VP Technology - Finance

Job Description
🚀 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.
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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.
Responsibilities
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
Qualifications
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.
About Us
Why Crawford?
Because a claim is more than a number - it’s a person, a child, a friend. It’s anyone who looks to Crawford on their worst days. And by helping to restore their lives, we are helping to restore our community - one claim at a time.
At Crawford, employees are empowered to grow, emboldened to act and inspired to innovate. Our industry-leading team pioneers new solutions for the industries and customers we serve. We’re looking for the next generation of leaders to take this journey with us.
We hail from more than 70 countries and speak dozens of languages, reflecting the global fabric of the audience we serve. Though our reach is vast, we proudly operate as One Crawford: united in purpose, vision and values. Learn more at www.crawco.com .
Education
When you accept a job with Crawford, you become a part of the One Crawford family. And as part of the One Crawford family, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package to our employees to assist with their financial, health/wellness, continuing education/training and other needs:
Competitive base pay
- The Pay Range/Salary represents the anticipated low and high pay that may be offered for this position. To determine the actual offer, Crawford considers a wide range of factors including the candidate’s previous experience and education, market rates, minimum pay requirements for the applicable jurisdiction, business segment, supply/demand, and scheduled hours.
Bonus/Incentive Pay and other Performance-Based Rewards, if applicable.
We offer a well-rounded benefits package that encourages wellness and helps our employees to be an educated healthcare consumer. The core benefits* offered include:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
Prescription Drugs
HSA, HRA, and FSA Accounts
Paid Holidays, Vacation and Sick Leave
401(k) Retirement Plan
Tuition Assistance
Paid Parental Leave
Supplemental Health Benefits
Other Benefits
currently available at no cost include: - Enhanced Mental Health Support
Virtual Physical Therapy
Caregiving Services
Life Assistance Program
The above information highlights some of the benefits currently available to eligible full-time employees.
Training programs that promote continuous learning and career progression while enhancing job performance.
Sustainability programs that give back to the communities in which we live and work.
A culture of respect, collaboration, entrepreneurial spirit and inclusion.
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