Director, Finance Business Partnering, GTS (Global Tech Services)

Vaco; Toronto; On-site; CAD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Vaco in Canada seeks a Director, Finance Business Partnering to lead strategic finance for technology, partnering with the CIO and Leadership Team on budgeting, forecasting and governance of tech spend.

You will drive FinOps and cloud cost management (AWS/Azure/GCP), develop business cases, ROI tracking, and ensure rigorous executive reporting to steer technology investments.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years of progressive FP&A experience.
• Experience in Technology Finance, IT business partnering, and FinOps.
• Experience supporting cloud spend and software capitalization.
• Experience partnering with CIO/CTO and IT leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic FP&A partnership with CIO and Leadership Team.
• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year plans for technology.
• Drive FinOps, cloud cost management, and vendor negotiations.
• Develop business cases and ROI tracking for major technology investments.
• Ensure accurate month-end and quarterly reporting for tech ledgers.

Skills

Technology Finance

IT Business Partnering

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Executive reporting

Education

CPA designation preferred

MBA

CFA

Job description

About the Company

Our client is a Canadian financial markets organization. They are looking for a Director, Finance Business Partnering who will be responsible for strategic finance partnership, budgeting, forecasting, technology spend management, investment analysis, executive reporting, business cases, FinOps and technology cost governance. Key focus on technology cost management (cloud, AI/token-based billing, vendor negotiations, CapEx under IAS 38). Currently 95% hands on work, target state is 30% strategic, 70% execution.

Why Work Here

• Sits at the tech leadership table and acts as the CIO’s finance business parter
• This role has a lot of room to grow and expand the function
• Lots of M&A – room to transition into other business lines, or grow in the technology division

About the Opportunity

Strategic Finance Business Partnering

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the CIO and Leadership Team, providing financial leadership, strategic guidance, and commercial governance across all technology spend.
• Drive cloud financial management (FinOps), developing models to monitor, forecast, and optimize variable cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS licensing, and emerging GenAI consumption costs.
• Provide rigorous business case development and ROI tracking for major technology investments, cybersecurity initiatives, enterprise platform upgrades, and infrastructure refresh cycles.
• Oversee technology capitalization governance (IAS 38 / IFRS), optimizing the financial treatment of internally developed software, R&D, and capital project portfolios.
• Accountable for the consolidated planning (budgets, multi-year strategic plans, and rolling forecasts) for the organization.
• Partner with Central Corporate FP&A to shape the technology cost allocation framework (Shared Services / CAM), helping defend technology charges and articulate unit-cost value to business unit leaders.
• Lead vendor spend analytics and commercial evaluations for major technology, hardware, and software contract negotiations.
• Ensure pristine financial integrity, accounting rigor, and month-end/quarter-end reporting accuracy for all operational and capital ledgers.
• Support a deeper understanding of the technology cost base, enabling the organization to adapt to a rapidly changing technology landscape and increased adoption of cloud and AI services.
• Provide in-depth, highly personalized decision support to executive decision-makers, including initiative modelling and tracking, business case development, proactively guiding executives to meet and exceed performance goals, and monitoring leading indicators.
• Deepen non-executive decisionmakers' FP&A acumen to enable more independent decision-making.
• Act as a member of the I.T Senior Leadership Team and a key advisor to the CIO.

Other

• Collaborate with PMO and Corporate FP&A teams on enterprise portfolio governance.
• Partner with Corporate FP&A, Corporate Strategy, and Strategic Finance teams to advance enterprise analysis and insight generation.
• Partner with the Corporate Controller to migrate appropriate portions of accounting work to the central accounting team.
• Champion and participate in knowledge-sharing forums for FBPs and FP&A professionals to exchange lessons learned on how best to educate decision-makers on FP&A thought processes during decision support.

About You

• 10-15+ years of progressive FP&A experience
• CPA designation preferred (may consider MBA, CFA, or an exceptional "bullseye" profile)
• Experience in Technology Finance, IT Business Partnering, and/or FinOps
• Experience supporting cloud spend, technology investment planning, software capitalization, and/or FinOps activities
• Experience serving as a finance partner to a CIO, CTO, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or Data organization

Salary Range

$160,000 - $180,000/year

Eligible for discretionary bonuses

Can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's 401(k) retirement plan

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You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity.