IT Finance & Partner Management

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Summary

Reporting directly to the head of Technology Finance and Partner Management, this role functions as the Controller for the IT organization, with responsibility for financial management, vendor financial oversight, and contract governance.

1. Oversee IT financials - Responsible for forecasting, spend reporting, and budgeting in a complex environment with spend over $100M. This will entail working closely with colleagues in Finance and all IT departments. Activities might include restructuring of IT’s chart of accounts and allocations to internal customer groups.
2. Manage and negotiate IT contracts - This role is responsible for negotiations and contracting for all technology-related contracts including collaborating with Legal, other departments and executive leadership.
3. Manage and improve supplier governance - This will entail improving the value delivered by suppliers and maturing overall supplier management discipline.  
4. CPA is required for this role,
5. This position is not a remote role, it requires working in the Dallas office. 

Candidates for this role must be self-starters who can operate with a high degree of autonomy, collaborate effectively and consistently show sound business judgment. Candidates should have demonstrated success in managing IT suppliers at large scale (hundreds of personnel), including offshore consultants.  Ideal candidates will have demonstrated success in improving IT supplier management processes and tools. All candidates should be comfortable understanding and helping to negotiate complex, multi-$M, multi-year technology contracts.  Candidates must have financial reporting and accounting experience and have demonstrated success in managing technology financial reporting, and have their CPA certification. Candidates must also have experience directly leading and managing a team.  This role will be the current leader’s successor within the next two years.