FinOps Practitioner

MEERAB Group; Belgique; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Meerab Group is seeking a FinOps Practitioner to join our Brussels team. You will lead cloud financial governance, budgeting, and optimization initiatives across the organization.

You will collaborate with finance and engineering to establish accurate budgets, forecasts, and chargeback models, educate teams on cost-aware design, and drive continuous cost monitoring with FinOps tooling and automation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud cost management and financial governance.
• Strong ability to create and manage cloud budgets, forecasts, and cost allocation models.
• Excellent communication skills to produce reports for technical and executive stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Belgian and EU financial, security, and reporting regulations.
• Familiarity with FinOps tools and automation (e.g., CloudHealth, Apptio, scripting).

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize multi-cloud usage and costs, implementing techniques such as reserved instances, spot instances, autoscaling, and right-sizing.
• Collaborate with finance teams to establish accurate cloud budgets, forecasts, and chargeback/showback models.
• Produce actionable cost and usage reports for engineering leads and executives while ensuring compliance with Belgian and EU financial regulations.
• Educate engineering and product teams on cost-aware design, FinOps principles, and act as the translator between finance and technology.
• Leverage FinOps tooling and automation to drive continuous cost monitoring, anomaly detection, and reporting.
• Lead coordination and advancement of FinOps initiatives across the organization, prioritizing and following up on improvement actions.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Budgeting & forecasting

Communication skills

Regulatory knowledge

Tools

CloudHealth

Apptio

Scripting

Job description

We are seeking a FinOps Practitioner to join our team in Brussels. You will lead cloud financial governance, budgeting, and optimization initiatives across the organization.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize multi‑cloud usage and costs, implementing techniques such as reserved instances, spot instances, autoscaling, and right‑sizing.

• Collaborate with finance teams to establish accurate cloud budgets, forecasts, and chargeback/showback models.

• Produce actionable cost and usage reports for engineering leads and executives while ensuring compliance with Belgian and EU financial regulations.

• Educate engineering and product teams on cost‑aware design, FinOps principles, and act as the translator between finance and technology.

• Leverage FinOps tooling and automation to drive continuous cost monitoring, anomaly detection, and reporting.

• Lead coordination and advancement of FinOps initiatives across the organization, prioritizing and following up on improvement actions.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud cost management and financial governance.

• Strong ability to create and manage cloud budgets, forecasts, and cost allocation models.

• Excellent communication skills to produce reports for technical and executive stakeholders.

• Knowledge of Belgian and EU financial, security, and reporting regulations.

• Familiarity with FinOps tools and automation (e.g., CloudHealth, Apptio, scripting).

Nice to have

• Hands‑on experience with specific FinOps platforms such as Cloudability or CloudHealth.

• Experience negotiating enterprise cloud contracts and discounts.

• Ability to integrate FinOps practices into CI/CD pipelines and IaC workflows.