Director of Technology Finance

Jobot; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Director, IT Finance in New York to lead enterprise technology asset governance, financial management, software licensing, and data-quality initiatives. You will drive structure and transparency across hardware and software assets, partnering across Infrastructure, Security, Procurement, FP&A, and business units.

The role emphasizes strategic leadership, data governance, and modernizing processes with AI and automation to deliver measurable savings and governance improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in finance, accounting, business administration or information systems.
• Seven+ years in IT financial management, TBM, FP&A, digital finance or related fields.
• Three+ years in leadership, management, or strategic roles.
• Strong financial acumen with spend, utilization, cost drivers and TB0 analysis.
• Experience in procurement, contract negotiations, and enterprise software licensing.
• Ability to translate complex data for technical, financial, and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own governance of hardware and software asset system of record.
• Enforce data standards, ownership, and audit trails across asset lifecycle.
• Improve asset data accuracy across procurement, billing, CMDB, and IT financial systems.
• Identify discrepancies and reduce manual reconciliation.
• Lead cross-functional governance forums and set standards.
• Audit readiness for internal and external reviews of technology assets.
• Apply financial discipline to asset licensing, renewals, and platform investments.
• Analyze utilization data to identify cost-recovery and right-sizing opportunities.
• Develop total-cost-of-ownership analyses and translate to actionable actions.
• Partner with FP&A to align costs with forecasts and budgets.
• Provide spend, risk, and optimization insights to leadership.

Skills

Financial acumen

Data governance

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Administration/Information Systems

Tools

Technology Business Management platforms

IT asset-management systems

CMDB

Licensing portals

Job description

Salary: $175,000 - $200,000 per year

We are a large, established organization with a diverse portfolio of businesses supported by a shared enterprise technology function. Our technology teams provide the infrastructure, platforms, security, applications, and digital capabilities that allow the organization to operate effectively and continue evolving.

The Finance and Business Operations group partners with technology leaders to improve financial transparency, manage enterprise investments, strengthen governance, and ensure that technology spending delivers measurable value. The team operates in a highly collaborative environment and works across business units, functional teams, vendors, and executive leadership.

We value thoughtful decision-making, accountability, innovation, and strong partnerships. Our goal is to create scalable processes and reliable data that help leaders make better technology and investment decisions.

If you are still interested, then please read on….

Why join us

This is an opportunity to shape the future of technology asset and financial governance within a complex enterprise environment. The Director will have meaningful ownership over data standards, software licensing, cost optimization, platform strategy, and the modernization of processes that affect teams across the organization.

The role offers significant exposure to senior technology and finance leadership, major enterprise-vendor agreements, strategic platform decisions, and organization-wide transformation initiatives. You will have the ability to build stronger governance, identify substantial savings opportunities, and improve how technology investments are understood and managed.

This position is especially well suited for a finance leader who is passionate about technology and wants to move beyond traditional reporting. You will be empowered to introduce new ideas, challenge inefficient processes, apply AI and automation, and develop a team into a more strategic, data-driven function.

Director, IT Finance

Position Overview

A large, diversified organization is seeking a Director of IT Finance to lead enterprise technology asset governance, financial management, software licensing, and data-quality initiatives.

This role sits at the intersection of Technology and Finance and is responsible for bringing greater structure, transparency, and financial discipline to the organization’s hardware and software asset landscape. The Director will oversee the governance and integrity of asset data used for cost reporting, budgeting, compliance, licensing, and executive decision-making.

This is not a traditional IT asset administration position. The ideal candidate has built a career in IT financial management, Technology Business Management, FP&A, or digital finance and understands how technology is financed, sourced, measured, and governed.

The Director will partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, Procurement, Technology Sourcing, FP&A, and business-unit leaders. Success will require strong financial judgment, data-governance expertise, executive communication skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders across a complex organization without relying on direct authority. The role will also help evaluate the current technology asset-management platform and identify opportunities to modernize manual processes through AI and automation.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Asset Governance and Data Quality

• Own end-to-end governance of the enterprise hardware and software asset system of record.
• Establish and enforce standards for asset ownership, data quality, documentation, and audit trails throughout the asset lifecycle.
• Improve the accuracy and integrity of asset data across procurement, billing, CMDB, and IT financial-management platforms.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between source systems while reducing manual reconciliation.
• Lead cross-functional governance forums and convert operational feedback into clear, enforceable standards.
• Hold asset owners accountable for maintaining accurate data while building collaborative working relationships.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for internal and external audits involving technology assets, software licensing, and compliance.

