Financial Operations Manager

Job Description

What You’ll Be Working On

• Develop and present to the Product Leadership team reusable cost models for new initiatives, influencing product decisions and providing input to business cases
• Provide weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports/analysis of cloud spend, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency
• Build a culture focused on cost optimization and sustainable growth
• Develop a set of best practices and governance to ensure the technical optimization of cloud and third-party services to ensure costs are optimized
• Collaborate closely with the Cloud Operations, Product Engineering, and Product Management teams to understand cloud usage patterns and identify areas for cost optimization
• Partner with Product Engineering teams to drive cost-effective decisions, design cost projection models, analyze costs to understand root causes and lead critical projects to improve cost allocation efficiency
• Work cross-functionally to establish chargeback and show back models for cloud costs
• Model out costs and impact to Cost to serve (CTS) and margins
• Recommend, track, and report on cost optimization opportunities
• Implement and maintain financial governance and controls across cloud platforms
• Own and evolve our reservations and commitments strategy
• Establish and tracking cloud cost optimization KPIs

What You Bring To The Role

• Bachelor’s degree in a technology field, finance field or equivalent work experience
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience, including FinOps management in public cloud cost and optimization
• Strong knowledge of Cloud service providers (ideally AWS and/or GCP/Azure) and their consumption models and billing concepts
• Experience in building financial models including accounting treatment, budgeting and forecasting
• Advanced data, analytical and interpretation knowledge, modelling and defining meaningful KPIs related to technical and cloud expenditure
• Ability to create new business insights from concept through to delivery
• Familiarity with Agile environments (epics / stories / acceptance criteria)
• Tech-savvy or quick learner to adapt to AI tools and a fast-paced tech landscape.