## About the Role
This is a full-time Vice President of Finance Planning & Analysis opportunity based in Houston, TX, with an onsite schedule of three days per week. The role reports directly to the CFO and serves as a primary thought partner on financial planning, analysis, and business management for IT and enterprise business applications.
The position is responsible for helping align IT financials with delivery priorities and broader business objectives. It partners closely with company leadership, Finance, Cost Transparency, and Portfolio Management teams to support budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost management, and investment decisions.
A significant part of the role involves building and maintaining financial models, evaluating spend across multiple cost categories, and identifying opportunities to improve financial performance without affecting service quality or business goals. The role also supports financial analysis for business cases, project costing, and ROI tracking.
## Key Responsibilities
– Develop and maintain a business management framework and related policies to support alignment between IT financials, IT delivery, and business objectives.
– Partner with company leadership and Finance to build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and financial plans.
– Analyze monthly financial variances and explain the key drivers behind performance changes.
– Build and maintain financial models and planning tools.
– Track, manage, and analyze costs across hardware, software, personnel, third-party labor, and other expenditures.
– Identify opportunities to optimize IT spending and support cost-saving initiatives.
– Work with the Cost Transparency team on expense allocation, cost pools, and bill and service costing models.
– Monitor and report on financial metrics and KPIs, and work with IT leadership to improve results.
– Partner with the Portfolio Management team to cost projects, assess ongoing service costs, and measure ROI.
– Provide financial insights and recommendations to IT leadership and business stakeholders.
– Support business cases for investments, projects, and other initiatives through financial analysis and modeling.
– Stay current on best practices and trends in financial management and apply them to improve processes.
– Contribute to a collaborative and continuously improving team environment.
## Required Skills
– Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution, completed and verified prior to start.
– 8+ years of experience in Finance or IT Financial Management in private, public, government, or military environments.
– Experience in IT Financial Planning & Analysis.
– Proficiency with financial management tools such as Onestream, SAP, or Oracle Financials.
– Experience with technology financial analysis and budgeting.
– Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
– Proven ability to develop and execute project plans with minimal supervision.
– Strong problem-solving skills.
– Detail-oriented, organized, and able to collaborate across teams, functions, and organizations.
– Ability to learn quickly.
## Preferred Skills
– Technology / Information Systems Management background.
– Management Accounting experience.
## Cloud Platforms & Technologies
### Financial Management Tools
– Onestream
– SAP
– Oracle Financials
## FinOps Responsibilities
– Align IT financials with IT delivery and business objectives through business management policies and framework design.
– Manage budgets, forecasts, and financial plans for technology-related spend.
– Analyze monthly variances and identify cost drivers.
– Track and evaluate costs across hardware, software, personnel, third-party labor, and other expenditures.
– Identify and support IT spending optimization and cost-saving initiatives.
– Work with Cost Transparency to organize expenses into cost pools and support a bill and service costing model.
– Monitor financial performance metrics and KPIs.
– Partner with Portfolio Management on project costing, service-level ongoing costs, and ROI measurement.
– Support financial modeling and analysis for investment and project business cases.
## Useful Links
– LinkedIn Job Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4477406035
– Company Website: www.pritechnology.com
## Why You Might Be Interested
This role offers direct exposure to the CFO and a high level of influence over finance and technology decision-making. It combines budgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, and investment support in a senior leadership capacity. The position also includes cross-functional work with Finance, IT leadership, Cost Transparency, and Portfolio Management teams. For candidates with IT FP&A experience, it provides an opportunity to shape financial strategy and support enterprise-level business outcomes.

