Your new company Our client, a well established Financial Services business, based out of Southampton is looking to hire an IT Business Manager to join their newly created team. You'll be joining an organisation who deliver best in class products and services to their customers across Europe and Asia, and pride themselves on excellence. Your new role The IT Business Manager is a newly created opportunity, and the successful candidate will provide professional oversight of their IT department's approach. You'll be responsible for budgeting, cost optimisation, asset management and service cost management. You will then provide insights and direction to the leadership and management team on commercial decisions and offer recommendations on best practice. You'll play an integral part in supporting their ITLT and monitoring their IT Budget, forecast and the overall strategy. You will develop and improve key reporting metrics by demonstrating value for money across the wider IT department, implementing mechanisms to show the cost and consumption of technology services and how they utilise these better. Finally, ensuring a robust IT asset management strategy is in place supporting active cost management. What you'll need to succeed You'll be required to have experience of understanding how IT systems work in an insurance or financial services environment whilst demonstrating clear commercial management experience. You will be able to demonstrate experience working with ServiceNow or the equivalent to Asset Management tool. You'll have prior experience dealing with the total cost of ownership, Run & Change Models, and Show back & Try Back models. Whilst clearly demonstrating the ability to work with high level executives across multidisciplinary teams. You must have strong knowledge of IT finance principles, practices and tools in order to be successful in the role, and be able to demonstrate prior experience using such tools and practices. What you'll get in return 31 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days. Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness. Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans. Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover. Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover. Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops. Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk