IT Financial Analyst

** Candidates must be local to Charlotte, NC**

Location: Charlotte, NC (Southwest)

Schedule: Hybrid – 4 days onsite, 1 remote

Pay: $50/hr - $60/hr

CRG is launching a search for an IT Financial Analyst on a short-term basis for a logistics company in southwest Charlotte. In this role, you will lead technology spend reporting and cost modeling responsibilities in the FP&A group, closely partnering with IT and business leaders to improve cost tracking visibility, deliver timely insights, and drive decision-making. This is a highly Excel-driven environment with significant manual buildout required.

Thus, for you to excel in this position, you need to be comfortable creating dynamic, interconnected models that allow leadership to evaluate cost structures, resource alignment, and scenario impacts across the full project portfolio.

Our Transportation and Logistics client, with an annual revenue of nearly $80M, has generated consistent growth through expansion, acquisition, and innovation. It currently has over 500 locations and is the largest intermodal equipment provider in the industry. Since 2014, CRG has placed over 240 employees within this organization, which is consistently rated high among its employees for having an excellent benefits package, collaborative work culture, and passion for giving back to the community.

• Build a comprehensive, driver-based project costing model from scratch in Excel, incorporating inputs, assumptions, sensitivities, and scenario analysis
• Partner directly with IT leadership to gather requirements and translate development plans into structured financial drivers
• Develop an intertwined portfolio model or dashboard where changes in inputs dynamically flow across tabs and roll up to total portfolio impact
• Model the relationship between development project activity and back-office FTE support requirements, ensuring cost structures scale appropriately with project volume
• Conduct scenario analysis including revenue-based allocation frameworks and basic systems and infrastructure maintenance
• Evaluate project functionality against expected business benefit, identifying non-value-added or “nice to have” work
• Provide financial insight into whether proposed initiatives align with strategic and economic objectives
• Support internal business case return analysis through robust financial structure and cost transparency
• Apply best-in-class budgeting practices to new IT development initiatives

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or similar discipline
• 5+ years of corporate finance / FP&A experience supporting IT or product development groups
• Strong hands‑on financial modeling expertise with advanced Excel skills
• Proven experience building structured models with clear inputs, drivers, assumptions, sensitivity tables, and scenario capabilities
• Strong communicator who can translate technical concepts into financial implications
• Familiarity with IT development cost structures, including offshore labor and agile delivery environments
• Ability to pull/validate data and improve reporting pipelines in SQL is preferred