Cloud FinOps Lead: Cost Governance & Savings

ochsner; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ochsner Health seeks a FinOps Lead to establish and guide the enterprise cloud financial management practice. You will oversee governance, forecasting, and savings realization, coordinating with Finance, Technology, Procurement, engineering, and service owners across Azure, AWS, Snowflake, and related platforms.

You will manage a FinOps Analyst, drive cost accountability, and report to executive leadership on cloud spend, budgets, and optimization opportunities, aligning with TBM and governance

Qualifications

• Required: High school diploma or equivalent; Preferred: Bachelor's degree.
• Progressive experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, or related field; TBM knowledge is a plus.
• FinOps Certified or TBM credentials are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish the FinOps roadmap, operating model, governance cadence, decision forums, and performance measures.
• Define cloud financial governance policies, guardrails, ownership standards, escalation paths, and decision rights.
• Lead cloud budgeting, forecasting, variance management, anomaly response, and executive review processes.
• Establish tagging, cost allocation, account hierarchy, and ownership standards that connect consumption to applications, services, environments, cost centers, and business units.
• Lead optimization efforts involving rightsizing, waste elimination, scheduling, commitments, architecture decisions, and resource retirement.
• Ensure savings opportunities are validated, assigned, executed, verified, incorporated into forecasts, and reported as realized value.
• Produce executive reporting covering cloud spend, forecasts, budget performance, allocation, optimization pipeline, realized savings, and governance compliance.
• Align IBM Cloudability information and controls with the Apptio and TBM model.
• Establish performance measures for tagging, allocation quality, forecast accuracy, budget variance, commitment utilization, optimization, and savings realization.
• Integrate financial impact and cost accountability into architecture, service catalog, change, asset, and portfolio governance.
• Lead FinOps stakeholder education, communications, champion networks, and behavioral adoption.
• Set priorities and provide day-to-day leadership for the FinOps Analyst.

Skills

Analytical skills

Databases / data analysis

Programming basics

Verbal communication

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

IBM Cloudability

Apptio

Azure

AWS

Snowflake

TBM / tagging standards

Job description

Ochsner Health seeks a FinOps Lead to establish and guide the enterprise cloud financial management practice. You will oversee governance, forecasting, and savings realization, coordinating with Finance, Technology, Procurement, engineering, and service owners across Azure, AWS, Snowflake, and related platforms.

You will manage a FinOps Analyst, drive cost accountability, and report to executive leadership on cloud spend, budgets, and optimization opportunities, aligning with TBM and governance