Finance and Operations Director, Business Technology

Overview

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The American Heart Association is seeking a Finance and Operations Director, Business Technology.

 

The Finance and Operations Director, Business Technology is responsible for developing and ensuring effective business operations management for Office of Business Technology including departmental budgeting and technical policy management.  Responsible for oversight of operational support functions in collaboration with Finance and Procurement, and other departments as needed. Responsible for consulting, advising and providing approaches as a trusted colleague to BT staff.  Responsible for leading and ensuring processes and deliverables of the operations team meets the needs of Business Technology.  Also, responsible for collaborating with American Heart Association BT leadership on financial management related to American Heart Association technical project initiatives. 

 

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Responsibilities

Technology Budget Management:

• Facilitates and handles the Business Technology budgets in coordination with Business Technology Leadership Team with the appropriate guidance from the Finance Team.
• Prepares annual budget instructions and templates, facilitates budget training and communication, and collaborates with Financial Reporting team on revisions to ensure accuracy.
• Provides budget management support to BT leadership and BT managers for annual salary, operational and capital budgets; works with BT leadership and American Heart Association Finance to guide them through the annual budget approval processes.
• Develops and implements new processes to provide consistent monthly departmental budget reporting.

Financial Modeling and Analysis of Technology Spend:

• Performs financial modeling and analysis for Technology budgets and projected spend to validate effective and efficient use of technology budget.
• Coordinates and facilitates a monthly BT operational/capital budget review and forecasts to ensure visibility into annual budget state.
• Analyze Business Technology financial activities on a monthly basis; prepares qualitative analysis of technology spend against budget for review by the EVP Technology and Business Technology Leadership Team with recommendation to reflect effective and efficient use of available budget.
• Assists in management of the Technology Project Fund project list and quarterly review/approval processes with American Heart Association C-level executive management.

Technology Business Operations:

• Maintains awareness of contract renewals and other deadlines for standard vendor-required documents, such as Certificate of Insurance and assists BT managers as needed with document handling.
• Assists BT budget owners in researching budget, payments and/or other related issues or questions and works with appropriate American Heart Association finance or procurement staff to clarify or correct if needed.
• Liaises with Procurement as necessary to ensure efficient contract processing and completion.
• Leads the Technology Operations Support team to ensure responsibilities are timely and accurately performed to include contract facilitation, purchase order generation, invoice payment and other operational efforts.
• Handles the tracking and reporting for: Business Technology Assets (in conjunction with Finance requirements), Business Technology Service Level Agreements, and Business Technology contractors.

Technology Process Management:

• Provides regular updates to the American Heart Association BT Policy Library (Policies, Procedures, Processes and Support & Operations documents) working in coordina