Technology Budget Senior Specialist

# Technology Budget Senior Specialist United States Fin Ops Not  Specified
10/10/2026

Full-time

Remote

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Job Description ## About the Role The Technology Budget Senior Specialist is responsible for leading financial planning, budgeting, procurement oversight, expense management, and financial governance for the Information Technology organization. The role owns annual operating and capital budget processes for a technology budget in the range of $70 million to $100 million and supports financial discipline across software, hardware, cloud, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, infrastructure, managed services, and strategic project investments.

This position works closely with IT leadership, Finance, Procurement, Legal, vendors, and project teams to ensure technology spending is planned, tracked, governed, and aligned with business priorities. It also provides executive-level financial insight to support decision-making, risk management, and investment planning.

The role requires a strong combination of IT finance, procurement, vendor management, and analytical capability, along with the ability to work independently and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.##

Key Responsibilities – Lead annual IT operating and capital budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial reporting for a $70 million to $100 million technology budget.  – Build and maintain multi-year financial plans aligned with technology strategy, business priorities, and investment roadmaps.  – Prepare executive-level reports, dashboards, presentations, and recommendations for senior leadership.  – Partner with Finance to reconcile budgets, update forecasts, track commitments, and maintain financial accuracy.  

– Monitor budget performance and identify financial risks, variances, trends, and corrective actions.  – Standardize budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial management practices across the IT organization.  – Manage the financial lifecycle of software, hardware, telecommunications, cloud, managed services, infrastructure, and project-related expenses.  – Track actual spend against budgets, forecasts, allocations, contractual commitments, and approved initiatives.  – Support IT leaders, Project Managers, and PMO teams with departmental budgets, discretionary funding, capital projects, and emerging financial risks.  

– Identify savings opportunities, utilization trends, and areas for improved cost accountability across the technology portfolio.  – Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support technology investment decisions.  – Oversee vendor financial activities, including renewals, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, and Statements of Work.  – Serve as a point of contact for vendor billing, reconciliation, and payment issues.  – Partner with Procurement and Legal on contract governance, financial due diligence, negotiation preparation, and compliance.  

– Maintain visibility into vendor spend, contractual obligations, renewal timelines, and procurement pipeline activity.  – Analyze vendor costs and commercial terms to identify opportunities for savings, consolidation, and contract optimization.  – Support vendor performance reviews with accurate financial, contractual, and spending data.  – Establish and support Fin Ops practices for cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, and consumption-based technology services.  – Monitor, forecast, and analyze variable cloud, infrastructure, and AI-related expenses, including token-based AI consumption costs.  

– Work with infrastructure, engineering, product, and business teams to improve usage tracking, predictive forecasting, cost allocation, and optimization.  – Develop reporting that provides visibility into cloud,…