Azure FinOps Lead: Cost Governance & Optimization

Helius Technologies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Helius Technologies is seeking a Cloud FinOps Lead to establish and drive cloud financial management practices, with an initial focus on Microsoft Azure. This is not purely a billing role; you will influence architecture, cloud consumption behaviour, budgeting and operational practices.

You will define and mature Azure FinOps framework, ownership models, and cost visibility, building dashboards and reports for stakeholders across engineering, finance and procurement.

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure FinOps and cloud cost management.
• Ability to define cost ownership across subs, apps, projects, business units.
• Experience building showback/chargeback models.

Responsibilities

• Establish and mature Azure FinOps framework, governance, policies and standards.
• Define cloud cost ownership across subscriptions, applications, projects and business units.
• Implement and manage showback/chargeback models and cost allocation standards.
• Own cloud cost visibility using Cost Management, Azure Advisor and other FinOps tools.
• Identify and drive cost optimisation opportunities across compute, storage, databases, containers and PaaS services.
• Manage optimisation strategies such as Reservations, Savings Plans, Hybrid Benefit, rightsizing and non-production scheduling.
• Build and maintain cost optimisation backlogs and track realised savings.
• Support annual and multi-year cloud budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.
• Perform budget-vs-actual and forecast-vs-actual analysis and explain variances.
• Develop cost models for migrations, new solutions and architecture changes.
• Create dashboards and reports covering spend, forecasts, cost trends, optimisation opportunities and FinOps KPIs.
• Work with architecture and engineering to incorporate cost considerations into design and provisioning.
• Support migration programmes by assessing financial impact of moving workloads to Azure.
• Introduce cost-aware controls into IaC and provisioning workflows.
• Present cloud cost insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Budgeting and forecasting

Stakeholder management

Communication

Presentation

Governance

Cost analytics

Tools

Microsoft Cost Management

Azure Billing

Power BI

Excel

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Helius Technologies is seeking a Cloud FinOps Lead to establish and drive cloud financial management practices, with an initial focus on Microsoft Azure. This is not purely a billing role; you will influence architecture, cloud consumption behaviour, budgeting and operational practices.

You will define and mature Azure FinOps framework, ownership models, and cost visibility, building dashboards and reports for stakeholders across engineering, finance and procurement.