Technology Cost Analyst at Kenya Airways

Brief Description        

Job Purpose Statement: Reporting directly to the Senior Manager, Technology Platforms & Infrastructure. This position supports and reports on budgets and costs across the Technology Department.  The role analyses, reconciles, monitors and controls the Technology Department budget, processes communication costs within the company, including phone lines, internet, mobile plans and Tye B, and distributes to the various cost Centre within the prescribed timelines, ensuring that the payments to vendors are settled promptly and without delay. Also develops cost saving initiatives within the company on technology costs.

Detailed Description        

• Assist in budget formulation, review, and justification in accordance with the Kenya Airways budgetary principles and practices. Forecast, prepare and justify Technology Department OPEX and CAPEX budget.
• Gathering data on communication usage across different departments, analyzing call logs, data usage reports, and invoices to identify trends and cost drivers. 
• Ensuring that the communication costs of the company are kept at reasonable levels by ensuring that cost saving initiatives are implemented in the company.
• Developing and maintaining communication budgets, forecasting future communication costs based on usage patterns, and identifying potential cost overruns. Preparing the variance analysis for all the Technology Department cost centres for discussion by the management monthly.
• Analyse and charge Airline Communication bills to the various cost centres ensuring that the company pays only for services consumed.
• Ensuring that the monthly OPEX costs are accurately and timely posted and giving a variance analysis to help monitor compliance with the budgetary proposals.
• Ensuring that all communication service providers are paid for the services provided within the credit period.
• Ensuring that service level agreements are adhered to, and any violations are penalised by obtaining credit notes from the vendors.
• Monitor cost centre budgets and ensuring accuracy of figures posted to various Technology Department cost centres and producing the variance reports for decision making by the management.
• Engaging the service providers of communications services on strategies that can assist the company to save on its communication costs.
• Issue and support company lines, phones, and internet modems and maintain Accurate inventor for the same.
• Ensuring that the communication costs of the company are kept at reasonable levels by ensuring that cost saving initiatives are implemented in the company.
• Developing and maintaining communication budgets, forecasting future communication costs based on usage patterns, and identifying potential cost overruns. Preparing the variance analysis for all the Technology Department cost centres for discussion by the management monthly.
• Ensuring that the communication costs of the company are kept at reasonable levels by ensuring that cost saving initiatives are implemented in the company.
• Developing and maintaining communication budgets, forecasting future communication costs based on usage patterns, and identifying potential cost overruns. Preparing the variance analysis for all the Technology Department cost centres for discussion by the management monthly.
• Analyse and charge Airline Communication bills to the various cost centres ensuring that the company pays only for services consumed.
• Ensuring that the monthly OPEX costs are accurately and timely posted and giving a variance analysis to help monitor compliance with the budgetary proposals.
• Ensuring that all communication service providers are paid for the services provided within the credit period.
• Ensuring that service level agreements are adhered to, and any violations are penalised by obtaining credit notes from the vendors.
• Monitor cost centre budgets and ensuring accuracy of figures posted to various Technology Department cost centres and producing the variance reports for decision making by the management.
• Engaging the service providers of communications services on strategies that can assist the company to save on its communication costs.
• Issue and support company lines, phones, and internet modems and maintain Accurate inventor for the same.

Job Requirements        

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field.
• Working knowledge of various communications technologies.
• Professional qualification on networking and communications
• Minimum1 years' experience in a Technology environment.