Director of Strategic Finance & Business Partnering - CIO
The Hartford•Hartford, CT
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Director of Strategic Finance & Business Partnering – CIO serves as a strategic finance transformation leader supporting one of the company’s largest and most critical investment areas. This role partners directly with Technology and Segment Finance leadership to drive financial transparency, modernize forecasting and reporting, and enable faster, earlier, and more actionable insights across run and invest spend. This position leads a team and is accountable for advancing the Technology Finance operating model by leveraging AI, automation, driver-based financial modeling, and cross-finance partnership to reduce manual effort, improve forecast quality, and deliver proactive insight into cost drivers, allocation impacts, and business outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required
- 10+ years of finance experience, including FP&A, expense management, and decision support
- Proven experience leading teams, developing talent, and building capability in analytics, automation, and business partnership
- Strong end-to-end financial modeling skills with ability to connect operational, technology, and allocation drivers to financial outcomes
- Experience driving finance modernization, automation, process redesign, and AI-enabled efficiency improvements
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence senior leadership, segment finance partners, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Advanced Excel required
Nice To Haves
- MBA or CPA preferred
- TM1 preferred
- experience with Power BI, automation tools, AI-enabled productivity tools, or similar analytics capabilities strongly preferred
- Knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting concepts preferred
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic advisor to Technology and Finance leadership, providing clear financial insights, recommendations, and decision frameworks
- Translate complex financial results, technology drivers, and allocation impacts into actionable guidance for executive decision-making
- Deliver concise, executive-ready commentary that moves beyond variance reporting to explain risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and required actions
- Strengthen cost transparency by identifying and explaining key drivers of Technology and infrastructure spend, including direct and indirect cost impacts
- Partner with Segment Finance to evolve Technology allocation reporting, provide proactive transparency into direct and indirect allocation impacts
- Lead development of Operating Plan, forecasts, monthly results, and driver-based financial models that connect technology activity to financial outcomes
- Shift reporting from retrospective variance explanation to forward-looking insight by identifying trends, risks, opportunities, and allocation impacts earlier in the cycle
- Improve forecast predictability through stronger governance, consistent assumptions, scenario modeling, and alignment to approved decisions
- Create scalable materials and commentary that reduce manual work while increasing the quality, consistency, and actionability of insights delivered to leadership
- Lead the roadmap to modernize Technology Finance forecasting, reporting, allocation transparency, and analytics
- Leverage AI, automation, and reusable workflows to reduce manual effort, shorten cycle times, and improve consistency of leadership materials
- Redesign recurring reporting and Outlook processes so finance effort shifts from data assembly to insight generation, challenge, and decision support
- Build team adoption of modern tools, standardized prompts, automated diagnostics, and human-in-the-loop review to improve speed, quality, and control
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing finance team
- Establish clear expectations for ownership, accountability, and quality of work
- Build team capability in financial modeling, analytics, and business partnership
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and engagement
- Lead financial management of Technology spend, including run vs. invest, capital vs. expense, lifecycle funding, and portfolio tradeoffs
- Own financial reporting, variance analysis, and executive commentary
- Ensure accuracy, compliancy, and integrity of financial information, including capitalization, allocations, and reserves
- Provide oversight of contracts, invoices, and asset-related financial activities
Benefits
- short-term or annual bonuses
- long-term incentives
- on-the-spot recognition
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
