Head of IT Finance and Cost Management

6 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom SSE Full time

**About the Role**

**Base Location**: Flexible, however our preference is that you will be based in one of our key UK or Ireland sites, which includes but is not limited to:

- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, and Reading.

**Salary**: Highly competitive and based on experience + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

**Working Pattern**: Permanent | Full Time with Flexible First options available

The Head of the IT Finance and Cost Management will lead IT FCMO (finance and cost management office). You will be accountable for running and continually improving the F&CMO services delivered across the whole of the IT organisation. This is a critical and senior role within Group IT. You'll be accountable for ensuring the whole IT business operates efficiently, benchmarks well, and costs are optimised and transparent.
- You'll also be accountable for ensuring commercial opportunities from technology spend are identified and implemented. In this role you will have the opportunity to make a significant difference to the 'bottom line' of IT and help demonstrate the value technology brings to the SSE Group.
- The role holder will work collaboratively with senior IT leaders, Finance, and business stakeholders to define, communicate, implement, and measure cost management strategies, controls (and systems) and spend optimisation plans. The outcomes of these strategies will input into the IT strategic planning and budgeting process, which will be reviewed by the Group Exec.

This role sits in on the leadership team in our Digital Strategy, Transformation and Commercial (DSTC) Directorate, which is responsible for defining and executing IT's strategic direction, enabling the digital transformation of the SSE Group and optimising the commercial performance of the IT business as a whole.

**What do I need?**

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

- Considerable experience of leading an IT cost management function and defining FCMO services and acting as they key engagement point for functional leads and Business Units on IT service costs.
- Demonstrable experience of defining, communicating, implementing, and measuring cost management plans that have improved the bottom line of IT. You should also have significant experience in establishing and executing cost and cloud optimisation (finops) strategies.
- Extensive experience in implementing cost management and transparency software (eg Apptio or similar) across the IT enterprise and working with finance teams to embed this.
- An understanding of how to bring a robust cost management and optimisation mindset to the organisation, with experience to support.
- Experience in establishing cost controls and governance to assure the IT spend is aligned to business outcomes.
- Led an organisation through the transition to an agile funding framework and bringing together the Finance, Business stakeholders to demonstrate the value delivered from technology.
- You will also have experience of partnering with CIOs, Business and Finance Directors, as you will responsible for ensuring the inputs to the Group IT budget process underpin the IT and BU Strategies.

In summary, you will be a senior leader, who is comfortable setting strategy and leading an operational team whilst implementing change. You will relish the opportunity to deliver significant benefit to the organisation, and establish a mindset of robust cost management.

**About our Business**

SSE IT underpins the technology needs of all the different businesses that make up the SSE group. From emerging technologies to data and analytics to cyber security - we power SSE's growth and enable it to generate value, while keeping it secure. As a trusted business partner that helps SSE lead in a low carbon world, we are proud of our service. Working for SSE IT is all about equipping SSE for now and the future.

**What's in it for you?**

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement (including Bank Holidays), enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**Next Steps**

Before commencing employment with SSE, you'll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process consisting of a basic criminal records and credit check.

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