Tech Finance & Procurement Strategy Lead

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NTU Singapore's CIO Office within the Centre for IT Services is seeking a senior finance professional to steward technology budgets and provide financial insight to the CIO and senior management.

You will lead annual planning, forecasting, and reporting, ensure audit-ready controls, oversee procurement governance, and develop workforce dashboards with the Directors across central and school IT teams.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in accountancy, Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in finance, including ownership of annual and multi-year capital and operating budgets, financial controls and executive reporting.
• Experience supervising staff.
• Strong analytical judgement, problem-solving, executive communication, facilitation, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills.
• High integrity and sound judgement; meticulous, proactive and collaborative, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in an unstructured environment.
• Strong plus Practical knowledge of procurement, tendering, contract lifecycle management, commercial evaluation and supplier performance management.
• Experience in technology or IT finance, ideally in a large enterprise, public-sector or institutional setting.
• Knowledge of workforce capability planning. This can be developed on the job.
• Experience using AI and automation to improve process efficiency and effectiveness.
• A relevant postgraduate qualification or professional certification (e.g. CA, CPA, CIPS, TBM or FinOps).

Responsibilities

• Lead yearly financial planning, forecasting, budget consolidation and management reporting across central, departmental and school-based IT teams.
• Provide monthly budget and financial reporting with trend analysis to CITS Management.
• Work with Divisional Directors and teams to present the financial utilisation to date and projections for the year.
• Establish key controls and ensure all IT financial transactions, assets, and accounting practices, including prepayments and accruals, adhere to NTU’s policies and are audit-ready at all times.
• Lead CITS technology procurement planning and governance, working with Procurement and business owners to coordinate sourcing timelines, commercial evaluations, approvals, contract milestones and renewals.
• Maintain visibility of the procurement pipeline and escalated material commercial, compliance or service-continuity risks.
• With the CITS Directors, develop the IT competency matrix, skills-gap analysis and annual learning roadmap, support role and organisation design, and workforce dashboards for permanent and contract resources.
• Supervise assigned staff and contribute to continuous improvement of CIO Office governance and reporting practices.

Skills

Financial analysis

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in accountancy, Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline

Postgraduate qualification or professional certification (e.g. CA, CPA, CIPS, TBM or FinOps)

Job description

NTU Singapore's CIO Office within the Centre for IT Services is seeking a senior finance professional to steward technology budgets and provide financial insight to the CIO and senior management.

You will lead annual planning, forecasting, and reporting, ensure audit-ready controls, oversee procurement governance, and develop workforce dashboards with the Directors across central and school IT teams.