Business Planning Functional Analyst, IT Governance & Planning, IS&T

Summary

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

Business Operations, Employee Engagement, and Strategy is part of IS&T and shapes the strategy, operations, and culture of IS&T. The team oversees business planning, IS&T's partnership strategy across Apple, and the technology tools that support the organization's day-to-day operations. This team also leads IS&T's enterprise generative AI strategy and manages compliance across systems. Through its communications and employee programs, it champions the growth, inclusion, and development of everyone in IS&T and drives the standard for IS&T brand and product communications across Apple.

Description

Our team in Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) builds and runs the planning capabilities behind how Apple invests in technology, including portfolio management, financial planning, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), workforce capacity, and procurement. Leaders rely on our products and data to follow ideas from proposal to funded project, understand what technology costs, and align people and dollars with priorities. As a Business Planning Functional Analyst, you'll turn complex business problems into products, processes, and data models that scale. You'll work in sprint-based product cycles with teammates across the U.S. and India.

We're looking for a business-minded problem solver with strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and product instincts. This is not a reporting or project administration role. You'll own outcomes for product areas within our business planning suite, from understanding the underlying problem to shipping a solution people adopt. You work directly with data instead of waiting on others, you understand how finance, procurement, workforce, and technology connect, and you think through downstream impact before making a change. You don't need deep experience in every discipline we cover, but you bring a strong foundation in a few and learn the rest quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own product areas within the Business Planning application suite, from problem definition through requirements, testing, release, and adoption
• Translate business needs into product requirements, data requirements, and measurable outcomes
• Analyze large, complex financial and operational datasets to find patterns, gaps, and root causes
• Build and refine analytical models for budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and TCO
• Support workforce capacity and demand planning by connecting labor costs, utilization, and project priorities
• Reconcile procurement and financial data across SOWs, purchase requests, purchase orders, receipts, and invoices
• Manage a product backlog with cross-functional partners, weighing competing requests against business value
• Present analysis and recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leaders

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business analysis, financial analysis, product management, consulting, or a related field
• Experience building analytical models or reports from large, complex, or incomplete datasets
• Experience preparing or analyzing budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variance reports, including OPEX and CAPEX
• Experience analyzing large datasets in Excel or BI tools to find trends, variances, and data quality issues
• Experience translating business needs into written product or system requirements, such as user stories or functional specifications
• Experience working across Finance, Engineering, Procurement, or IT Operations in a large organization
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to work in two or more of the following: portfolio management, TCO and cost allocation, workforce planning, procurement, or hierarchy management
• Background in FP&A, IT financial management, management consulting, business intelligence, or enterprise product management
• Experience building dashboards in BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Superset
• Experience using enterprise portfolio management, ERP, or IT service management platforms such as Broadcom Clarity
• Experience documenting data models, data quality rules, or system integrations
• Curiosity and intellectual humility, with a habit of asking questions to understand the real problem
• Comfort working through ambiguity in a fast-moving environment, while demonstrating Apple's values of inclusion and diversity in daily activities

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $140,700 and $211,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant