IT Financial Operations Lead

Great Day Improvements: A Family of Brands•Twinsburg, OH

3h•Onsite

About The Position

The IT Financial Operations Lead owns day-to-day financial operations across ETI, including invoice approvals, expense reconciliation, budget to actual tracking, and capital project accounting. This role drives financial discipline, accuracy, and visibility across technology-related spend and partners closely with ETI leadership, FP&A, and Accounting to ensure operating and capital spend is reviewed, validated, and aligned to budgets and business priorities. The role serves as the point of accountability for IT financial operations and spend governance across Enterprise Technology and Intelligence and acts as backup to the Contract Administrator to ensure continuity across contract and financial processes.

Requirements

3–6+ years of experience in finance, accounting, or IT financial operations roles with direct ownership of financial processes
Experience operating in environments with multiple systems, vendors, or business units, with responsibility for financial accuracy and spend visibility
Experience managing invoice approvals, expense reconciliation, and budget to actual tracking
Strong attention to detail and accuracy. Ability to analyze financial data, identify variances, and drive resolution with stakeholders.
Comfort working cross functionally with IT leaders, FP&A, and Accounting.
Strong organizational and follow-through skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Experience supporting technology, SaaS, or software licensing environments.
Exposure to capital project accounting or system implementations.
Experience working in a multi-brand, multi-entity, or multi-cost center environment.

Responsibilities

Track, analyze, and report technology expenses by business unit, shared services, and cost category
Provide transparency into spend drivers, trends, and optimization opportunities across the enterprise
Support cost control initiatives and enforce financial discipline across IT and ETI operations
Own the end-to-end IT invoice approval process, ensuring all invoices are validated, approved, and aligned to contracts, budgets, and purchase orders (PO is a future state)
Manage the intake and review of IT software and technology-related invoices for ETI.
Partner with ETI managers and leaders to validate invoices prior to submission to Accounting for payment.
Ensure invoices align to approved purchases, contracts, and budgets.
Resolve invoice discrepancies and drive resolution with vendors or internal stakeholders to ensure timely resolution.
Drive timely processing to avoid service disruption or late fees.
Maintain ownership of ETI-related expenses, including corporate card transactions, travel and expense reporting, and reconciliation to the general ledger.
Reconcile ETI corporate credit card transactions and ensure accurate GL coding.
Reconcile ETI travel and expense submissions in coordination with Accounting.
Identify miscoded or duplicate expenses and drive correction.
Ensure expenses follow established ETI expense categorization standards.
Manage ETI IT budget to actual performance across operating and capital costs, including monthly variance analysis, forecasting support, and reporting to leadership.
Identify and investigate spend variances, driving corrective actions and accountability with IT and business stakeholders.
Partner with FP&A and Accounting to reconcile variances and explain drivers.
Prepare clear budget to actual reporting for ETI leadership.
Drive forecasting and reforecasting efforts with trend and variance analysis.
Track financials for ETI capital expense projects from approval through close.
Partner with project managers to monitor spend against approved capital budgets.
Ensure capital costs are properly classified and documented in line with accounting policies.
Manage capital project closeout, including capitalization and coordination with Accounting.
Maintain accurate records to support audit and compliance requirements.
Serve as a financial liaison between ETI, FP&A, Accounting, and project teams.
Own audit requests related to technology spend, expenses, and capital projects.
Document and standardize ETI financial processes to support process consistency.
Serve as backup to the Contract Administrator as needed.
Assist with contract-related invoice validation, spend tracking, and renewal support.
Provide continuity for contract and financial governance processes during coverage periods.