Senior Director, Finance

This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Are you ready to lead strategic financial initiatives that shape the future of Spectrum's business decisions?

The Senior Director, Finance, provides strategic leadership for enterprise cost analysis, financial operations, vendor contract oversight, dispute resolution, process transformation, and control governance.

This role leads high-performing teams ensuring accurate and timely processing of direct and indirect cost invoices, strong financial controls, and detailed support for monthly financial reporting. In addtion, this role will be responsible for comprehensive cost management across operating expense and direct cost / cost of goods sold environments, with special focus on internet network costs and interconnection services (colocation, leased dark fiber, lit waves, IRUs, transport) and voice network-related costs such as long distance, 911, CNAM, and other voice services, while supporting the budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and long-range cost planning for these categories. Moreover, this role partners across Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Legal, Network Operations, Internal Audit, IT, and integration teams to optimize vendor spend, ensure contractual compliance, improve dispute resolution, and drive operational excellence.

Lastly, this role will oversee the management, administration, budgeting, and strategic oversight of TEOCO telecom expense management platform, ensuring it supports invoice auditing, cost visibility, dispute management, reporting, compliance, and long-term business objectives while providing SOC control oversight and supporting business integrations, contract renewals, and vendor negotiations aligned with organizational goals.

Transition Responsibilities

In the initial phase of this role, the Senior Director will:

• Provide executive leadership in support of the transition of Cox Communications' telecom cost management function to Spectrum's practices, processes, and procedures
  • This includes directing a comprehensive inventory of Cox telecom billing and contracts, including internet network, interconnection, and voice network agreements, and overseeing the abstraction of key contract terms, renewal and expiration provisions, and cost-savings and consolidation opportunities to inform integration strategy
  • This will also provide strategic oversight of the migration of Cox telecom cost management activity to Spectrum's cost management and ERP systems, including TEOCO, ensuring data integrity, process continuity, and alignment with SOC controls throughout the transition
• Upon completion of the migration, the Senior Director will transition into the permanent role described below, assuming full strategic leadership for enterprise cost management, financial operations, vendor contract oversight, and control governance as outlined

• Provide strategic direction and executive oversight for timely, accurate monthly processing of direct and indirect cost invoices, ensuring compliance and alignment of financial controls
• Lead enterprise cost management strategies for direct cost / cost of goods sold Internet network and interconnection expenses, including collocation, leased dark fiber, lit waves, IRUs, transport, and for voice network costs such as long distance, 911, CNAM, and other voice service expenses
• Oversee teams auditing billing charges against contractual rates, validating inventories, and delivering detailed financial analysis supporting monthly financial reports and executive decision-making
• Drive disciplined financial oversight of high-value telecom and voice vendor spend, ensuring accurate cost recognition, billing integrity, contract compliance, and lifecycle management of service agreements
• Lead and elevate vendor contract negotiations for strategic telecom, internet, interconnection, and voice suppliers by:

• Developing negotiation strategies focused on cost, service quality, risk mitigation, and flexibility
• Aligning contract terms with business requirements alongside Legal, Procurement, and Finance partners
• Negotiating pricing, renewal terms, service level commitments, termination rights, escalation and credit provisions, and dispute remedies
• Managing both new contracts and renewals for internet, transport, colocation, fiber, IRU, and voice services
• Ensuring contracts drive value creation, cost control, and risk reduction

• Office environment

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field

• 10+ years of accounting/finance experience
• 7+ years of management experience

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Ability to work and model a high sense of ownership, collaboration, and execution excellence
• Ability to prioritize and organize effectively, handle multiple projects and priorities at one time, and effectively manage large and complex projects
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a collaborative and dynamic team environment
• Ability to analyze and interpret data and develop and present data driven reports
• Ability to quickly identify business problems/opportunities and focus on overall strategy
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and straightforward manner and with all levels of management and company personnel
• Ability to effectively present information to management and document, prepare and present executive level presentations
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems while working under pressure and show judgment and initiative and to accomplish job duties
• Ability to make decisions and work collaboratively with others to solve problems
• Ability to supervise and motivate others
• Superior knowledge of software applications such as Word, Excel, etc.
• Demonstrated business planning and forecasting skills
• Demonstrated analytic, organizational, and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated team and relationship building skills, leadership, and mentoring skills

• Knowledge of telecommunications industry
• Experience in expense management
• Background in vendor contract and relationship management
• Experience with telecom or other financial expense management platforms
• Knowledge of SOC controls, internal controls and compliance frameworks
• Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration