Technology FinOps Lead
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Technology FinOps leader establishing financial management, cost visibility, and optimization for CDW, a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider. Improving budgeting, forecasting, controls, and technology spend reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead an integrated financial management capability for CDW Technology
- Provide Technology leaders with visibility into Technology spend, consumption, capacity, and value
- Assess current Technology financial processes and identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen controls
- Design and implement processes for budgeting, forecasting, time reporting, software and vendor spend, contract labor, capitalization, cost allocation, cloud consumption, AI consumption, and management reporting
- Map current-state processes, identify gaps and failure points, and establish 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 across Technology and Finance
- Improve information flow and reconciliation between Technology operational processes and financial systems
- Develop monthly and quarterly operating rhythms for reviewing forecasts, spend, commitments, risks, and opportunities
- Automate recurring reporting and financial processes using data, analytics, and workflow capabilities
- Establish process documentation, metrics, and controls to improve data quality, timeliness, consistency, and accountability
- Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives across Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, vendors, and delivery teams
- Measure improvements in forecast predictability, reporting cycle time, data quality, financial visibility, cost control, and decision-making
- Champion CDW’s vision of becoming an AI-fluent organization and promote responsible AI adoption and continuous learning
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of experience in management consulting, corporate finance, strategic finance, finance transformation, or technology financial management, plus experience solving complex business and financial problems and 1 year of people management experience; OR 11 years of relevant experience with the same problem-solving and people-management requirements
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, cost management, and management reporting
- Experience using structured problem-solving and process-improvement methods
- 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 recommendations for senior leaders
- Experience developing business cases, scenario analyses, cost-benefit analyses, and executive-level financial reporting
- Ability to connect financial information with workforce capacity, technology consumption, vendor commitments, project activity, and business priorities
- Advanced proficiency with Excel and experience with financial reporting, data analysis, and visualization
- Ability to drive cross-functional change from problem identification through implementation
- Ability to partner across Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing/Procurement, vendors, and business leadership
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills
- FinOps, Technology Business Management (TBM), or IT financial management familiarity is a plus
- Experience with technology sourcing, vendor management, contract negotiations, or software portfolio management is a plus
- Experience with technology capitalization, labor allocation, project financial management, or time-reporting processes is a plus
- Experience with Power BI, Workday, Apptio/TBM solutions, or cloud cost-management tools is a plus
- Professional certification in FinOps Foundation, finance, accounting, Lean/Six Sigma, or a related field is a plus but not required
Benefits:
- Annual bonus target of 10%, subject to terms and conditions of plan
- Benefits package (details provided at https://cdw.benefit-info.com/)
- Support for continuous learning and professional growth
- Collaborative and supportive work environment
- Remote work arrangement
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