[Remote] IT Project Operations Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is establishing clarity, discipline, and financial stewardship across a complex IT landscape. The IT Project Operations Manager is responsible for creating financial rigor across all components of IT spend, ensuring intelligent investment, cost control, and proactive risk management to enable efficient scaling of the IT organization.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end financial governance for the IT department including budget tracking, forecasting, accruals, capitalization assessments, and portfolio-level financial reporting
• Partner with Finance to establish consistent practices for purchase orders, contract renewals, spend approvals, and vendor invoice validation
• Drive cost rationalization initiatives across the application and infrastructure landscape, identifying redundant systems and opportunities to consolidate spend
• Ensure accurate capitalization vs. expense categorization of labor and project costs, including documentation and audit readiness
• Maintain a rolling 12–24 month IT spend forecast to support enterprise planning cycles
• Provide Financial support for the vendor lifecycle: including contract administration, renewals, and financial performance oversight
• Maintain a centralized vendor repository including contracts, renewals, expirations, rate cards, and payment obligations
• Produce CIO-level reporting on portfolio performance, project financials, resource utilization, vendor spend, and savings outcomes
• Ensure transparency of IT investments to executive stakeholders through dashboards, metrics, and structured communication
• Identify underperforming projects or spend behaviors early and propose corrective actions

Skills

• More than 7+ years experience in IT PMO, IT finance, vendor management, project operations, or similar roles
• Strong understanding of IT financial management, including forecasting, asset capitalization, and contract structure
• Experience managing third-party vendors, renewals, quotes/SOWs, and contract negotiations
• Expertise with enterprise IT environments (infrastructure, SaaS applications, cloud platforms)
• Excellent communication skills; able to prepare executive-ready materials and partner effectively across IT, Finance, Procurement, and Legal
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and skilled in building structure in ambiguous or evolving environments
• Experience integrating or rationalizing tools, contracts, or systems across merged or rapidly scaling companies is a strong plus

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