WHO WE ARE

At Hallmark our Information Technology ("Hallmark Technology") division is vital to helping Hallmark win in the marketplace and serve our consumers around the world. Our Service and Portfolio Management (SPM) group plays a critical leadership role in identifying, developing, and managing technology investment, process solutions, budget, and our total enterprise technology portfolio.

As a member of the SPM team, you will partner with all our lines of business (Hallmark Global, Hallmark Media, and Crayola) supporting common enterprise services including:

• cloud
• merchant processing/payments
• subscription and eCommerce (with our Digital Center of Excellence)
• managed services (Core Technology)
• enterprise software
• portfolio management
• IT service management
• technology spend and more!

We pro-actively work worldwide with our internal and external partners to develop these new capabilities, deliver reliable scalable solutions, and efficiently manage the corporation's investment in technology and end-to-end processes, while continually optimizing our run and TCO (total cost of ownership). We are a fast paced, high functioning, high energy team with a great team culture! We get each other's backs as we work collaboratively to deliver solutions to our partners around the world. If you are passionate about technology optimization and have a strong mastery of financial analysis, we want to meet you!


WHAT YOUR ROLE ENTAILS AND HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE

As a Tech FinOps Analyst you'll be involved with:

• Cost Management:
  • Pulling, tracking & analyzing technology expenses
  • Maintaining and monitoring budget vs actuals (tracking supplier change requests, spend), identify & explain variances, & look for opportunities/risks through the data
  • Enabling management of enterprise technology estate through reporting and budget management

• Data Analysis:
  • Using SAP, SAAS platforms, native cloud management tools (AWS) & other sources to create and maintain reports & dashboards, identify trends
  • Working with a variety of analytic tooling sets like SQL, PowerBI, PowerApps, Excel o
  • Improving technology metrics and identifying optimization paths for common services including
  • Subscription authorization rates and retry analytics
  • Payment, interchange, and impact on auth/declines/passive fails to top and bottom line
  • Public cloud infrastructure (including all products within the space)
  • Resource utilization

• Forecasting:
  • Providing support to enable & update financial forecasts for technology budgets, supporting monthly & quarterly deliverables

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

The following is required to be considered for this role:

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of professional experience
• At least one year of experience in financial analysis within a technology environment
• Experience utilizing the following in Excel: VLOOKUP, index match, SUMIFs, nested if formulas, working with data validation arrays, union and join
• Knowledge of GAAP principles and financial statements preparation
• Experience utilizing SQL
  
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Your resume application will stand out if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills
• Proficient in SAP, Microsoft Power Apps & Power BI
• Mastery of a variety of financial concepts, practices and procedures
• Ability to navigate GL P&L BS and handle basic JE and intercompany cloud expense
• Ability to manage internally developed software capitalization, depreciation, and deferred tables
• Familiar with cloud computing and financial impacts, tagging strategy, and organizational units
• Familiar with SAAS structures, resourcing, and capacity utilization o Familiar with working with vendors and performing contract analysis.
• Strong understanding of technical software engineering/DevOps concepts
• Strong understanding of agile software development lifecycle
• Familiar with a variety of analytic tooling SQL, Dashboarding Tools, including Tableau and QuickSite

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

• This position is hybrid, working onsite as needed at our headquarters in Kansas City, MO.

Now's your chance to embrace a future with Hallmark-just follow the instructions below to apply.

You must show how you meet the basic qualifications in a resume or document you upload, or by completing the work experience and education application fields.Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF.

In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Hallmark Cards, Inc. and its subsidiary companies will hire only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. Hallmark does not generally provide sponsorship for employment.

Employment by Hallmark is contingent upon the signing of the Employment Agreement, signing of an agreement to arbitrate in connection with the Hallmark Dispute Resolution Program, completing Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification and satisfactory reference and background checks.

Hallmark is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally-protected status. Principals only please.

HALLMARK - Because Connecting With Each Other Has Never Been More Important

For more than a century, Hallmark has been bringing people together and improving the relationships that matter most. That's why millions of people all over the world connect with the Hallmark brand. It has always been a mission so much bigger than any one of us who work here.

Today, we need empathetic learners, strategic thinkers, and enthusiastic visionaries with diverse experiences and skills to help us create the rest of Hallmark's second century as we shift to a more digitally savvy, unified approach that combines the best of brick-and-mortar retail with the efficiency of dot-com spaces. Help us imagine what our next hundred years could look like!

When you join Hallmark, we will go out of our way to make you feel like part of the team. In the day-to-day, we'll make the best use of the skills and talents you already have. We'll also give you leadership opportunities and show you multiple potential pathways to future success.

Our culture of care for our consumers and for one another shows in the way we embrace different backgrounds, identities, and working styles, deliberately seeking out ways to be more inclusive both internally among our work groups and externally through the things we make and sell to our retail partners and consumers. We believe that a broadly inclusive, equitable approach is also our best path to future success. We're seeking out those who can bring a fresh perspective to our business and would love your input as someone new to our team! We can only change and grow when we intentionally include new perspectives-like yours.