Software Asset Management Analyst

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Own effective license position analysis for major publishers and strategically significant software portfolios.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex licensing, compliance, and tool-related issues within the SAM team.
• Interpret software agreements, product terms, maintenance rights, subscription terms, and usage rights to assess compliance position and financial exposure.
• Lead complex reconciliation activities across discovery, inventory, entitlements, contract data, and operational deployment records.
• Drive optimization initiatives such as license harvesting, reallocation, standardization, rationalization support, and contract consolidation analysis.
• Support internal and external audit response activities, including evidence development, data validation, issue analysis, and remediation planning.
• Establish and maintain authoritative Effective License Positions (ELPs) for Top Tier publishers; lead audit defense strategy, including evidence validation, negotiation support, and legal coordination.
• Define and enforce SaaS and cloud governance models, including provisioning controls, usage metering, license mobility, and cost optimization strategies.
• Develop executive-ready dashboards and reporting on compliance risk, renewal exposure, optimization opportunities, and savings realized.
• Serve as a point of contact for procurement, finance, legal, cloud, infrastructure, and service teams on software governance matters.
• Assist in complex vendor negotiations and renewal strategies, including contract consolidation, pricing optimization, and risk mitigation.
• Provide training, knowledge sharing, and best practice guidance to team members to elevate overall SAM program capability.
• Mentor and help refine operational standards, playbooks, and quality controls.

Requirements

• Mandatory Experience with major enterprise SAM/ITAMplatform (Flexera).
• Stronge experience in Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management, procurement analysis, licensing analysis, or a similar analytical IT function.
• Advanced analytical capability using Excel and reporting tools; working SQL capability preferred.
• Demonstrated experience building or supporting effective license positions for complex software publishers.
• Strong understanding of software contract interpretation, entitlement analysis, and audit support.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret legal agreements, licensing entitlements, and deployment data to determine compliance and financial impact.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence executive and cross-functional audiences.
• Ability to present findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Familiarity with major enterprise publishers and broad licensing concepts for user, device, server, subscription, and cloud-based software.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent reporting tools.
• IAITAM CSAM/CAMP or ITIL Foundation.