IT Financial Management and Cost Optimization

• Apply financial discipline to technology assets, licensing agreements, renewals, and platform investments.
• Analyze hardware and software utilization data to identify cost-recovery, deprovisioning, consolidation, and right-sizing opportunities.
• Develop total-cost-of-ownership analyses and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with FP&A to align technology costs, general-ledger reporting, forecasts, and budget assumptions.
• Deliver clear spend, risk, utilization, and optimization insights to senior technology and finance leaders.
• Support enterprise cost-allocation, chargeback, and Technology Business Management reporting processes.

Software Licensing and Contract Management

• Oversee software license management, reconciliation, true-ups, and optimization for major enterprise vendors.
• Partner with Procurement and Technology Sourcing on contract negotiations, renewals, pricing structures, and commercial terms.
• Evaluate current and future licensing requirements based on utilization, workforce needs, and business growth.
• Identify opportunities to reduce unused licenses, eliminate duplicate products, and improve enterprise purchasing decisions.
• Ensure licensing positions and supporting documentation are accurate and audit-ready.
• Contribute financial and operational analysis to strategic vendor negotiations.

Platform Strategy and Replatforming

• Own the strategic direction of the enterprise IT and software asset-management platform.
• Assess current platform limitations, integration gaps, reporting capabilities, and long-term business requirements.
• Lead proof-of-concept evaluations of alternative or complementary platforms.
• Develop business cases and recommendations for platform modernization or reimplementation.
• Ensure the asset-management environment integrates effectively with procurement, billing, CMDB, and IT financial-management systems.
• Lead platform implementations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives from requirements gathering through delivery.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders and external vendors throughout platform-selection and implementation efforts.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as a key partner to Infrastructure, Security, Application, Finance, Procurement, and business-unit stakeholders.
• Build consensus around competing priorities, data standards, financial requirements, and governance expectations.
• Establish recurring reporting and governance cadences with business units to validate usage, forecast costs, and identify risk.
• Bring structure, ownership, and accountability to historically fragmented processes.
• Translate complex financial, licensing, and technology information for both technical and executive audiences.
• Present recommendations and decision-ready insights to senior leadership.

AI and Automation Enablement

• Champion the use of AI and automation to modernize manual technology asset and licensing processes.
• Identify opportunities for automated reconciliation, deprovisioning, reporting, provisioning, and self-service workflows.
• Partner with Technology Business Management and enterprise technology teams to pilot new AI-enabled use cases.
• Evaluate emerging automation capabilities within the IT asset-management and software asset-management market.
• Build practical business cases for automation investments based on efficiency, accuracy, cost reduction, and risk mitigation.
• Drive adoption of scalable, data-driven processes that reduce dependency on manual work.

Team Leadership

• Lead a team of hardware and software asset-management professionals and oversee managed-service relationships.
• Evolve the team from primarily transactional asset administration toward data-driven financial and governance work.
• Set clear priorities, performance expectations, and accountability standards.
• Support employee development, role evolution, and succession planning.
• Partner with peer leaders across Technology Sourcing, Procurement, FP&A, and Technology Business Management.
• Manage external service providers and ensure work quality, performance, and contractual commitments are met.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of experience in IT financial management, Technology Business Management, FP&A, digital finance, technology sourcing, or a related discipline.
• At least three years of experience in a leadership, management, or strategic role.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience analyzing technology spend, utilization, cost drivers, and total cost of ownership.
• Demonstrated experience with procurement processes, contract negotiations, enterprise software licensing, or major technology-vendor agreements.
• Experience improving data quality, governance, or reporting across financial or technology systems.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear recommendations for technical, financial, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder-management, negotiation, and consensus-building skills.
• Proven ability to influence teams and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives within a large or highly matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated interest in using AI, automation, or digital tools to improve manual business processes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and executive-presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of enterprise technology operations and infrastructure environments.
• Experience with Technology Business Management or IT financial-management platforms such as Apptio.
• Experience with hardware asset management, software asset management, or CMDB environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise licensing agreements involving vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe, ServiceNow, or comparable providers.
• Experience responding to financial, compliance, licensing, or technology audits.
• Experience leading a platform assessment, RFP, implementation, or replatforming initiative.
• FinOps, TBM Council, TBMA, CTBMP, or a similar professional certification.
• Experience working within a publicly traded, Fortune 500, or similarly complex enterprise organization.

Key Tools and Platforms

• Technology Business Management and IT financial-management platforms
• Hardware and software asset-management systems
• CMDB and configuration-management platforms
• Procurement, billing, and financial-reporting systems
• Microsoft and Adobe licensing portals
• Automation, virtual-agent, and self-service workflow tools
• AI-enabled reconciliation, reporting, and license-optimization solutions

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