Senior Manager – IT Financial Management

Western Digital•San Jose, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, IT Financial Management is a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for the financial integrity, transparency, and modernization of IT finance operations. This role combines strong controllership discipline with forward-looking planning and automation to ensure accurate reporting, disciplined investment management, and scalable financial processes. The ideal candidate will strengthen controls while building modern, data-driven financial capabilities that enable effective decision-making across the IT organization.

Requirements

Extensive experience in Finance, Accounting, or IT Financial Management
Strong foundation in accounting principles (GAAP knowledge required; CPA preferred)
Experience supporting a technology or IT organization
Experience managing financial close processes and strengthening controls
Proven ability to automate and improve financial reporting processes
Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
Strong attention to detail and process discipline

Nice To Haves

Experience with ERP systems is a strong plus; dashboarding tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) preferred

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of IT finance analysts responsible for spend oversight and modernization of IT financial processes and workflows.
Accountable for IT month-end close activities, including accruals, expense classification, and reconciliations
Ensure strong financial controls, SOX compliance, and audit readiness for IT spend
Maintain accurate expense classification treatment and software capitalization compliance
Lead operational IT financial reporting and variance analysis (in partnership with Finance)
Automate and streamline IT financial reporting and dashboarding
Establish clear cost transparency across Run and project/initiative spend
Improve financial data integrity and reduce manual processes
Strengthen vendor and cloud spend governance in partnership with Procurement
Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities

Benefits

paid vacation time
paid sick leave
medical/dental/vision insurance
life, accident and disability insurance
tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
employee assistance program
other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
tuition reimbursement
transit
the Applause Program
employee stock purchase plan
the WD Savings 401(k) Plan