Director, Technology Financial Operations – FinOps
Saffire, LLC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Partner with Technology leadership to support the annual budgeting process, quarterly forecasts, and periodic spend reviews.
- Provide Technology leaders with clear visibility into spend trends, variance drivers, and potential risks or opportunities.
- Monitor Technology operating and project spend across categories to ensure alignment with approved budgets and organizational priorities.
- Oversee Technology’s invoice intake, validation, coding, and routing to ensure timely processing and accurate classification.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Technology and Accounts Payable to resolve invoice discrepancies, vendor issues, or workflow challenges.
- Improve consistency and accuracy in invoice handling by establishing standardized templates, processes, and coding guidelines.
- Maintain and enhance Technology’s cost allocation and recharge frameworks, ensuring costs are appropriately distributed to venues and business lines.
- Identify inaccuracies, under-recharging, and gaps in cost distribution and implement corrective actions in partnership with Technology leadership.
- Align with Finance to ensure recharge methodologies and allocation practices adhere to enterprise guidelines and accounting principles.
- Partner with Procurement, Legal, and vendor managers to ensure contractual commitments, renewals, and SOWs are aligned with budget expectations.
- Collaborate with Finance to validate cost alignment and ensure Technology’s spend is accurately reflected in enterprise reporting.
- Work with Technology tower leads to support cost tracking for hardware, software, licensing, services, and vendor contracts.
- Develop internal dashboards, summaries, and analyses to provide Technology leadership with actionable insights into spend, allocations, and recharge impacts.
- Create and maintain financial models that improve visibility into run-rate costs, vendor spend, and budget utilization.
- Present regular updates to Technology leadership on budget status, operational impacts, and recharge accuracy.
- Establish governance frameworks, approval workflows, and documentation to improve spend management, invoice processing, and allocation practices.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and increase cost visibility across Technology.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, audit requirements, and organizational policies related to spend and budgeting.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Technology Financial Operations, Technology Business Management (TBM), Technology Business Partnering, FP&A-adjacent roles, or similar operational leadership functions.
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with advanced Excel proficiency.
- Experience working with large budgets, cost allocation methods, recharge models, or multi-entity cost distribution.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Technology, AP, Procurement, and Finance teams.
- Strong vendor management and invoice oversight experience.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage complexity in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- paid vacation
- 401k plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial modelingcost allocationbudgetinginvoice processingdata analysisExcelspend managementvendor managementrecharge modelsmulti-entity cost distribution
Soft skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsorganizational skillscollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitycontinuous improvementstakeholder management