Software Compliance Analyst

Capita

Our IT Asset Management team plays a crucial role in ensuring our software licensing is compliant and optimized, supporting both Pan-Capita and Capita Clients.

Job title:

Software Compliance Analyst

Job Description:

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Software Compliance Analyst to join our IT Asset Management team. In this role, you will support licence compliance activities across Pan-Capita and Capita Clients, ensuring adherence to software licensing agreements and optimizing software asset management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensuring accurate reporting of vendor compliance
  • Developing optimized vendor licence positions
  • Working with Data Analysts to correctly identify software products that have been discovered on the hardware estate
  • Identify opportunities to reduce licensing costs across all of Capita & Clients to achieve cost savings
  • Process Proof of Entitlement to manually match to applications, where automatic reconciliation is not possible
  • Reviewing / importing new purchase information from third party systems
  • Developing and improving SAM lifecycle processes
  • Qualifying and verifying all data sources required for SAM processing
  • Analysis of market changes and assessing impact on vendor licensing

Person Specification

Essential Experience/ Skills

  • Proven experience in delivery of effective licence positions/ reconciliations
  • A very good working knowledge of complex licensing for at least one major vendor (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, VMware)
  • Experience of major vendor end-to-end audit processes
  • Knowledge of emerging technologies and associated licensing models
  • Comfortable liaising with technical architects, data analysts and consultants at a technical level
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills at all business levels
  • SC Cleared or able to gain SC clearance

Desired Experience/ Skills

  • Working knowledge of at least one SAM tool (e.g., Snow, Flexera, License Optimizer)
  • Strong understanding of technology including EUC, Infra and Cloud
  • Ability to articulate complex licensing positions in a simplified format to our stakeholders and customers
  • ISEB – SAM Essentials
  • ITIL Foundation
  • ISO 19770-1

About Capita Technology and Software Solutions

Capita Technology and Software Solutions (TSS) is a 5000 people strong global shared service, responsible for delivering innovation and digital transformation for Capita’s colleagues, businesses, and clients.

We design, build, and run the right technical competencies and partnerships to enable Capita to deliver seamless public and customer services – from working collaboratively with Capita’s businesses to shape the right technology and software solutions to take to market, to ensuring colleagues have access to resilient, predictable IT services and support, which enables them to work effectively and securely.

What’s in it for you:

  • A competitive basic salary
  • Home based working
  • 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
  • company matched pension, life assurance, fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
  • voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel, and technology
  • the opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
  • access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

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