FinOps Lead: Tech Cost Optimization & Forecasting

CDW; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus target of 10%

Job summary

CDW is seeking a Technology FinOps Lead to establish and run an integrated financial management capability that gives leaders clear, actionable visibility into technology spend, consumption, capacity, and value.

You will partner with Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing and delivery teams to simplify processes, automate reporting, define taxonomies, and improve forecast accuracy and cost control, including cloud and AI consumption, contract labor, and capitalization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate finance, strategic finance, finance transformation, or technology financial management, with people management experience OR 11 years of such experience.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, cost management, and reporting skills.
• Structured problem-solving and process-improvement experience to map current-state, design future-state, and implement improvements.
• Ability to analyze complex financial data and translate into recommendations for senior leaders.
• Experience building business cases, scenario analyses, cost-benefit analyses, and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to connect financial information to operational drivers like capacity, consumption, vendor commitments, and priorities.
• Advanced Excel and financial reporting, data analysis, and visualization capabilities.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional change and simplify ambiguous problems.
• Experience partnering across Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing/Procurement, vendors, and leadership.
• Experience in management consulting, finance transformation, or IT finance is a plus.
• Familiarity with process mapping, root-cause analysis, Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methods is a plus.
• Experience with software costs, labor, cloud, managed services, or consumption-based tech services is a plus.
• Knowledge of FinOps, TBM, or IT financial management concepts is a plus.
• Exposure to technology sourcing and vendor management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead an integrated financial management capability for technology spend, consumption, capacity, and value.
• Combine software vendor management with financial management of contract labor, cloud and AI consumption, managed services, and investments.
• Improve predictability and transparency of Technology costs and simplify, standardize, and automate financial processes.
• Partner with Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, engineering, and program leaders to understand spend drivers and opportunities.
• Design scalable budgeting, forecasting, time reporting, and cost allocation processes including capitalization and cloud/AI consumption.
• Reduce manual reconciliations and isolated reporting by establishing common taxonomies and controls.
• Improve data quality and flow between operational and financial systems; establish operating rhythms.
• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives and measure impact on forecast accuracy and cost control.

Skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Cost management

Executive communication

Problem solving

Financial analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

Time reporting

FinOps TBM concepts

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree with 7 years experience, or 11 years experience in relevant fields

Tools

Power BI

Workday

Apptio/TBM

Cloud cost-management tools

Job description

CDW is seeking a Technology FinOps Lead to establish and run an integrated financial management capability that gives leaders clear, actionable visibility into technology spend, consumption, capacity, and value.

You will partner with Technology, Finance, Strategic Sourcing and delivery teams to simplify processes, automate reporting, define taxonomies, and improve forecast accuracy and cost control, including cloud and AI consumption, contract labor, and capitalization.