IT FinOps

Lider Consultancy Services; Chennai District; On-site; INR 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Lider Consultancy Services is seeking an experienced IT FinOps/Cloud Cost Manager in Chennai to lead the cost governance and optimization across cloud, SaaS, and infrastructure. You will partner with finance and engineering teams to drive budgeting, forecasting, accruals, and cost allocation, while implementing standards for tagging, ownership, and reporting.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years in IT FinOps or related fields, with hands-on Azure experience and a track record of actionable cost

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in IT Financial operations, cloud operations, technology finance, IT governance, procurement, or related functions.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud cost management, IT financial management, FinOps, vendor cost governance, or technology spend optimization.
• Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, cost allocation, and management reporting.
• Strong understanding of IT service models, infrastructure, SaaS licensing, cloud consumption, and technology procurement processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the IT FinOps operating model, governance framework, policies, processes, and reporting cadence.
• Assess decision methods for procurement through depreciation, buy vs lease models etc.
• Monitor, analyze, and report technology spend across cloud, SaaS, infrastructure, licensing, data platforms, and related IT services.
• Partner with finance teams to support budgeting, forecasting, accruals, chargeback, showback, and cost allocation activities.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, application, and operations teams to identify cost optimization opportunities without compromising performance, security, resilience, or business outcomes.
• Implement tagging, cost center mapping, resource ownership, and consumption tracking standards across technology platforms.
• Establish dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to provide actionable insights on spend trends, budget variance, utilization, waste, and savings opportunities.
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives such as rightsizing, reserved instances or savings plans, storage optimization, lifecycle management, license rationalization, and unused resource cleanup.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Budgeting & forecasting

Cost allocation

Cost governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Develop and manage the IT FinOps operating model, governance framework,policies, processes, and reporting cadence.

• Assess decision methods for procurement through depreciation, buy vs lease models etc.
• Monitor, analyze, and report technology spend across cloud, SaaS,
  infrastructure, licensing, data platforms, and related IT services.

Partner with finance teams to support budgeting, forecasting, accruals,chargeback, showback, and cost allocation activities.

• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, application, and operations teams to identify cost optimization opportunities without compromising performance, security, resilience, or business outcomes.
• Implement tagging, cost center mapping, resource ownership, and consumption tracking standards across technology platforms.
• Establish dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to provide actionable insights on spend trends, budget variance, utilization, waste, and savings opportunities.
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives such as rightsizing, reserved instances or savings plans, storage optimization, lifecycle management, license rationalization, and unused resource cleanup.

Preferred candidate profile

12+ years of experience in IT Financial operations, cloud operations, technology finance, IT governance, procurement, or related functions.

• 3+ years of experience in cloud cost management, IT financial management, FinOps, vendor cost governance, or technology spend optimization.
• Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, cost allocation, and management reporting.
• Strong understanding of IT service models, infrastructure, SaaS licensing, cloud consumption, and technology procurement processes.