Estimation Analyst - IT Product Costing

Estimation Analyst

- Responsible for the product estimation process within Client Technology.

- Create and maintain templates for product managers to use to estimate product cost

- Represent Client Technology on various governance and gate review meetings to review CT product cost represented by product managers to ensure consistency and accuracy.

- Support the development of the product business case working with the product manager and solution architect

- Create and monitor key metrics to compare product estimations to actuals over time

- Leverage these quality metrics to enhance product costing processes and templates and ensure continual improvement over time.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

- Strong financial management and product costing experience

- Extensive experience with product management frameworks and governance

- Mastery of program/project management methodology, tools and templates, includes program/project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management

- IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all program/project phases plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.

- Knowledge and understanding of SharePoint capabilities

- Track record of customer focus, based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises

- Management skills to manage one or more large, complex programs/projects simultaneously

- Strong teamwork skills across matrixed client, supplier and geographically dispersed virtual teams