Overview
This role establishes and operates a comprehensive Cloud and SaaS Financial Management (FinOps) practice across a multi-cloud and SaaS ecosystem, alongside key enterprise SaaS and AI platforms. The position partners with Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Procurement, Security, and product teams to ensure cloud and SaaS consumption is cost-efficient, well-governed, transparent, and aligned to business priorities—both during ongoing migration efforts (off on-premises, Azure, and GCP toward AWS) and throughout steady-state operations.
The ideal candidate combines strong analytical rigor with curiosity about cloud infrastructure and comfort working at the intersection of finance and engineering in a newly formed function.
Responsibilities
FinOps Strategy & Operating Model
- Establish and mature the FinOps operating model across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, implementing cost governance standards across AWS, Azure, GCP, and enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Partner with engineering and architecture teams to build cost considerations into design and migration decisions.
- Maintain FinOps playbooks, policies, and dashboards that drive continuous improvement.
Cost Visibility, Reporting & Unit Economics
- Build spend visibility dashboards broken down by product, product feature, tenant/client, and team—not only aggregate business-unit totals.
- Own the production and delivery of cloud cost reports across all business units and environments.
- Make cloud and AI spend billing data available in analytics and reporting tools, with automated export to finance systems.
- Build unit economics capabilities (cost per customer, per operation, per API request, AI token usage).
- Address multi-tenant attribution across product lines using defensible allocation logic.
- Ensure visibility is never the bottleneck—cost that isn’t visible can’t be managed.
Cost Optimization, Controls & Anomaly Management
- Continuously identify and quantify cost optimization opportunities across cloud vendors using cloud-native tools, including right-sizing compute, identifying idle/abandoned resources, and selecting the right service tier.
- Track and manage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed use discounts across cloud vendors.
- Monitor utilization, identify coverage gaps, and recommend purchases, exchanges, and expirations.
- Track SaaS contract utilization against commitments.
- Define spend alarms based on budgets and forecasts.
- Own anomaly investigations from detection through root cause and resolution to prevent surprises at month-end.
- Identify process improvements that enhance cost transparency.
Financial Planning, Forecasting & Chargeback
- Build cloud and SaaS spend forecasts that incorporate sales forecasts, product roadmap initiatives, and migration/modernization waves.
- Deliver executive-level reporting on spend, trends, and realized savings.
- Support Finance-led chargeback and showback using clean, accurate, well-tagged cost data.
- Own data quality and flag discrepancies before they become Finance’s problem.
Tagging & Governance
- Own the cloud tagging taxonomy and compliance program, including defining standards, monitoring enforcement, and remediating gaps with engineering teams.
- Partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Vendor Management to extend financial controls across cloud and SaaS.
- Support audits with billing and subscription documentation.
FinOps Tooling, Automation & AI
- Administer and continuously improve the FinOps tooling stack; build platform fluency quickly rather than only using what is already configured.
- Adopt AI tooling to automate reporting and anomaly triage and accelerate optimization analysis.
Cross-Functional Enablement & Vendor Collaboration
- Partner with engineering teams, platform pillar leads, and Finance through regular cost reviews.
- Collaborate with Procurement and Vendor Management on cloud and SaaS commercial agreements.
- Serve as the key FinOps point of contact across Technology, Finance, and vendors.
Requirements
- Minimum 5-7 years of related experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, or IT financial analysis, including hands-on experience with cloud cost reporting, allocation, and optimization in a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Deep familiarity with cost and usage data and SQL-based billing analysis, preferably on AWS.
- Strong exploratory data analysis skills to independently investigate anomalies, identify cost drivers, and answer ad hoc questions on spend.
- Experience supporting data center exit and cloud migration programs, including understanding the financial impacts of cloud migration and hybrid cost models spanning on-premises, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS subscriptions.
- Experience in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS company with a multi-tenant architecture, including familiarity with attributing shared infrastructure costs to specific customers or product features.
- Proven experience establishing tagging, chargeback/showback, and cost allocation models across cloud and SaaS ecosystems, using BI tooling such as AWS QuickSight, Tableau, Looker, or similar.
- Strong spreadsheet skills, including the ability to build forecasting models in Excel or Google Sheets.
- Strong knowledge of cloud billing, pricing models, and cost management tools; familiarity with AWS/Azure/GCP savings mechanisms including Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and similar.
- Demonstrated ownership across forecasting, governance, and optimization (not just reporting).
- Experience with AI-assisted analysis or reporting workflows (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot).
- Familiarity tracking AI/LLM token usage and spend as its own cost category.
- Excellent communication skills, translating technical cloud usage into financial insights for executive audiences and influencing without direct authority.
- Detail-oriented, self-directed, and genuinely curious about how engineering decisions translate into cost.
Preferred Qualifications
- FinOps Foundation Practitioner or Professional certification.
- AWS Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification.
- Experience writing SQL or using scripting (Python, PowerShell) to query and process cloud billing data at scale.
- Experience managing SaaS cost governance for enterprise platforms comparable to Splunk, Dynatrace, or Salesforce.
- Background in healthcare IT, health plan administration, financial services, or other regulated industries.
- Experience standing up a FinOps practice or chargeback program from scratch in an organization that previously lacked cloud cost visibility.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and how IaC pipelines relate to cloud resource provisioning and cost attribution.
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual US base salary range: $109,000 to $117,000.
- Final compensation will be determined during the interview process and based on a combination of factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and education.
Location
Employment Details
- Full-time, permanent
- FLSA Classification (USA Only): Exempt
Work Environment / Physical Demands
- Occasionally required to move around an office.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment.
- Long periods of time sitting and/or standing in front of a computer using video technology.
- Travel may be required depending on organizational needs.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity and encourages all qualified persons to apply, including racial and ethnic minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities.
Additional Screening
- Candidates may be required to undergo a pre-employment criminal background check.