Strategic FP&A Lead for Tech Infrastructure

Broadridge Financial Solutions; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 125,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Eligible

Job summary

Broadridge Financial Solutions in Newark, NJ is seeking a Lead Financial Analyst to partner with the Corporate Technology Infrastructure leadership. You will own planning, forecasting, reporting, and investment analysis for infrastructure operations and initiatives, driving transparency and disciplined spend management.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in finance/FP&A with strong analytic skills, experience with budgeting, modeling, and cost analysis, and the ability to present insights to

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in finance, FP&A, or business partnership roles, preferably supporting technology, infrastructure, or corporate functions.
• Familiarity with AI tools and analytics techniques to improve financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and decision support.
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis.
• Understanding of technology infrastructure cost structures, including cloud, software, hardware, telecom, and labor-related expenses.
• Experience supporting both OpEx and CapEx planning.
• Strong Excel and financial systems skills; experience with tools such as IBM TM1, Anaplan, Workday and Power BI is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present financial insights to non-finance stakeholders and senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance business partner to the Corporate Technology Infrastructure leadership team.
• Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and monthly close processes for infrastructure-related operating and capital expenses.
• Leverage AI tools and analytics to enhance financial planning, forecasting and reporting.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support budgeting, headcount planning, cost allocation, depreciation/amortization impacts, and investment decisions.
• Provide insightful variance analysis and identify key cost drivers across infrastructure categories such as Hardware, software, and maintenance contracts Infrastructure labor and managed services.
• Partner with technology leaders to evaluate business cases for infrastructure investments, optimization initiatives, and transformation programs.
• Track and report financial performance against budget, forecast, and strategic targets, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Support capitalization analysis for eligible technology investments and ensure alignment with accounting policies.
• Improve financial transparency through dashboards, reporting packages, and KPI development.
• Collaborate with Accounting, Procurement, FP&A, and Technology teams to ensure accurate accruals, vendor spend tracking, and contract visibility.
• Drive process improvements in planning, reporting, and financial governance for technology infrastructure spend.
• Support ad hoc analysis for senior leadership, including scenario modeling, cost optimization opportunities, and long-range planning.

Skills

Finance partner

Forecasting

Budgeting

Financial modeling

AI in finance

Communication to leadership

Cost analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field

Tools

IBM TM1

Anaplan

Workday

Power BI

Job description

Broadridge Financial Solutions in Newark, NJ is seeking a Lead Financial Analyst to partner with the Corporate Technology Infrastructure leadership. You will own planning, forecasting, reporting, and investment analysis for infrastructure operations and initiatives, driving transparency and disciplined spend management.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in finance/FP&A with strong analytic skills, experience with budgeting, modeling, and cost analysis, and the ability to present insights to