Digital / IT Finance Excellence Manager (m/f/d)

As Finance Excellence Manager, you will establish a robust IT financial governance framework and partner with IT leadership to ensure value delivery from IT investments. You will drive budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting while promoting cost transparency and financial insight across the IT organization. You will work with the Transformation Office to baseline the One Digital program and translate IT financials into executive insights. This role sits in our Holzminden headquarters and shapes IT’s financial trajectory.

• Build and embed an IT Financial Excellence framework across budgeting, forecasting, planning and reporting
• Develop multi-year IT financial plans aligned with digital transformation and enterprise strategy
• Establish IT cost transparency and unit cost modelling (per user, per application, per service)
• Lead monthly financial performance reviews with IT Leadership Team, highlighting variances and risks
• Create financial dashboards and KPIs (e.g., run vs. grow vs. transform, ROI, lifecycle tracking)
• Track internal and external personnel spend with HR
• Baseline and track One Digital transformation against the business case
• Partner with Corporate Finance to align IT finance with corporate accounting
• Identify and implement cost optimization opportunities (demand rationalization, contract restructuring, consumption rightsizing)

• 5+ years’ experience in IT financial management within large/global companies
• Proven ability to manage and optimize multi-million euro IT budgets
• Demonstrated success in building financial frameworks
• Strong negotiation skills, commercial acumen, and stakeholder management capabilities
• Familiarity with IT governance and financial tools (e.g., SAP, Power BI, Apptio, ServiceNow)

• negotiation skills
• stakeholder management
• leadership
• SAP
• Power BI
• Apptio