IT Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this role you will provide financial insight and decision support to the IT function, partnering with the CIO and IT leadership to plan, govern, and optimize technology spend. You will drive budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning, and evaluate investment cases to maximise value and ROI. You will champion cost transparency across cloud, software, and infrastructure, supporting major transformation programmes and ensuring governance and compliance.

Responsibilities

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

Key requirements

• Experience in finance business partnering, FP&A, management accounting or commercial finance in IT/technology/digital/transformation contexts
• 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 attention to detail
• Ability to translate complex financial and technology information into actionable insight
• Experience with IT cost structures (cloud, licensing, infrastructure, managed services, professional services) is desirable
• Experience in technology transformation, cost allocation or Technology Business Management is advantageous
• Professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA, or equivalent experience is desirable

• Influencing and stakeholder management
• Analytical mindset
• Attention to detail
• FP&A
• Management accounting
• Business case evaluation

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