Job Description🚀 Now Hiring: VP Technology - Finance📍 Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)Are you a strategic finance leader with a passion for technology and innovation? Join Crawford & Company as our VP Technology - Finance, where you'll serve as the senior finance partner to our global technology organization.
💡 What You'll Do:• Partner closely with the CFO and CIO to align technology investments with business strategy.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, capital allocation, and investment governance across the technology portfolio.
• Drive smart decision-making around technology spending, balancing cost optimization with business value and ROI.
• Provide executive-level insights into financial performance, risks, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Enhance financial transparency, strengthen controls, and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes.
💼 What We're Looking For:• Senior-level finance leadership experience supporting technology organizations.
• Strong expertise in financial planning, investment analysis, and capital management.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic outcomes.
• Experience evaluating large-scale technology and digital transformation investments.
Responsibilities- IT Financial Strategy
- Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial plan for the global IT function.
- Partner with CIO and IT leadership to align spend with strategic priorities.
- Analyze run-rate, project, labor, infrastructure, software, and vendor costs.
- Provide variance analysis and actionable insights on IT operating and capital expenditures.|
- Business Partnership with CIO & IT Leadership
- Serve as the primary finance partner to the CIO and senior IT leaders.
- Translate technology initiatives into financial impacts, risks, and return expectations.
- Support prioritization of projects based on business value, affordability, and strategic alignment.
- Provide decision support for trade-offs across technology investments.
- Cloud Financial Management & Digital Economics
- Lead FinOps and cloud financial strategy, including cost optimization and transparency
- Evaluate CapEx vs OpEx trade-offs and financial impacts of technology investments
- Drive scalable, cost-efficient cloud economics aligned with enterprise capital allocation priorities
- Deliver actionable insights on cloud spend, unit economics, and ROI
- Technology Investment Governance / Portfolio Management
- Review and challenge business cases for major IT initiatives, digital transformation, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and system implementations.
- Refine and implement financial governance best practices around project funding, benefits tracking, and post-implementation reviews.
- Monitor project financial performance, including budget-to-actuals and expected ROI.
- Ensure disciplined capital allocation across the technology portfolio.
- IT Cost Management & Optimization
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize IT cost structure.
- Evaluate and recommend approach - Build vs. Buy vs. Outsource.
- Evaluate spend across applications, software licenses, infrastructure, cloud, telecom, contractors, and managed services.
- Support benchmarking and cost transparency initiatives.
- Drive accountability for spend management and productivity improvements across IT.
- Capital Expenditure & Accounting Alignment
- Oversee financial treatment of IT investments, including capitalization of software development and implementation costs where applicable.
- Partner with controllership and accounting teams to ensure compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.
- Monitor capex budgets and depreciation/amortization impacts.
- Support audit and documentation requirements related to IT financial activity.
- Vendor / Contract Financial Oversight
- Provide financial support for major IT vendor negotiations, renewals, and contract reviews.
- Evaluate pricing structures, consumption trends, and total cost of ownership.
- Partner with procurement and legal to assess financial risk and commercial terms.
- Monitor commitments, savings realization, and budget impacts from third-party agreements.
- Reporting, KPI Development & Executive Communication
- Lead and present monthly and quarterly IT financial reporting packages for executive leadership.
- Optimize dashboards and KPIs focused on spend, project delivery, capital usage, productivity, and value realization.
- Summarize financial risks, opportunities, and key decisions in an executive-ready manner.
- Support board and audit committee level technology finance reporting as needed.
- Process Improvement / Transformation Support
- Improve IT finance processes, tools, governance, and reporting discipline.
- Support finance transformation initiatives impacting technology spend management and transparency.
- Drive standardization of planning assumptions, cost allocations, and project tracking methodologies.
- Promote a culture of accountability, business partnership, and continuous improvement.
- Upholds the Crawford Code of Conduct
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Technology/Engineering.
- An MBA, or CFA, strongly preferred.
- Minimum 15 years' of progressive finance and/or technology experience Minimum 5 years in a senior leadership role (VP/Head-level or equivalent)
- 5-10+ years of experience supporting technology, IT, or large enterprise cost functions
- Experience working in a public company and controls environment
- Background in transformation programs (AI, Cloud, or large scale modernization), preferred
- Prior IT finance leader title, preferred
- Strong analytical, verbal and written communication, people, project management and organizational skills
- Leadership skills, presence, and ability to interact with all levels in the organization and vendors
- Excellent interpersonal skills to liaise with cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects, effectively prioritize, manage others, and meet deadlines
- Highly motivated, creative, articulate, and results oriented
- Ability to grow and change with the organization
- Flexible and able to operate in fast paced, changing environment
- Able to influence and negotiate, both internally and externally
- Ability to work in an organized, detailed manner under tight deadlines
- Ability to grasp complex issues quickly
- Outstanding communication skills, ability to present complex financial and technology concepts in simple terms
- Strong team building and people development skills
- Experience with enterprise financial systems (e.g., Oracle - EPM, PeopleSoft), preferred
- Must complete continuing education requirements as outlined by Crawford Educational Services.
