IT Finance Manager / Finance Budget

Hartford Healthcare•Farmington, CT

About The Position

Hartford HealthCare’s IT Finance Manager is part of the Finance team and oversees one Financial Analyst. The role provides FinOps and Technical Business Management analysis of IT spending across on-premise and cloud resources, as well as other growth in IT support. It compares spending with historical baselines to identify savings from moving on-premise data-center resources to cloud services and works with IT partners to track application and data usage and develop near- and long-term IT spending projections and budgets. The position supports Hartford HealthCare’s partnership with Google on cloud migrations and data and digital capabilities. It leads the ongoing development of FinOps practices, including allocation, reporting, optimization, forecasting, budgeting, unit economics, usage-based chargeback, and executive decision support. The manager provides financial analysis and insight to stakeholders, helps guide strategic decisions, and works with IT and Finance on budgets and cloud migration financial models.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, or another relevant field demonstrating quantitative competence.
At least 3 years of experience in healthcare finance.
Experience using cloud-provider cost tools, such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Azure.
Extensive knowledge and experience in Information Technology Operations, including product life cycles, network computing, and capital expenditures.
Experience in cloud computing activity and FinOps.
Advanced proficiency with complex Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and/or analysis tools such as BigQuery.
Ability to communicate clearly and present findings in succinct presentations.
Ability to construct and maintain complex forecasting models.
Willingness to work in a collaborative, matrix reporting environment and with cross-functional teams.
Self-directed commitment to maintaining current validations and addressing learning needs in collaboration with a supervisor.
English language skills.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a field such as finance or business administration.
FinOps Certified Professional certification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

In partnership with IT, operate, develop, implement, and track unit key indicators that drive costs.
Analyze financial performance, explain the causes of variances, identify trends, and find efficiency opportunities without compromising service quality or business growth.
Work with Information Technology staff to mature FinOps capabilities, including allocation, reporting, optimization, forecasting, budgeting, unit economics, consumption-based chargeback, and executive decision support.
Maintain automated or on-demand reporting; expand reservation and committed-use discounts; institute curfew practices with financial benefits; and expand rightsizing and termination recommendations.
Track utilization of data, applications, and purchased services against the Google contract to avoid additional costs and underutilized contracted services.
Partner with IT and the Financial Analyst to develop annual capital, operating, and salary budgets.
Oversee a cloud migration model that forecasts the cash financial impact of migrating from on-premise resources to external cloud vendors and the offsetting reinvestment in data and digital assets or platforms.
Keep key stakeholders informed about financial and operational metrics, risks, and opportunities.
Provide subject matter expertise to IT and Finance leaders on strategic decisions.
Supervise one Financial Analyst.
Collaborate with external partners, vendors, and consultants as needed.
Perform other related duties as required.