IT Finance Manager / Finance Budget

Location Detail: 9 Farm Springs Rd Farmington (10566)

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The creation of the HHC System Support Office recognizes the work of a large and growing group of employees whose responsibilities are continually evolving so that we and our departments now work on behalf of the system as a whole, rather than a single member organization. With the creation of our new umbrella organization we now have our own identity with a unique payroll, benefits, performance management system, service recognition programs and other common practices across the system.

Position Summary:

Hartford HealthCare partnered with Google in the journey for cloud migrations and data and digital capabilities enabling more personalized, coordinated care for Customer’s patients, colleagues, and partners. As a member of the Finance team, this role is responsible for the oversight of one (1) Financial Analyst and the FinOps/Technical Business Management (TBM) analysis of IT spend across on-premise and cloud resources and other growth for IT support. Incumbent will track and compare spend to historic baseline costs to identify savings from migrating from on premise data centers to cloud based service. This role will work closely with IT partners to track application and data usage to develop and maintain projected spend for near term and long-term planning and budgeting for IT as a whole.

Position Responsibilities:

Key Areas of Responsibility

In partnership with IT, operates, develops, implements, and tracks unit key indicators that drive costs. Provides financial insights based on deep analysis, highlighting trends to explain the causes of variances, and identifies opportunities for efficiencies without compromising service quality or business growth.

Works closely with Info Tech staff to lead the ongoing maturity of FinOps capabilities including allocation, reporting, optimization, forecasting, budgeting, unit economics, consumptive based chargeback and executive decision support. Maturity work efforts include, but not limited to: maintaining automated/on-demand reporting, expanding reservation/committed use discounts, instituting curfew practices with financial benefits, and expanding rightsizing and terminate recommendations.

Tracks the utilization of data, applications, and other purchased services against the Google contract to stay on track without additional cost to HHC or sunk costs for underutilization of contracted service.

Partners with IT and the financial analyst annually to develop budgets including capital, operating, and salary expenses.

Oversees cloud migration model to forecast the cash financial impact of migrating to external cloud vendors from on-premise resources and the offsetting reinvestment into other data and digital assets/platforms

Ensures key stakeholders are informed about financial operational metrics, risks and opportunities.

Provides subject matter expertise to assist IT and Finance leaders on key strategic decisions.

Performs other related duties as required.

Working Relationships:

This Job Reports To (Job Title): System Director of Finance

Job Title(s) of HHC positions reporting to this Job: Financial Analyst

Number-Direct Reports: 1

Number- Indirect Reports: 0

If applicable, describe nature of supervision of any External vendors, contractors, affiliate organizations, etc.:

Collaborate with external partners, vendors and consultants as needed

Qualifications

Requirements and Specifications:

Education

· Minimum: Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, mathematics, engineering/ computer science, or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative competence.

· Preferred: Master’s degree in a field such as finance or business administration.

Experience

· 3 Years in Healthcare Finance

· Experience using Cloud provider cost tools (Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure)

Licensure, Certification, Registration

· Preferred: FinOps Certified Professional or equivalent

Language Skills

· English

Knowledge, Skills and Ability Requirements

· Extensive knowledge and experience in Information Technology Operations for product life cycles, network computing, and capital expenditures.

· Experience in Cloud computing activity and Fin Ops

· Advanced proficiency in complex Microsoft excel spreadsheets and/or leveraging tools like big query for analysis

· Clear communicator with keen ability to present findings in succinct presentations

· Ability to construct and maintain complex forecasting model

· Willingness to operate in a collaborative, matrix reporting environment and cross functional teams

· Assumes responsibility for self-improvement, in collaboration with supervisor, by identifying, communicating and seeking resources or instruction/validation to meet own learning needs, and is self-directed in maintaining currency of validations.

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