Senior Manager – IT Financial Management

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

18h

About The Position

The Senior Manager, IT Financial Management is a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for the financial integrity, transparency, and modernization of IT finance operations. This role combines strong controllership discipline with forward-looking planning and automation to ensure accurate reporting, disciplined investment management, and scalable financial processes. The ideal candidate will strengthen controls while building modern, data-driven financial capabilities that enable effective decision-making across the IT organization.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in Finance, Accounting, or IT Financial Management
• Strong foundation in accounting principles (GAAP knowledge required; CPA preferred)
• Experience supporting a technology or IT organization
• Experience managing financial close processes and strengthening controls
• Proven ability to automate and improve financial reporting processes
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
• Experience with ERP systems is a strong plus; dashboarding tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) preferred
• Strong attention to detail and process discipline

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of IT finance analysts responsible for spend oversight and modernization of IT financial processes and workflows.
• Accountable for IT month-end close activities, including accruals, expense classification, and reconciliations
• Ensure strong financial controls, SOX compliance, and audit readiness for IT spend
• Maintain accurate expense classification treatment and software capitalization compliance
• Lead operational IT financial reporting and variance analysis (in partnership with Finance)
• Automate and streamline IT financial reporting and dashboarding
• Establish clear cost transparency across Run and project/initiative spend
• Improve financial data integrity and reduce manual processes
• Strengthen vendor and cloud spend governance in partnership with Procurement
• Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed