The ultimate goal of any business enterprise is profitability. Simply put: A profitable business is a successful business. But before success can be declared, each business must first define what profitability looks like and then make a detailed plan on how to get there. Developing that budgetary plan often falls on the shoulders of the individual fulfilling the IT finance manager or the budget director role in an organization.

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Regardless of the organizational chart, an IT finance manager / budget director must have a strong background in business, accounting, and finance. For IT-specific positions, candidates will also need to possess extensive knowledge and experience in information technology, including product life cycles, capital expenditures, and the development process. Beyond technical expertise, successful candidates will also have effective communication skills and have the demonstrable ability to work with teams across all levels in the organization.

It is important to note that because of cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and the collection of big data in modern enterprises, the successful candidate will need more than a tertiary knowledge of application development cycles and their corresponding budgetary provisions.

The successful, profitable modern business enterprise will have to establish and maintain a budget for developing useful internal applications that can transform the massive amounts of data generated in a modern enterprise into actionable information for decision makers.

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