IT Finance Manager

Job Description

Associate IT Finance Manager

We are looking for an individual who enjoys working in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented environment, values the opportunity to make a difference, and can thrive as a conduit between IT and Corporate Finance. This manager reports directly to the Associate Director of IT Finance in the office of the CIO.

• Lead the development and execution of IT Financial Management operations, ensuring the IT Budget is adequately managed and reported.
• Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections and operating forecasts.
• Lead the financial planning activities with the IT Leadership Team, supporting them with data‑driven analysis to facilitate wise investments.
• Establish and maintain relationships with the Finance Team.
• Ensure all financial tasks and processes comply with Corporate Finance policies.
• Conduct in‑depth conversations with finance teams on accounting policies, practices, tools, and techniques and apply them to the IT process.
• Influence IT leaders on financial matters.
• Prepare monthly capital and expense projections, providing variance analysis comparing actual spend versus budget and forecast.
• Perform and coordinate project‑based financial analysis and modeling to support capital and operational spend, including business case preparation and submission for financial investment.
• Support IT Leaders in creating project authorizations to obtain funding for IT investments.
• Develop a process to track and manage benefits after a project is completed.
• Develop and implement chargeback processes.
• Lead the month‑end process, ensuring all accruals and reclasses are in place in the proper period.
• Manage and analyze cloud costs to enable spend optimization.
• Analyze, optimize, and implement cost‑optimization actions over various cloud services.

• Bachelors Degree
• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Preferred SAP knowledge
• Strong, effective interpersonal, oral and written communication
• Strong critical‑thinking skills
• Overachiever mindset
• Strong understanding of cloud technology, financial management principles, and data analysis
• Skilled in using tools and software to manage and analyze cloud spending data, such as cloud cost management platforms and data analytics tools