VP Technology - Finance

• 🚀 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.
• 🌟 Why Join Us?
• Be a key leader shaping the future of technology investments at a global organization while working in a collaborative hybrid environment in Atlanta.

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
• 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.