Position Purpose

The Associate Director, FinOps is accountable for establishing, scaling, and leading the enterprise FinOps practice across both cloud and on-premises technology estates, embedding financial accountability, cost transparency, and value optimization into how technology is consumed, designed, and governed. Acting as the senior bridge between Finance, Platform, and Application teams, the role drives cost visibility through show back and chargeback, owns spend governance, unlocks savings through commitment and optimization strategies, defines cost-aware design guidelines, and partners closely with cloud and infrastructure vendors to bring new cost-saving strategies, stronger governance, and improved cost visibility — while cultivating a durable culture of cost awareness and accountability across the organization.

Your Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to

Cost Visibility, Reporting & Transparency: Build and own enterprise cost visibility across cloud and on-premises estates, delivering accurate, timely,



and decision-ready reporting to Finance, Platform, and Application teams. Design and operate show back models and define chargeback frameworks that fairly and transparently allocate technology cost to business units, products, and services. Establish FinOps KPIs, dashboards, and unit-economics metrics that connect technology spend to business value and consumption.
Spend Governance & Financial Accountability: Define, implement, and enforce spend governance policies, budgets, thresholds, tagging standards, and approval guardrails across the technology estate. Lead budgeting, forecasting, and variance management, proactively identifying cost anomalies, drift, and untagged or unaccountable spend. Drive financial accountability by ensuring every cost has a transparent owner, allocation, and justification.
Savings Enablement & Commitment Management: Enable savings through commitment-based approaches such as reserved instances, sa

📌 Global Lead Fin OPS Technology Operations (India)
🏢 Sandoz India
📍 India