Cloud FinOps Lead

Helius Technologies; Singapore; Presencial; SGD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

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

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Budgeting and forecasting

Stakeholder management

Communication

Presentation

Governance

Cost analytics

Herramientas

Microsoft Cost Management

Azure Billing

Power BI

Excel

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Descripción del empleo

Cloud FinOps Lead

We are looking for a Cloud FinOps Lead to establish and drive cloud financial management practices across the organisation, with an initial focus on Microsoft Azure.

This is not purely a billing/reporting role. We are looking for someone who can influence architecture, cloud consumption behaviour, budgeting and operational practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and mature the organisation’s Azure FinOps framework, governance model, policies and standards.
• Define cloud cost ownership across subscriptions, applications, projects and business units.
• Implement and manage showback / chargeback models and cloud cost allocation standards.
• Own cloud cost visibility using Microsoft 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 Azure Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, rightsizing and non-production scheduling.
• Build and maintain cloud 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 cost variances.
• Develop cost models for cloud migrations, new solutions and architecture changes.
• Create dashboards and reports covering spend, forecasts, cost trends, optimisation opportunities and FinOps KPIs.
• Work closely with architecture and engineering teams to incorporate cost considerations into solution design and cloud provisioning.
• Support migration programmes by assessing the financial impact of moving workloads to Azure.
• Introduce cost-aware controls into Infrastructure as Code and cloud provisioning workflows.
• Present cloud cost insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud consumption models.
• Experience with Microsoft Cost Management, Azure billing and cloud cost analysis.
• Good understanding of Azure governance, including subscriptions, management groups, resource groups, tagging, Azure Policy and Landing Zones.
• Experience with Azure Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit and Azure Advisor.
• Strong experience in cloud cost optimisation and identifying inefficient or underutilised resources.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and variance analysis.
• Strong Excel skills; experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools is preferred.
• Ability to analyse cloud usage and billing data and translate it into actionable recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to work across engineering, finance, procurement and business teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Azure Enterprise Agreement, Microsoft Customer Agreement or CSP models.
• Knowledge of PowerShell, Python, KQL, Azure Resource Graph or APIs for cost automation and analytics.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep or Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience embedding FinOps controls into CI/CD and cloud provisioning workflows.
• Knowledge of FinOps Foundation frameworks and practices.
• Exposure to AWS or multi-cloud FinOps.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner / Professional or relevant Microsoft Azure certifications.
• Experience in large enterprise, regulated or complex environments.

Experience

• Typically 5-8+ years of experience across cloud, infrastructure, cloud governance, technology operations or financial management.
• Preferably 2-3+ years of direct Cloud FinOps, cloud cost management or cloud financial governance experience.

Registration No.: R25156061

EA No.: 11C3373