Technology FinOps Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish and oversee a cohesive financial management capability for CDW Technology.

• Provide visibility into Technology expenditures, consumption, capacity, and value for Technology leaders.

• Evaluate existing Technology financial processes and pinpoint opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and enhance controls.

• Design and execute processes for budgeting, forecasting, time reporting, software and vendor expenses, contract labor, capitalization, cost allocation, cloud consumption, AI usage, and management reporting.

• Analyze current-state processes, identify gaps and failure points, and create future-state workflows, ownership, decision rights, and controls.

• Decrease dependence on manual reconciliations, isolated spreadsheets, inconsistent definitions, and ad-hoc reporting.

• Establish standardized financial taxonomies and definitions across Technology and Finance.

• Enhance the flow of information and reconciliation between Technology operational processes and financial systems.

• Develop monthly and quarterly operating rhythms for evaluating forecasts, spending, commitments, risks, and opportunities.

• Automate recurring reporting and financial processes using data, analytics, and workflow capabilities.

• Create process documentation, metrics, and controls to enhance data quality, timeliness, consistency, and accountability.

• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives involving Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, vendors, and delivery teams.

• Measure advancements in forecast accuracy, reporting cycle time, data quality, financial transparency, cost control, and decision-making.

• Advocate for CDW’s vision of becoming an AI-fluent organization and foster responsible AI adoption and ongoing learning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of experience in management consulting, corporate finance, strategic finance, finance transformation, or technology financial management, including experience resolving complex business and financial challenges and 1 year of people management experience; OR 11 years of relevant experience fulfilling the same problem-solving and people management criteria.

• Profound understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, cost management, and management reporting.

• Experience utilizing structured problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.

• Experience in developing and implementing operating models, processes, governance, controls, and reporting frameworks in complex organizations.

• Ability to analyze intricate financial and operational data and convert findings into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.

• Experience in creating business cases, scenario analyses, cost-benefit analyses, and executive-level financial reporting.

• Ability to link financial data with workforce capacity, technology consumption, vendor obligations, project activity, and business priorities.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel alongside experience in financial reporting, data analysis, and visualization.

• Capability to drive cross-functional change from problem identification to implementation.

• Ability to collaborate with Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing/Procurement, vendors, and business leadership.

• Strong executive communication and presentation abilities.

• Familiarity with FinOps, Technology Business Management (TBM), or IT financial management is advantageous.

• Experience in technology sourcing, vendor management, contract negotiations, or software portfolio management is a plus.

• Experience in 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 mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus target of 10%, contingent upon the terms and conditions of the plan.

• Comprehensive benefits package (details available at https://cdw.benefit-info.com/).

• Support for continuous learning and professional development.

• A collaborative and supportive work environment.

• Flexible remote work options.