VP Technology - Finance

Are you a strategic finance leader with a passion for technology and innovation? Join Crawford & Company as our VP Technology – Finance, where you'll serve as the senior finance partner to our global technology organization.

• Partner closely with the CFO and CIO to align technology investments with business strategy.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, capital allocation, and investment governance across the technology portfolio.
• Drive smart decision-making around technology spending, balancing cost optimization with business value and ROI.
• Provide executive-level insights into financial performance, risks, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Enhance financial transparency, strengthen controls, and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes.

• Senior-level finance leadership experience supporting technology organizations.
• Strong expertise in financial planning, investment analysis, and capital management.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic outcomes.
• Experience evaluating large-scale technology and digital transformation investments.

Be a key leader shaping the future of technology investments at a global organization while working in a collaborative hybrid environment in Atlanta.

• IT Financial Strategy
• Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long‑range financial plan for the global IT function.
• Partner with CIO and IT leadership to align spend with strategic priorities.
• Analyze run‑rate, project, labor, infrastructure, software, and vendor costs.
• Provide variance analysis and actionable insights on IT operating and capital expenditures.
• Business Partnership with CIO & IT Leadership
• Serve as the primary finance partner to the CIO and senior IT leaders.
• Translate technology initiatives into financial impacts, risks, and return expectations.
• Support prioritization of projects based on business value, affordability, and strategic alignment.
• Provide decision support for trade‑offs across technology investments.
• Lead Fin Ops and cloud financial strategy, including cost optimization and transparency.
• Evaluate Cap Ex vs OpEx trade‑offs and financial impacts of technology investments.
• Drive scalable, cost‑efficient cloud economics aligned with enterprise capital allocation priorities.
• Deliver actionable insights on cloud spend, unit economics, and ROI.
• Technology Investment Governance / Portfolio Management
• Review and challenge business cases for major IT initiatives, digital transformation, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and system implementations.
• Refine and implement financial governance best practices around project funding, benefits tracking, and post‑implementation reviews.
• Monitor project financial performance, including budget‑to‑actuals and expected ROI.
• Ensure disciplined capital allocation across the technology portfolio.
• IT Cost Management & Optimization
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize IT cost structure.
• Evaluate and recommend approach – Build vs. Buy vs. Outsource.
• Evaluate spend across applications, software licenses, infrastructure, cloud, telecom, contractors, and managed services.
• Support benchmarking and cost transparency initiatives.
• Drive accountability for spend management and productivity improvements across IT.
• Capital Expenditure & Accounting Alignment
• Oversee financial treatment of IT investments, including capitalization of software development and implementation costs where applicable.
• Partner with controllership and accounting teams to ensure compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.
• Monitor capex budgets and depreciation/amortization impacts.
• Support audit and documentation requirements related to IT financial activity.
• Provide financial support for major IT vendor negotiations, renewals, and contract reviews.
• Evaluate pricing structures, consumption trends, and total cost of ownership.
• Partner with procurement and legal to assess financial risk and commercial terms.
• Monitor commitments, savings realization, and budget impacts from third‑party agreements.
• Reporting, KPI Development & Executive Communication
• Lead and present monthly and quarterly IT…