Software Licensing Specialist

Company: SmartSource Technical Solutions
Location: Costa Mesa
Posted on: August 2, 2022

Job Description:

SmartSource has a customer seeking a Software Licensing Specialist for a Direct Placement opportunity 100% onsite located in Costa Mesa CA.
This is an 8AM-5PM Monday-Friday opportunity.
We're seeking an experienced IT Asset Management Specialist candidate to join our team. The ideal candidate takes part in various projects, providing support to VPs of information systems. Ensures compliance with vendor contracts by carrying out effective planning and monitoring and working with hardware assets and software license. Performs daily and long-term operational and strategic management of hardware and software. Software licensing experience in Microsoft, IBM, or Oracle a plus!

• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:Develop and maintain processes, policies, standards, systems and measurements that help the organization to effectively manage both on a daily basis and long-term its IT asset portfolio (software and technology-related hardware) with regards to cost, control, risk, compliance, business performance objectives, and IT Governance as established by the company.
• Responsible for the governance concerning the ITAM tools applied in managing, monitoring, and reporting on IT assets and inventory.
• Provide KPI/Metric information and standardized reporting on a scheduled basis together with unscheduled reporting demanded by management.
• Generate and distribute various reports, including compliance reports on current assets and CIs and their status; also perform trend analyses.
• Manage activities concerning license compliance audits to be able to answer to requests from software editors effectively.
• Ensure process efficiency by implementing the key performance indicators; suggest improvements to the process continuously.
• Design processes relating to software and hardware asset management, execute and enhance them.
• Establish and maintain documentation of procedures, processes, and reports concerning asset and configuration management.
  
  • Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or business administration, or in another related field.
  • Possess IAITAM Certification, such as CHAMP, CSAM, and CITAM a plus.
  • Previous experience with Flexera a plus.
  • 5 + years of IT software and hardware management.
  • 5+ years of IT software license analyst.
  • 3-5 years of ITSM tool, BMC Helix experience a preferred.
  • Proven ability and experience in executing strategic asset management processes successfully.
  • Strong knowledge of IT Service Management processes, as well as experience with Discovery tool.
  • Strong ability to carry out assigned tasks independently with little supervision
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to analyze data and present data in a meaningful manner.

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