Software Licensing Analyst

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The Global Experian IT Services Software Asset Management (SAM) team are responsible for ensuring licensing compliance for large strategic suppliers together with understanding the centralised deployment / software usage to inform contract anniversary dates and renewals.

As such, the team works closely with our external SAM provider, the global procurement team, the Global technology demand team as well as both Global and Regional technical teams. By working closely with other teams the Software License Analyst role is expected to take responsibility for specific vendors/software titles and bring the relevant teams together as and when required.

This role will provide a great opportunity to develop your existing Software Licensing skills in a Global Organisation offering development opportunities and existing SAM resources to broaden your knowledge whilst aiming to utilise new AI Technologies to drive new efficient ways of working.

Principle responsibilities 

• Manage Software Compliance for a number of Software Publishers through coordination of information with external supplier, maintain accurate deployment and drawdown records and coordinate closely with procurement, demand teams to ensure estate is rightsized and licensed in the most cost optimised model 
• Support the contract execution and renewals processes by providing accurate information related to license entitlement, allocation/usage, and maintain open dialog regarding license footprint across a portfolio of software titles
• Liaise and support finance teams on budgeting and forecasting software related pricing activities 
• Identify areas of continuous improvement including increased automation for asset management process efficiencies 
• Proactively identify and drive opportunities across desktop, server & cloud to successful outcomes through rationalizing and standardizing software renewal contracts together with rationalizing software titles for overlapping product sets to reduce costs 

• A background it IT asset management at a large organization, preferably software asset management 
• Experience of managing Software Contracts & dealing with Software Vendors/Publishers and Resellers is critical 
• Understanding of software usage metrics and contractual terms for at least one of Microsoft, Oracle or IBM 
• Prior experience of Oracle financials
• Understanding of Citrix and VMware architecture, and public cloud processes/concepts 
• Experienced navigating ServiceNow to extract SAM related data.

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