🚀 Now Hiring: VP Technology – Finance 📍 Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid) Are you a strategic finance leader with a passion for technology and innovation? Join Crawford & Company as our VP Technology – Finance, where you'll serve as the senior finance partner to our global technology organization. 💡 What You'll Do: ✅Partner closely with the CFO and CIO to align technology investments with business strategy. ✅Lead financial planning, budgeting, capital allocation, and investment governance across the technology portfolio. ✅Drive smart decision-making around technology spending, balancing cost optimization with business value and ROI. ✅Provide executive-level insights into financial performance, risks, and digital transformation initiatives. ✅Enhance financial transparency, strengthen controls, and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes. 💼 What We're Looking For: ✅Senior-level finance leadership experience supporting technology organizations. ✅Strong expertise in financial planning, investment analysis, and capital management. ✅Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic outcomes. ✅Experience evaluating large-scale technology and digital transformation investments. 🌟 Why Join Us? Be a key leader shaping the future of technology investments at a global organization while working in a collaborative hybrid environment in Atlanta. • IT Financial Strategy • Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial plan for the global IT function. • Partner with CIO and IT leadership to align spend with strategic priorities. • Analyze run-rate, project, labor, infrastructure, software, and vendor costs. • Provide variance analysis and actionable insights on IT operating and capital expenditures.| • Business Partnership with CIO & IT Leadership • Serve as the primary finance partner to the CIO and senior IT leaders. • Translate technology initiatives into financial impacts, risks, and return expectations. • Support prioritization of projects based on business value, affordability, and strategic alignment. • Provide decision support for trade-offs across technology investments. • Cloud Financial Management & Digital Economics • Lead FinOps and cloud financial strategy, including cost optimization and transparency • Evaluate CapEx vs OpEx trade-offs and financial impacts of technology investments • Drive scalable, cost-efficient cloud economics aligned with enterprise capital allocation priorities • Deliver actionable insights on cloud spend, unit economics, and ROI • Technology Investment Governance / Portfolio Management • Review and challenge business cases for major IT initiatives, digital transformation, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and system implementations. • Refine and implement financial governance best practices around project funding, benefits tracking, and post-implementation reviews. • Monitor project financial performance, including budget-to-actuals and expected ROI. • Ensure disciplined capital allocation across the technology portfolio. • IT Cost Management & Optimization • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize IT cost structure. • Evaluate and recommend approach – Build vs. Buy vs. Outsource. • Evaluate spend across applications, software licenses, infrastructure, cloud, telecom, contractors, and managed services. • Support benchmarking and cost transparency initiatives. • Drive accountability for spend management and productivity improvements across IT. • Capital Expenditure & Accounting Alignment • Oversee financial treatment of IT investments, including capitalization of software development and implementation costs where applicable. • Partner with controllership and accounting teams to ensure compliance with accounting policies and internal controls. • Monitor capex budgets and depreciation/amortization impacts. • Support audit and documentation requirements related to IT financial activity. • Vendor / Contract Financial Oversight • Provide financial support for major IT vendor negotiations, renewals, and contract reviews. • Evaluate pricing structures, consumption trends, and total cost of ownership. • Partner with procurement and legal to assess financial risk and commercial terms. • Monitor commitments, savings realization, and budget impacts from third-party agreements. • Reporting, KPI Development & Executive Communication • Lead and present monthly and quarterly IT financial reporting packages for executive leadership. • Optimize dashboards and KPIs focused on spend, project delivery, capital usage, productivity, and value realization. • Summarize financial risks, opportunities, and key decisions in an executive-ready manner. • Support board and audit committee level technology finance reporting as needed. • Process Improvement / Transformation Support • Improve IT finance processes, tools, governance, and reporting discipline. • Support finance transformation initiatives impacting technology spend management and transparency. • Drive standardization of planning assumptions, cost allocations, and project tracking methodologies. • Promote a culture of accountability, business partnership, and continuous improvement. • Upholds the Crawford Code of Conduct • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Technology/Engineering. • An MBA, or CFA, strongly preferred. • Minimum 15 years' of progressive finance and/or technology experience Minimum 5 years in a senior leadership role (VP/Head-level or equivalent) • 5–10+ years of experience supporting technology, IT, or large enterprise cost functions • Experience working in a public company and controls environment • Background in transformation programs (AI, Cloud, or large scale modernization), preferred • Prior IT finance leader title, preferred • Strong analytical, verbal and written communication, people, project management and organizational skills • Leadership skills, presence, and ability to interact with all levels in the organization and vendors • Excellent interpersonal skills to liaise with cross-functional teams • Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects, effectively prioritize, manage others, and meet deadlines • Highly motivated, creative, articulate, and results oriented • Ability to grow and change with the organization • Flexible and able to operate in fast paced, changing environment • Able to influence and negotiate, both internally and externally • Ability to work in an organized, detailed manner under tight deadlines • Ability to grasp complex issues quickly • Outstanding communication skills, ability to present complex financial and technology concepts in simple terms • Strong team building and people development skills • Experience with enterprise financial systems (e.g., Oracle – EPM, PeopleSoft), preferred • Must complete continuing education requirements as outlined by Crawford Educational Services. #LI-DV1