Technology FinOps Lead / Manager

Overview

This role is responsible for establishing and leading an integrated financial management capability for the technology organization. The position provides technology leadership with clear, consistent, and actionable visibility into technology spend, consumption, capacity, and value.

Responsibilities combine existing software vendor management and sourcing responsibilities with financial management across contract labor, cloud consumption, AI consumption, managed services, global delivery resources, capitalization, and technology investments. The goal is improved predictability and transparency of technology costs through simplified, standardized, and strengthened financial processes used to plan, track, allocate, forecast, and manage those costs.

Responsibilities

• Assess current technology financial processes and identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen controls.
• Design and implement scalable processes for:
  • budgeting and forecasting
  • time reporting
  • software and vendor spend
  • contract labor
  • capitalization
  • cost allocation
  • cloud consumption
  • AI consumption
  • management reporting
• Map current-state processes, identify gaps and failure points, and establish clear future-state workflows, ownership, decision rights, and controls.
• Reduce reliance on manual reconciliations, disconnected spreadsheets, inconsistent definitions, and one-off reporting.
• Establish common financial taxonomies and definitions so technology and finance share a consistent view of costs, commitments, forecasts, and variances.
• Improve the flow and reconciliation of information between technology operational processes and financial systems.
• Develop repeatable monthly and quarterly operating rhythms for reviewing forecasts, spend, commitments, risks, and opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting and financial processes using available data, analytics, and workflow capabilities.
• Establish process documentation, metrics, and controls that improve data quality, timeliness, consistency, and accountability.
• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives coordinated across technology, finance, strategic sourcing, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Measure whether redesigned processes deliver tangible improvements in forecast predictability, reporting cycle time, data quality, financial visibility, cost control, and decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of experience in one or more of the following: management consulting, corporate finance, strategic finance, finance transformation, or technology financial management; experience solving complex business and financial problems; and 1 year of people management experience.
  OR
• 11 years of experience in one or more of the following: management consulting, corporate finance, strategic finance, finance transformation, or technology financial management; experience solving complex business and financial problems; and 1 year of people management experience.

Required Qualifications

• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, cost management, and management reporting.
• Demonstrated experience using structured problem-solving and process-improvement methods to assess current-state processes, identify root causes, design future-state solutions, and implement sustainable improvements.
• Experience developing and implementing operating models, processes, governance, controls, and reporting frameworks across complex organizations.
• Ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and translate findings into clear recommendations and decisions for senior leaders.
• Experience developing business cases, scenario analyses, cost-benefit analyses, and executive-level financial reporting.
• Ability to connect financial information with operational drivers such as workforce capacity, technology consumption, vendor commitments, project activity, and business priorities.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including advanced proficiency with Excel and experience with financial reporting, data analysis, and visualization.
• Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems, challenge existing processes, and drive cross-functional change from problem identification through implementation.
• Ability to partner effectively across technology, finance, strategic sourcing/procurement, vendors, and business leadership.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to simplify complex financial and operational issues into actionable insights.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in management consulting, finance transformation, technology strategy, or technology/IT finance.
• Experience applying methodologies such as process mapping, root-cause analysis, Lean, continuous improvement, or similar structured improvement approaches.
• Experience working with significant technology cost categories such as software, contract labor, cloud, managed services, or consumption-based technology services.
• Familiarity with FinOps, Technology Business Management (TBM), or IT financial management concepts.
• Exposure to technology sourcing, vendor management, contract negotiations, or software portfolio management.
• Experience with technology capitalization, labor allocation, project financial management, or time-reporting processes.
• Experience with financial, analytical, or reporting platforms such as Power BI, Workday, Apptio/TBM solutions, or cloud cost-management tools.
• FinOps Foundation, finance, accounting, Lean/Six Sigma, or related professional certification.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay range: $114,000 - $158,000 depending on experience and skill set
• Annual bonus target: 10% (subject to terms and conditions of plan)
• Benefits: Benefits information is available through the employer’s benefits resources.
• Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials.

Additional Information

• The employer is an equal opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.