: IT Finance Manager||local to Camden, NJ REMOTE but Needed EST And preffered NJ

Primary Responsibilities: Provide financial reports and interpret financial information while recommending further courses of action, advise on investment activities and provide strategies to minimize financial risk. Maintain the financial health of the organization, analyze costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company's actual performance compared to the business plans. Develop trends and projections for the firm's finances. Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities. Oversee operations of the finance department, set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met. Manage the preparation of the company's budget. Liaise with auditors to ensure appropriate monitoring of company finances is maintained. Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics required. Working knowledge of all statutory legislation and regulations required. Professional qualification such as CFA/CPA or similar must .

Summary:

We are looking for an individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, likes to be challenged and values the opportunity to make a difference. The IT Finance Manager will report directly to the Sr IT Finance Manager supporting the office of the CIO. The IT Finance Manager is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and managing the overall IT spend. This role will be the conduit between IT and Corporate Finance. The IT Finance Manager should have a strong financial analysis background with proven career progression, problem solving skills, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to think strategically and creatively.

Manage:

• Leads the development and execution of the IT Financial Management operations, ensuring that the IT Budget is adequately managed and reported

• Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections and operating forecast

• Lead the financial planning activities with the IT Leadership Team supporting them with data-driven analysis to help the organization make wise investments

• Establish and maintain relationships with the Finance Team

• Ensure all financial tasks and processes are compliant with Corporate Finance policies

• Ability to have in-depth conversations with finance teams on financial accounting policies, practices, tools, and techniques and apply them specifically to our IT process

• Ability to influence IT leaders

Financial Management:

• Prepare monthly capital and expense projections for finance, providing variance analysis comparing actual spend vs. budget and forecast

• Perform and coordinate project-based financial analysis and modeling to support capital and operational spend, including assisting in business case preparation and submission for financial investment

• Support the IT Leaders in the creation of project authorization to gain funding for IT Investments

• Develop a process to track and manage benefits after a project is completed

• Develop and implement chargeback processes

• Lead the month end close process, ensuring all accruals and reclasses are in place in the proper period

• Experience managing and analyzing cloud costs to enable spend optimization

• Analyze, optimize, and implement cost optimization actions over different cloud services

100% REMOTE but if someone is local to Camden, NJ that would be their pref. Emily likes to have monthly/quarterly meetings onsite w her team.

1 year assignment - if the candidates were rockstars, could be potential to extend into FY25

This is a VERY high visibility role sitting on the IT team managing the finances for the IT team. The team consists of 2 other IT Finance Managers.

50% of the time they will be researching and analyzing the financials of the IT group

30% of the time they will be interacting with IT leaders and helping them to make financial decisions

20% of the time they will be developing reports in SAP / Excel

This position is open because of increased responsibilities within the group....

This person needs to really be able to self -manage and be a self-starter; taking initiative on their own, be a people person who can interact successfully with all diff types of personalities and work well under pressure. This role may also require OT - somewhere between 5-10 hours a week if needed. Need someone to have a strong work ethic and work until the work is finished!

SAP EXPER is highly preferred - will be open to other ERP systems as well

Strong MS EXCEL Skills

SOFT SKILLS are of utmost importance - go getter, vibrant personality, strong oral and written communication skills, problem solver, and someone who is a quick learner, and even keeled temperament is a MUST in this role!

Interviews will be done by Emily and Stephanie R - one round MS TEAMS interview - no planned days off in the upcoming weeks!