Senior IT Finance and Compliance Manager

This management position is responsible for the IT Department’s financial planning & analysis functions for all technology spend and oversees IT accounting and purchasing activities. This role functions as a strategic financial advisor, requiring deep contextual knowledge of Duracell’s technology portfolio, vendor landscape, and in-flight transformation initiatives. The position demands real-time collaboration with the CIO, CFO, IT leadership team, and Corporate and Sector Finance partners.
The IT Finance Senior Manager promotes alignment of the IT financial plan to IT’s operational commitments and priorities of the organization. Additionally, responsible for the development, monitoring and analysis of the IT divisional budget based on current technology and business demands. Finally, the position is also responsible for assessing and driving the effectiveness of IT Compliance, including internal controls and reporting, ensuring knowledge of critical IT policies, leading internal and external audit responses, recommending actions to fix gaps in processes or suggesting design enhancements for internal controls (SAP, etc.) such as segregation of duties, production change management, software management, and application security.
The position reports to the Director of Business Operations, IT (Office of the CIO).

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, business administration, finance, or IT. If Bachelor’s Degree is in IT, minimum of 7 years of experience in an IT financial planning position.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic business partner to C-suite and VP-level stakeholders, not solely in a reporting or analytical capacity."
• Experience supporting US-domiciled audit and compliance programs (SOX, internal controls over financial reporting).
• Deep familiarity with US GAAP treatment of IT spend, including capitalization, amortization, and cloud computing arrangements (ASC 350-40, ASU 2018-15).
• Extensive knowledge of IT Compliance and audit/risk assessment.
• Minimum of five years of experience in a leadership role, preferably in a formal management position.
• Requires a solid understanding of operational accounting in an IT environment.
• Requires a broad knowledge of accounting and financial principles, practices, and procedures.
• Requires a working knowledge of financial systems.
• Ability to comfortably interact with all levels of Duracell business and IT management.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.