FinOps Lead: Cloud Economics & Product Profitability

FinOps Weekly; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sekoia is seeking a FinOps Lead to make cloud and Technology & Product economics visible, actionable, and well governed. You will partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, Data, and HR to improve financial discipline, model cloud economics, and guide infrastructure decisions.

You will link infrastructure costs to revenue and support gross margin analysis while building trusted relationships with technical teams and contributing a financial perspective to engineering and product decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience optimizing infrastructure spend in public cloud and/or large-scale hosted environments.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OVH.
• Knowledge of billing, cost allocation, rightsizing, and commitments.
• Technical credibility to challenge Engineering on architecture and cost trade-offs.
• Strong FinOps understanding: tagging, cost allocation, unit economics, gross margin.
• Data-oriented, with SQL and cloud cost-management tooling.
• Ability to build financial and operational models.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage cloud cost allocation and tagging practices.
• Monitor cloud spend and investigate anomalies.
• Drive optimization initiatives, including rightsizing, commitments, and waste reduction.
• Maintain cloud cost governance through alerts and recurring reviews.
• Build and maintain infrastructure cost forecasts.
• Model unit economics and gross margin implications of cloud spend.
• Assess the cost impact of new products, features, and architecture decisions.
• Develop pre-launch cost models and reconcile them against actual production economics.
• Support product pricing, profitability analysis, and business cases.
• Track fully loaded Technology & Product resource costs and hiring-related cost growth.
• Maintain time tracking and audit trails for subsidized R&D projects.

Skills

Cloud cost optimization

Public cloud platforms

Billing & cost allocation

Technical credibility

FinOps concepts

SQL

Data modeling

English fluency

Tools

Cloud cost-management tools

Job description

Sekoia is seeking a FinOps Lead to make cloud and Technology & Product economics visible, actionable, and well governed. You will partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, Data, and HR to improve financial discipline, model cloud economics, and guide infrastructure decisions.

You will link infrastructure costs to revenue and support gross margin analysis while building trusted relationships with technical teams and contributing a financial perspective to engineering and product decisions.