Associate Director - Finance Business Partner

SHI International; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Diversity commitment

Continuous professional growth

Health, wellness & financial benefits

World-class facilities

Résumé du poste

SHI International is seeking an Associate Director - Finance Business Partner to provide strategic financial leadership within IT and Services units. You will drive cost-to-serve modelling, multi-year forecasting, and transformation initiatives while partnering with IT and Services leaders to improve profitability and governance.

You will build transparent cost structures, deliver robust analysis, and guide business decisions with data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Significant progressive experience in Finance Business Partner, FP&A or Commercial Finance (8–10 years).
• Experience supporting IT or services organizations preferred.
• Strong understanding of service-based financial drivers and costing models.
• Proven ability to lead forecasting, budgeting and cost optimization initiatives.

Responsabilités

• Serve as primary finance partner to CIO, IT leadership and Services leaders.
• Provide transparency into cost structures, performance and financial drivers.
• Lead monthly close, management reporting, variance analysis and forecasting.
• Develop cost-to-serve models and multi-year transformation roadmaps.
• Drive pricing strategies and portfolio optimization with cross-functional teams.

Connaissances

Strategic finance

FP&A

Cost-to-serve modeling

Multi-year forecasting

Data analysis

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Professional finance qualification

Outils

Excel

ERP systems

BI/Analytics tools

Description du poste

About Us

Since 1989, SHI International Corp. has helped organizations change the world through technology. We've grown every year since, and today we're proud to be a $16 billion global provider of IT solutions and services.

Over 17,000 organizations worldwide rely on SHI's concierge approach to help them solve what's next. But the heartbeat of SHI is our employees - all 7,000 of them. If you join our team, you'll enjoy:

• Our commitment to diversity, as the largest minority- and woman-owned enterprise in the U.S.
• Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.
• Health, wellness, and financial benefits to offer peace of mind to you and your family.
• World-class facilities and the technology you need to thrive - in our offices or yours.

Job Summary

The Associate Director - Finance Business Partner is a senior, high visibility role responsible for providing strategic financial leadership to the Internal IT organization and several of the Services business units. This role sits at the intersection of financial discipline, operational insight, and strategic influence-guiding business leaders with robust financial analysis, performance insights, and data driven recommendations that support both near term execution and long term business outcomes.

This role will operate as a trusted advisor to IT and Services leadership, strengthening financial rigor, building transparency into cost structures and performance metrics, and driving strategic initiatives such as cost to serve modelling, multi year forecasting, and transformation program support. The role is expected to evolve to include building and leading a small team over time.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Business Partnering - IT

   Serve as the primary finance partner to the CIO and IT leadership team.

   Provide transparency into IT cost structures, run‑rate performance, and financial drivers across service towers, contracts, vendors, and offshoring/onshore delivery models.

   Build foresight into multi‑year contractual commitments, transformation programs, investment decisions, and total cost of ownership (TCO).

   Support portfolio prioritization and ROI evaluation for technology programs, infrastructure modernization, offshoring initiatives, and automation opportunities.

   Distil financial insights into clear, actionable recommendations to support decision‑making and outcomes.

2. Business Partnering - Services Organization(s)

   Partner with leadership of several Services businesses to drive performance management, forecasting, and financial accountability.

   Provide deep insight into services KPIs including utilization, margins, pipeline, backlog, project profitability, and delivery efficiency.

   Translate operational performance into forward‑looking financial outcomes and strategic actions.

   Support pricing strategies, commercial modelling, statement of work (SOW) reviews, and services portfolio optimization.

3. Financial Management & Performance Reporting

   Working with FP&A and Accounting, lead monthly close, management reporting, variance analysis, and forecasting for both IT and Services areas.

   Establish a disciplined, repeatable financial cadence-ensuring timely visibility of results and clear understanding of key drivers.

   Proactively identify risks, opportunities, gaps, and required corrective actions.

   Strengthen financial controls, due diligence, and governance across both IT and Services.

4. Strategic Projects & Transformation

   Lead or support major finance and business transformation initiatives, including:

   • Development of a comprehensive Cost‑to‑Serve model for IT initially and subsequently for services consumption.
   • Resetting or improving legacy financial processes to drive automation, quality, and insight.
   • Supporting IT transformation roadmaps and services modernization programs (e.g., delivery model changes, capability builds, offshore strategy).

   Partner with cross‑functional teams (e.g. PMO, Procurement, Operations, HR) to enable integrated decision‑making.

5. Team Leadership & Capability Building

   As the role expands, hire, coach, and manage a Team to support growing responsibilities.

   Build a small, high‑performing FP&A capability for the Services business that seamlessly partners and integrates with existing Finance, FP&A and Accounting Teams ensuring alignment and consistency.

   Champion a culture of authenticity, financial rigor, transparency, and data‑driven thinking across the business units supported.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Significant progressive experience (8 - 10 years) in a Finance Business Partner, FP&A, or Commercial Finance role, ideally at Senior Manager/Associate Director level.
• Strong background supporting IT , professional services , or other people‑based delivery organizations.
• Deep understanding of services financial drivers:
• Utilization & chargeability
• Project profitability & scoping
• Backlog & pipeline forecasting.
• Recurring vs. non‑recurring services revenue
• Experience