FinOps Practitioner

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

Job summary

MEERAB GROUP in Brussels is seeking a FinOps Practitioner to lead cloud financial governance, budgeting, and optimization across the organization. You will partner with engineering and finance to ensure cost-efficiency and regulatory compliance.

You will monitor multi-cloud usage, build budgets and forecasts, and translate financial insights into actionable guidance for executives and product teams, driving continuous cost optimization and automation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud cost management and financial governance.
• Ability to create and manage cloud budgets, forecasts, and cost allocation models.
• Excellent communication to present reports to 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 with RI/spot autoscaling strategies.
• Collaborate with finance to establish cloud budgets, forecasts, and chargeback/showback models.
• Produce actionable cost and usage reports for engineering leads and executives.
• Educate teams on cost-aware design and FinOps principles across the org.
• Leverage FinOps tooling to drive continuous cost monitoring, anomaly detection, and reporting.
• Lead coordination and progression of FinOps initiatives across the organization.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Financial governance

Budgeting and forecasting

Cost allocation models

Communication with stakeholders

Regulatory knowledge (Belgian/EU)

FinOps tooling and automation

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.