IT Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this role you will provide financial insight and governance to the IT function, partnering with CIO and IT leadership to align technology spend with strategic priorities. You will lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning, and support investment decisions with business cases and ROI analysis. Your work drives cost transparency, optimisation and strong financial governance across cloud, software, and infrastructure. This is a pivotal role for shaping technology investments and delivering measurable value.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning across Opex and Capex
• Partner with IT leadership to understand cost drivers, risks and opportunities
• Provide insightful financial reporting and management information to senior stakeholders
• Support technology investment decisions through business cases, ROI, payback and TCO analysis
• Challenge and optimise IT spend to maximise business value
• Drive IT cost transparency across cloud, software, infrastructure, projects and vendors
• Collaborate with Procurement on vendor spend, contracts and commercial opportunities
• Support technology transformation programmes and major investment initiatives
• Ensure financial governance, controls, risk management and compliance across IT expenditure
• Establish and monitor IT financial KPIs and support post-investment reviews

Key requirements

• Significant experience in finance business partnering, FP&A, management accounting or commercial finance
• Experience supporting IT, technology, digital or transformation functions (preferred)
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis skills
• Experience evaluating business cases and investment proposals
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders
• Strong commercial and analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Ability to translate complex financial and technology information into clear insight
• Experience with IT cost structures such as cloud, licensing, infrastructure or managed services (desirable)
• Experience in technology transformation, cost allocation or Technology Business Management (advantageous)
• Professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA or equivalent (desirable)

• Influencing and stakeholder management
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Clear communication and ability to translate complex info
• IT cost structures: cloud, software licensing, infrastructure, managed services, professional services (desirable)
• Cost allocation and Technology Business Management (advantageous)
• FP&A and investment appraisal

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