Vice President; TS Finance & Administration

Position Information Hiring Manager:

Senior Director Department:

Technology Solutions Department Overview The Technology Solutions (“TS”) Department is responsible for designing and delivering state of the art technology solutions that are designed to create efficiency, mitigate risk and grow revenue for the Firm. Technology Solutions is also responsible for defining, managing and executing a robust Cyber Security program following the NIST Cyber Security Framework. Technology Solutions focuses on technical excellence through innovative application designs, robust data integration and analytics, high availability infrastructure and gold level service for our key stakeholders with information security embedded throughout.

Critical functions within Technology Solutions include Project Management, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, Enterprise Data Governance and Stewardship, Application Development and 3rd Party Integration and Strategic and Secure Infrastructure and Operations. The Technology Solutions Department collaborates closely with Firm leadership and business unit heads to develop plans in line with business objectives.

Position Responsibilities TS is seeking a highly motivated individual to assume key operational responsibilities such as contract approvals, invoice processing, financial reporting and AI financial governance while helping modernize and scale our processes. This individual will ensure continuity of critical finance operations and bring a forward-looking mindset focused on process improvement, automation, data-driven decision making and disciplined oversight of consumption-based AI investments to increase efficiency, strengthen cost transparency and reduce manual effort.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Financial Governance & AI Consumption Management Establishing and managing financial governance framework including controls, approval processes, spending policies and oversight for investments across enterprise licenses, vendor platforms, cloud-hosted solutions, internally developed applications and agent-based systems

Designing funding and approval workflows for AI initiatives including token requests, model consumption limits, department budgets, budget thresholds, exception management and financial guardrails

Developing cost allocation and chargeback methodologies for AI-related expenses across business units, products, projects and applications to strengthen transparency, ownership and accountability

Monitoring AI utilization and spend while establishing reporting and analytics that provide leadership visibility into operational costs, usage trends, capacity requirements, budget performance and emerging risks

Partnering with technology and business stakeholders to evaluate new use cases, models, vendors and investments including comprehensive total cost of ownership assessments covering licensing, infrastructure, token consumption, support and maintenance

Providing executive-level reporting and recommendations on investment priorities (AI and other), spending trends, cost optimization opportunities, business value, return on investment, efficiency gains and the long-term financial implications of emerging technologies

Transformation & Innovation Identifying and leading opportunities to streamline, standardize and automate financial processes across planning, vendor management, contract administration and portfolio governance

Evaluating and implementing AI-enabled capabilities that improve forecasting accuracy, reduce manual effort, strengthen controls and enhance decision-making

Developing business cases and methodologies to measure total cost of ownership, business value, return on investment and efficiency gains for automation, AI initiatives,…