Senior Executive, Cloud FinOps

MindMerge Consulting; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

MindMerge Consulting in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, seeks a Senior Executive, Cloud FinOps to manage cloud and technology expenditures across AWS, Microsoft, VMware, and software subscriptions. You will work with engineering, finance, procurement, and vendors to ensure accurate cost allocation and governance.

Responsibilities include monitoring usage, building dashboards in Power BI, forecasting, and identifying savings opportunities, rightsizing, and cost transparency across Dev, Test, and Prod

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 3–5 years of Cloud FinOps, cloud operations, and software/subscription governance.
• Strong AWS experience and familiarity with cloud pricing structures.
• Hands-on Power BI, Excel pivot modeling, or other financial visualization tools.
• Experience with budgeting, procurement, and vendor management is advantageous.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage cloud services across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and marketplace consumption.
• Drive cost optimization through shutdowns, rightsizing, and usage optimization.
• Build and maintain billing dashboards and reports using Power BI or Excel.
• Ensure accurate cost allocation and tagging across environments.
• Collaborate with finance, procurement, and engineering for governance.
• Assist sourcing activities including RFI/RFQ/RFP to ensure value.

Skills

Power BI

Analytical skills

Cloud FinOps

Stakeholder management

AWS

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/IT

Tools

Excel

Job description

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia | Posted on 10/23/2026

Our client is a well known leading IT provider in Malaysia and currently looking for a Senior Executive, Cloud FinOps in department IT– Technology, Cloud & Governance, reporting to SeniorManager, CLOUD FINOPS- TECHNOLOGY.

Role Overview: The Senior Executive, Cloud FinOps supports the management andoptimization of cloud and technology-related expenditures across theorganization. This role is responsible for assisting in cloud cost monitoring,billing analysis, forecasting, reporting, vendor administration, and financialgovernance activities across AWS, Microsoft, VMware, software subscriptions,and other technology services.

Theideal candidate possesses a combination of cloud operations knowledge,analytical skills, and financial awareness to support cost optimizationinitiatives and maintain cloud financial transparency. The role works closelywith engineering, finance, procurement, and vendor partners to ensure accuratecost allocation, reporting, and governance.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Financial Operations & Governance

• Assist in monitoring and managing cloud servicesacross IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and marketplace consumption models.
• Support cloud cost optimization activities such as shutting down unusedresources, optimizing storage, rightsizing services, and removing unusedresources.
• Drive savings opportunities to engineering teams,technology leads, and executive stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate tagging compliance and cost allocation records acrossbusiness units and environments.
• Monitor and reconcile monthly usage, cost centreallocations, and service tagging across environments (Dev, Test, Prod).
• Build and maintain billing dashboards and reportsusing Power BI, Microsoft Excel, or equivalent tools.
• Prepare regular cloud financial reports, dashboards, and managementsummaries.
• Assist in identifying spending anomalies, unexpected cost increases, andoptimization opportunities.

Infrastructure & Technical Foundation

• Apply foundational knowledge in infrastructuredomains including server farms, networking, databases, and storage systems.
• Participate in cloud scaling strategies such asscheduled shutdowns, rightsizing, instance consolidation, and auto-scalingpolicies.
• Collaborate with CloudEngineering, Architecture, and Software Engineering teams to optimizecloud deployments for cost efficiency, reliability, and operationaleffectiveness.
• Analyze cloudconsumption trends and prepare recommendations for management review.
• A ssist in sourcingand procurement exercises, including RFI, RFQ, and RFP in closecollaboration with finance and procurement teams to ensure optimal valueand compliance.
• Support the lifecycle of enterprise agreementssuch as AWS EDP, VMWare ELA, Microsoft EA, etc.
• Assist incommercial opportunities including underutilized resources, rightsizing ofcompute and storage, and consolidation of software licenses andsubscriptions.
• Assist in cloudspend efficiency and avoid unnecessary commitments through predictive modellingand usage analysis.
• Support costmanagement, automation, and cross department collaboration to delivermeasurable savings.

Requirements

• A B achelor’s Degree,Post Graduate Diploma, or Professional Degree in Computer Science, SoftwareEngineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–5 years ofrelevant experience in Cloud FinOps, Cloud Operation and software licenses& digital subscriptions (M365, Jira, Grafana, etc.), with a focus onfinancial governance, cost optimization, and vendor management.
• 3-5 years of experiencein cloud operations and engineering, with a strong focus on Amazon Web Services(AWS).
• Experience withfinancial services industry or regulated environments is highly advantageous.
• Exposure to budgeting, cost analysis, procurement, or vendor managementactivities is advantageous.
• Good understanding of cloudservice models and pricing structures with strong focus on AWS.
• Exposure to ReservedInstances, Savings Plans, and cloud cost management practices.
  
• Hands-onexperience with Power BI, Excel pivot modeling, or equivalent financial visualization tools.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
  
• Good understanding tosourcing/tender processes such as RFP/RFQ/RFI.
  
• Experience with cloudengineering and automation and DevOps-related activities is an addedadvantage.
  
• Knowledge of audit, compliance, and security requirements, withexperience implementing controls and preventive measures to meet organizationalstandards.
  
• Good communication and stakeholder managementskills.