Description
We are seeking a BT Operations Lead to support operational discipline and strong partnership with Corporate Finance. The successful candidate will help design, socialize, and support enforcement of processes that ensure investment discipline and the integrity of the technology budget.
Responsibilities:
- Cost Variance Management: Support processes for continuous budget monitoring, proactive identification of potential overruns, and timely escalation to ensure IT spending remains within established tolerance levels.
- Budget Exception Governance: Help define, document, and manage a clear, transparent workflow for reviewing and routing budget exceptions, ensuring appropriate approval is obtained for non-strategic or out-of-policy spending.
- Capitalization Alignment: Partner with the Finance/Accounting team to help ensure technology asset classification (CapEx vs. OpEx) is accurate, auditable, and aligned with company and regulatory accounting policies.
- Financial Data Integrity: Support the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of IT financial data reported.
- Workforce Governance: Help define, document, and manage a transparent workflow to ensure workforce execution is aligned with BT workforce strategy.
- Contract & Renewal Management: Partner with Finance, Legal, and Procurement teams to manage contracts, own renewal management by proactively tracking upcoming renewal dates and driving timely decisions, and identify opportunities for consolidation and cost savings.
- Strategic Reporting & Transparency: Support a strategic program to design, develop, and implement a Bill of IT (BoIT) framework to allocate and charge back technology service costs to consuming business units, increasing accountability and driving usage efficiency.
- FinOps Dashboard Creation: Help define requirements for and support the creation of a FinOps dashboard that provides actionable, near real-time visibility into consumption spending, utilization rates, optimization opportunities, and cost variance.
- Reporting: Develop and deliver accurate, timely operational reports for BT leadership and Finance partners, highlighting spending trends, risks, and efficiency gains.
- Process Governance & Partnership: Collaborate with Finance partners (FP&A, Accounting) to help integrate IT financial processes into the company's overall financial planning and reporting cycles.
- Policy Support: Support and help apply internal IT financial policies, standards, and procedures in partnership with engineering and technology teams.
- Stakeholder Training: Develop and deliver training to IT budget owners and business partners on financial governance best practices, capitalization rules, and variance tracking.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of progressive experience in IT Finance, IT Business Management (ITBM), or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).
- 7+ years of experience in technology investments within the software development environment.
- 6+ years of experience in accounting principles related to technology (e.g., software capitalization rules, asset depreciation).
- 6+ years of experience supporting operational financial processes, including budget control, variance analysis, and exception management.
- 6+ years of experience with cloud cost allocation/optimization tools (e.g., Apptio, Cloudability, native cloud provider tools).
- Excellent collaboration and influencing skills, with a track record of successfully partnering with Corporate Finance teams.
- Solid understanding of governance management principles and experience supporting governance frameworks for organizational initiatives.
- Ability to effectively facilitate meetings, including with senior stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related quantitative field. MBA or CPA certification is a plus.
Salary: $169,800 USD - $254,600 USD
Flexible Work: With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.