Assistant Vice President - FinOps (IT Infrastructure)

Great Eastern; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Singapore is seeking a professional to lead its infrastructure financial operations. This role involves unifying cost management strategies for public and private cloud environments, as well as traditional data centers. Candidates should possess over 5 years of experience in IT Finance or related fields and demonstrate strong knowledge of hybrid environments and financial accountability. This position offers a chance to significantly impact organizational financial practices and drive efficiency across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in IT Finance, Cloud Operations, or FinOps with exposure to hybrid environments.
• Deep knowledge of major cloud provider pricing models.
• Understanding of data center economics and accounting principles.
• Proficiency with FinOps/ITFM tools and advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to explain complex costs to Finance and financial constraints to Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic assessments of existing IT infrastructure.
• Drive formulation of multi-year infrastructure roadmaps.
• Partner with IT, cybersecurity, finance, and business leaders on initiatives.
• Evaluate vendor platforms and solutions, overseeing due diligence and negotiations.
• Build business cases including ROI and TCO analyses.
• Manage the budgeting and forecasting process for infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model.
• Identify and remediate waste and drive rightsizing initiatives.

Skills

IT Finance

Cloud Operations

FinOps

Cloud Economics

Negotiation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Apptio

CloudHealth

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

You will lead our infrastructure financial operations across a diverse infrastructure landscape and responsible for unifying cost management strategies for our public cloud (AWS, Oracle etc), private cloud, and traditional on-premise data centers. You will bridge the gap between DevOps, Engineering, Finance, and Leadership, moving beyond simple cost reporting to drive culture change, financial accountability, and unit economics optimization. You will effectively translate "CapEx" (on-prem) and "OpEx" (public cloud) models into a single, cohesive view of IT spend.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic assessments of existing IT infrastructure, identifying optimization opportunities across data centers, networks, servers, storage, and cloud platforms.
• Drive the formulation of multi-year infrastructure roadmaps aligned with enterprise goals, industry best practices, and emerging technologies. Provide expert guidance on cloud transformation, hybrid infrastructure design, and scalability planning.
• Partner with IT, cybersecurity, finance, and business leaders to ensure infrastructure initiatives are well-integrated, cost-effective, and aligned with business priorities.
• Evaluate and recommend vendor platforms and solutions, overseeing due diligence, RFPs, and contract negotiations as needed. Monitor technology trends and regulatory developments to assess their impact on infrastructure strategy.
• Build robust business cases, including ROI, TCO, and risk analyses, to support strategic investments.
• Lead the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting process for all infrastructure, accounting for cloud usage growth, hardware amortization cycles, and software licensing renewals.
• Develop and maintain a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model that normalizes costs across public cloud (variable OpEx) and on-premise infrastructure (fixed CapEx, depreciation, power, cooling, licensing).
• Define and enforce policies for workload placement—determining financially optimal locations for applications (e.g., "burst to cloud" vs. "steady-state on-prem").
• Manage commitment-based discounts (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, EDPs) across multiple cloud providers.
• Identify and remediate waste (idle resources, orphaned volumes, legacy snapshots) and drive rightsizing initiatives with engineering teams.
• Monitor Kubernetes/ container, Iaas and trad infra costs to ensure accurate allocation of shared cluster resources to specific products or teams.
• Calculate the "fully loaded" cost of on-premise compute and storage (e.g., cost per vCPU, cost per TB) to allow for apples-to-apples comparison with public cloud rates.
• Capacity Planning and Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize hardware utilization rates, delaying unnecessary hardware purchases through better efficiency.
• Analyze maintenance vs. refresh costs to determine the optimal time to retire or migrate aging on-premise hardware.
• Enforce a global tagging and allocation strategy that works across both cloud resources and on-premise assets (e.g., mapping server and compute to business units).
• Deliver actionable dashboards that show engineering teams their spend in near real-time, regardless of where the workload runs.
• Act as a cultural evangelist, training engineering teams on cost‑aware architecture and helping Finance understand technical drivers of spend.

Qualifications

• Possesses 5 or more years’ experience in IT Finance, Cloud Operations, or FinOps, with specific exposure to hybrid environments
• Deep knowledge of pricing models and billing mechanisms for at least one major provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Understanding of data center economics, including hardware depreciation schedules, virtualization (VMware) licensing, and facilities costs.
• Strong grasp of accounting principles (CapEx vs. OpEx, amortization, EBITDA impact).
• Proficiency with FinOps/ ITFM tools (e.g., Apptio, Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost) and native cloud cost consoles.
• Advanced Excel/ Google Sheets skills; experience with BI tools (Tableau, PowerBI) and SQL is highly preferred.
• Basic understanding of Python or scripting to automate data extraction from APIs is a plus.
• Ability to negotiate agreements with software and hardware vendors.
• Ability to explain complex technical costs to Finance and complex financial constraints to Engineers.
• Certifications such as FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP), AWS Cloud Practitioner & ITIL 4 Foundation (specifically Service Financial Management).

How You Succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Who We Are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies.

Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

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Work Locations

SG-GE Changi