Director of Technology Purchasing Finance

Job Description

• Work with the CIO to set the technology vision and strategy

• Design and build the enterprise architectural platform

• Strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization.

• Identifying opportunities for the appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development.

• Develop business case justifications and ROI analyses for IT budgets.

• Define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations.

• Approve, prioritize and control projects and the project portfolio as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems.

• Review hardware and software acquisition and maintenance contracts and pursue master agreements to capitalize on economies of scale.

• Ensure continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with the business and monitoring of IT systems performance.

• Ensure IT system operation adheres to applicable laws and regulations, including ownership of IT risk management and security strategy.

• Strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals

• Develop and track procurement metrics including areas of spend analytics, requisition-to-payment process, operational efficiencies and supplier performance

• Provide input data analysis spend management and benefits capture to Sourcing Managers and procurement management to aid in strategy development

• Develop business cases for all major supplier contracts including activities such as lease vs. buy and cost analysis.

• Manage Client Supply Shared Service financials including month end allocation process and required financial controls.

• Support development with of Proforma business cases for Value Creation Team new product introduction and development.

• Develop, track and control the information technology and procurement annual operating and capital budgets.

• Serves as a liaison between Information Technology and Purchasing teams and Centralized Accounting, Financial, Planning & Analysis and Business Development

• Budget/ Forecasting processes – Provide business insights/actions to FP&A

• Identify issues/opportunities to improve financial performance

Identify, implement and track savings initiatives

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting
• CPA or MBA preferred
• 15 + years’ experience of professional accounting/finance experience

Additional Information

$180K plus bonus