Director of Technology Purchasing Finance

- Work with the CIO to set the technology vision and strategy - Design and build the enterprise architectural platform - Strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization. - Identifying opportunities for the appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development. - Develop business case justifications and ROI analyses for IT budgets. - Define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations. - Approve, prioritize and control projects and the project portfolio as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems. - Review hardware and software acquisition and maintenance contracts and pursue master agreements to capitalize on economies of scale. - Ensure continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with the business and monitoring of IT systems performance. - Ensure IT system operation adheres to applicable laws and regulations, including ownership of IT risk management and security strategy. - Strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals - Develop and track procurement metrics including areas of spend analytics, requisition-to-payment process, operational efficiencies and supplier performance - Provide input data analysis spend management and benefits capture to Sourcing Managers and procurement management to aid in strategy development - Develop business cases for all major supplier contracts including activities such as lease vs. buy and cost analysis. - Manage Client Supply Shared Service financials including month end allocation process and required financial controls. - Support development with of Proforma business cases for Value Creation Team new product introduction and development. - Develop, track and control the information technology and procurement annual operating and capital budgets. - Serves as a liaison between Information Technology and Purchasing teams and Centralized Accounting, Financial, Planning & Analysis and Business Development - Budget/ Forecasting processes – Provide business insights/actions to FP&A - Identify issues/opportunities to improve financial performance Identify, implement and track savings initiatives • A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting • CPA or MBA preferred • 15 + years’ experience of professional accounting/finance experience $180K plus bonus