FINOPS LEAD TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT

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

The FinOps Lead is responsible for making Sekoia’s cloud and Technology & Product economics visible, actionable, and well governed. Reporting to the CFO and working closely with the CTPO, this role acts as a Finance Business Partner for the Technology & Product organization.

The position sits at the intersection of Finance, Product, Engineering, Data, and HR. It is designed to improve financial discipline, model cloud and platform economics, and help teams make better decisions about infrastructure, product usage, resource allocation, and growth.

This role is also accountable for linking infrastructure costs to revenue and cost of revenue, supporting gross margin analysis and unit economics. It requires building trusted relationships with technical teams while contributing a financial perspective to engineering and product decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain tagging strategies, cost allocation models, and dashboards that attribute cloud spend to teams, products, and features.
• Monitor cloud spending, detect anomalies, and drive optimization actions such as rightsizing, commitments, and waste reduction.
• Maintain governance over time through alerts, recurring reviews with Technology & Product teams, and continuous refinement of the allocation model.
• Connect infrastructure costs to revenue and cost of revenue to support gross margin and unit economics analysis, in coordination with the Data team.
• Own the rolling infrastructure cost forecast based on customer growth, usage, product adoption, and architecture changes.
• Work with Product and Tech to assess the cost impact of new products, features, and architectures before launch.
• Model how infrastructure costs scale at different usage levels and compare projected economics with actual production results after launch.
• Support product business cases with cost simulations, pricing scenarios, and profitability estimates.
• Provide visibility into Technology & Product resource allocation across major initiatives, including capacity, fully loaded cost, and change over time.
• Maintain reliable time tracking for subsidized R&D projects, including audit-ready records for tax credit and grant reporting.
• Track and model the cost impact of the Technology & Product hiring plan, including payroll and recruitment costs.
• Provide Finance with a clear view of the fully loaded cost of Technology & Product hires and their impact on the P&L.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience optimizing infrastructure spend in public cloud and/or large-scale hosted environments.
• Experience with one or more of the following environments: AWS, Azure, GCP, or OVH.
• Practical knowledge of billing, cost allocation, rightsizing, and commitments.
• Technical credibility and the ability to challenge Engineering teams on architecture and cost trade-offs.
• Strong understanding of FinOps concepts, including tagging, cost allocation, unit economics, and gross margin.
• Comfort working with data, including SQL and/or cloud cost-management tools.
• Ability to build relevant financial and operational models.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Preferred Skills

• FinOps certification, such as the FinOps Foundation certification or equivalent.
• Understanding of Finance and management control.
• Experience in a B2B SaaS or scale-up environment.
• Understanding of gross margin in a fundraising context.

Data & Analytics

• SQL

FinOps Platforms

• Cloud cost-management tools

FinOps 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.

• Full-time contract.
• Role based in Paris or Rennes.
• Fully remote work is possible.
• Company-paid business travel may be required.

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to shape cloud financial governance in a high-growth environment while working closely with Finance, Product, Engineering, Data, and HR. It combines strategic FinOps ownership with hands-on modelling, forecasting, and cost analysis. The position also provides exposure to product economics, gross margin, and R&D investment decisions. For candidates who want to bring financial rigor to technical and product planning, it is a broad and influential role.