need deep experience in every discipline we cover, but you bring a strong foundation in a few and learn the rest quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own product areas within the Business Planning application suite, from problem definition through requirements, testing, release, and adoption
• Translate business needs into product requirements, data requirements, and measurable outcomes
• Analyze large, complex financial and operational datasets to find patterns, gaps, and root causes
• Build and refine analytical models for budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and TCO
• Support workforce capacity and demand planning by connecting labor costs, utilization, and project priorities
• Reconcile procurement and financial data across SOWs, purchase requests, purchase orders, receipts, and invoices
• Manage a product backlog with cross-functional partners, weighing competing requests against business value
• Present analysis and recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leaders

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business analysis, financial analysis, product management, consulting, or a related field
• Experience building analytical models or reports from large, complex, or incomplete datasets
• Experience preparing or analyzing budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variance reports, including OPEX and CAPEX
• Experience analyzing large datasets in Excel or BI tools to find trends, variances, and data quality issues
• Experience translating business needs into written product or system requirements, such as user stories or functional specifications
• Experience working across Finance, Engineering, Procurement, or IT Operations in a large organization
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to work in two or more of the following: portfolio management, TCO and cost allocation, workforce planning, procurement, or hierarchy management
• Background in FP&A, IT financial management, management consulting, business intelligence, or enterprise product management
• Experience building dashboards in BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Superset
• Experience using enterprise portfolio management, ERP, or IT service management platforms such as Broadcom Clarity
• Experience documenting data models, data quality rules, or system integrations
• Curiosity and intellectual humility, with a habit of asking questions to understand the real problem
• Comfort working through ambiguity in a fast-moving environmen