The Director, Engineering FP&A – Third-Party Software & Vendor Expense Management will lead financial planning, forecasting, and management of vendor expenses across the engineering practice, with a particular emphasis on third-party software. This role will serve as a strategic partner across Engineering, Sourcing, IT Asset Management, and CFO teams to improve financial transparency, optimize spend, and strengthen decision-making. The ideal candidate combines a strong FP&A foundation with a product mindset to navigate complex data, processes, and cross-functional operating models. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: • Lead planning, forecasting, and ongoing management of vendor-related expenses for the engineering practice, with a primary focus on third-party software spend. • Partner with Engineering leaders to understand demand drivers, software usage trends, investment priorities, and cost implications. • Apply a product mindset to financial processes and tooling, identifying opportunities to improve user experience, scalability, transparency, and decision usefulness. • Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across Sourcing, Engineering, IT Asset Management, and CFO teams to align planning assumptions, contract timing, renewal pipelines, and spend governance. • Improve end-to-end visibility of software-related spend by analyzing data flows across financial, procurement, asset management, and operational systems. • Support vendor governance by helping evaluate renewals, usage trends, contract changes, and financial trade-offs. • Drive process improvement initiatives that enhance forecast accuracy, planning discipline, and management insight. • Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations for senior leadership. • Influence stakeholders across functions to adopt consistent processes, improve accountability, and support enterprise priorities. • Contribute to Engineering strategy discussions on productivity and long-term investment management. To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; advanced degree and/or MBA preferred. • Significant experience in FP&A, strategic finance, expense management, or related finance roles, preferably supporting technology, engineering, or software organizations. • Experience managing or analyzing vendor spend, procurement-related expenses, or software investment portfolios. • Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting. • Demonstrated ability to work across large, complex organizations and influence stakeholders outside direct reporting lines. • Experience partnering with functions such as Sourcing, Engineering, IT Asset Management, and broader CFO organizations. • Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess large data sets, identify trends, and solve ambiguous problems. • Understanding of data quality challenges and data flows across finance, procurement, and asset management systems. • Ability to bring a focus on business outcomes to financial process and tooling decisions. • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for finance and non-finance audiences. • Strong executive presence when engaging senior leadership. Preferred Characteristics • Strategic thinker who can connect financial detail to broader business priorities. • Highly collaborative and effective in matrixed environments. • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building structure in evolving processes. • Strong attention to detail balanced with the ability to synthesize key messages quickly. • Results-oriented with a focus on ownership, execution, and continuous improvement. Example Impact Areas • Improve visibility into third-party software spend across the engineering organization. • Strengthen forecast accuracy and planning discipline for vendor expenses. • Enhance data integrity and connectivity across finance, sourcing, and asset management workflows. • Support more informed decisions on renewals, optimization opportunities, and investment trade-offs. • Build stronger cross-functional alignment around software expense governance and management.