An opportunity is available for a Cloud Governance Director focused on establishing and leading the Cloud FinOps practice. This role is critical for optimizing cloud costs, ensuring financial accountability and transparency, and maximizing the business value of cloud investments.

This is a full-time, fully remote position.

Role Summary and FinOps Mandate

The Director is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the FinOps program, requiring a strong understanding of cloud pricing models, financial analysis, and cost optimization levers across the organization’s cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Cost Management and Optimization (35%): The primary focus is on identifying opportunities to save costs and driving initiatives that reduce cloud expenditures without sacrificing performance. This includes using analytical skills to monitor, analyze, and report on cloud usage and spending.
• Cloud Governance Platform (35%): Own and maintain the cloud governance platform used to facilitate FinOps workflows. Develop expertise with the toolset, create reporting capabilities, and communicate cloud spend visibility throughout the organization.
• Financial Accountability: Drive expense transparency across products, customers, and lines of business. Develop and maintain financial models to forecast cloud costs, track spend against budgets, and provide insights into cost trends and anomalies.
• FinOps Strategy Development (10%): Lead the development and implementation of a FinOps strategy, including building and maintaining a cloud financial management framework with budgeting and forecasting.
• Collaboration & Education: Collaborate extensively with finance, engineering, product, and operations teams to align cloud spending with business objectives. Educate and train teams on cloud cost management best practices.

Required Experience and Qualifications

The ideal candidate is a highly experienced professional adept at combining financial analysis, cloud technology expertise (AWS/Azure), and data management skills to drive business value.

• Work Experience: 7 or more years of applicable experience.
• Cloud FinOps Focus: At least 2 years in a role focused on cloud financial management, with strong skills in financial analysis, cloud computing, and data management.
• Technical Aptitude: Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, primarily Azure and AWS, and a solid understanding of cloud platforms and their pricing models.
• Data Proficiency: Proficiency in analyzing data, familiarity with tools like SQL, and creating visualizations with BI platforms.
• Education: A Bachelor’s degree is required (Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred).
• Skills: Excellent communication (ability to communicate technical and financial concepts to diverse audiences), teamwork, problem-solving, and project management skills.