Job Summary

Experience of 12+ years

The FinOps Lead will drive cloud financial management practices across Azure, AWS and GCP environments. The role focuses on cloud cost visibility, optimization, governance, budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, and collaboration among IT, Finance, Application and Business teams to maximize cloud value while maintaining operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Cost Management

- Analyze cloud spend across Azure, AWS and GCP.
- Establish and maintain cloud cost governance frameworks.
- Develop allocation models and chargeback/showback mechanisms.
- Monitor cloud consumption trends and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Manage budgets, forecasts and variance analysis.

Cost Optimization

- Identify underutilized and oversized resources.
- Drive rightsizing initiatives across compute, storage, database and networking services.
- Optimize Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances and committed-use discounts.
- Implement resource lifecycle management and cloud wastage reduction programs.
- Track and report realized savings.

Governance and Reporting

- Define FinOps policies, standards and operational guardrails.
- Ensure tagging compliance and cloud financial accountability.
- Develop executive dashboards and KPI reports.
- Present optimization recommendations to leadership and application owners.
- Lead governance reviews and cloud cost discussions.

Forecasting and Planning

- Perform cloud demand forecasting and capacity planning.
- Support annual budgeting and financial planning cycles.
- Collaborate with Finance teams on budgeting and cost allocation models.




- Prepare monthly and quarterly cloud spend forecasts.

Stakeholder Management

- Partner with Business, Finance, Engineering, Security and Procurement teams.
- Drive FinOps adoption across multiple application teams.
- Conduct FinOps workshops and awareness sessions.
- Support leadership decision-making through data-driven recommendations.

Automation and Tooling

- Leverage cloud-native cost management tools.
- Implement automated reporting and anomaly detection.
- Drive tagging automation and governance compliance.
- Support integration with Power BI, ServiceNow and FinOps platforms.

Skill Requirements

Cloud Platforms
Microsoft Azure; Amazon Web Services (AWS); Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
FinOps and Cost Management
Cloud cost optimization; budgeting and forecasting; chargeback/showback; FinOps framework; business case and ROI analysis; Reserved Instances and Savings Plans; cloud economics
Tools
Azure Cost Management; AWS Cost Explorer; Google Cloud Billing; Power BI; ServiceNow; CloudHealth or Apptio Cloudability preferred
Technical Knowledge
Compute, storage, database and network services; tagging governance; capacity management; performance optimization; FinOps KPIs and reporting

Must Have Skill

FinOps -GCP

Valuable to Have Skill

Other Requirements

Hands-on experience managing enterprise cloud spend with complex, large-scale budgets.
Strong background in Cloud Operations, SRE, Capacity Management or Cloud Governance.
Experience presenting optimization opportunities to customer leadership and CIO-level stakeholders.
Ability to translate technical optimization initiatives into measurable business value.

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