VP Technology - Finance

Now Hiring: VP Technology
- Finance

Location:

Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

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.
• Cloud Financial Management & Digital Economics
  • 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.
• Vendor / Contract Financial Oversight
  • 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 financial reporting packages for executive leadership.
  • Optimize dashboards and KPIs focused on spend, project delivery, capital usage, productivity, and value realization.
  • Summarize financial risks, opportunities, and key decisions in an executive-ready manner.
  • Support board and audit committee level technology finance reporting as needed.
• Process Improvement / Transformation Support
  • Improve IT finance processes, tools, governance, and reporting discipline.
  • Support finance transformation initiatives impacting technology spend management and transparency.
  • Drive standardization of planning assumptions, cost allocations, and project tracking methodologies.
  • Promote a culture of…