IT FinOps

Role & responsibilities

Develop and manage the IT FinOps operating model, governance framework,policies, processes, and reporting cadence.

• Assess decision methods for procurement through depreciation, buy vs lease models etc.
• Monitor, analyze, and report technology spend across cloud, SaaS,

infrastructure, licensing, data platforms, and related IT services.

• Partner with finance teams to support budgeting, forecasting, accruals,chargeback, showback, and cost allocation activities.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, application, and operations teams to identify cost optimization opportunities without compromising performance, security, resilience, or business outcomes.
• Implement tagging, cost center mapping, resource ownership, and consumption tracking standards across technology platforms.
• Establish dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to provide actionable insights on spend trends, budget variance, utilization, waste, and savings opportunities.
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives such as rightsizing, reserved instances or savings plans, storage optimization, lifecycle management, license rationalization, and unused resource cleanup.

Preferred candidate profile

12+ years of experience in IT Financial operations, cloud operations, technology finance, IT governance, procurement, or related functions.

• 3+ years of experience in cloud cost management, IT financial management, FinOps, vendor cost governance, or technology spend optimization.

• Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.

• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, cost allocation, and management reporting.

• Strong understanding of IT service models, infrastructure, SaaS licensing, cloud consumption, and technology procurement processes.