FinOps Lead

Ochsner Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ochsner Health in New Orleans is seeking a FinOps Lead to establish and run the enterprise cloud financial management practice under the Technology Business Manager. You will own cloud governance, cost accountability, forecasting, and savings realization, partnering with Finance, Procurement, engineering, and service owners across Azure, AWS, Snowflake and related platforms.

The role requires leadership, strategic thinking, and hands-on analytics to translate consumption data into measurable

Qualifications

• Must have strong analytical and financial analysis capabilities.
• Ability to translate technical data into actionable business outcomes.
• Experience communicating with executives and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated leadership in enterprise governance and cost optimization.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and financial management concepts.

Responsibilities

• Establish the FinOps roadmap, operating model, governance cadence, 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 connecting consumption to applications and cost centers.
• Lead optimization efforts including rightsizing, waste elimination, and scheduling.
• Produce executive reporting covering cloud spend, forecasts, budget performance, and realized savings.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Stress management

Travel flexibility

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Bachelor’s degree

FinOps Certified Professional or FinOps Certified Practitioner

TBM Certification

Azure/AWS certification

ITIL Foundation

Tools

IBM Cloudability

Apptio

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake

Cloud cost tagging standards

Job description

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, andinnovate.Webelieve that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways.

At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today!

The FinOps Lead establishes and leads the enterprise cloud financial management practice under the Technology Business Manager. This role is accountable for cloud financial governance, optimization strategy, cost accountability, cloud forecasting, savings realization, and cloud-focused executive reporting. The role manages the FinOps Analyst and works with Finance, Technology, Procurement, engineering, application, and service owners across Azure, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, and related consumption platforms.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at the company’s discretion.

Education

Required - High school diploma or equivalent.

Preferred - Bachelor's degree.

Work Experience

Required - 9 years of related experience,

OR

6 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Preferred - 6 years of programming experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Progressive experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, IT financial management, cloud governance, technology operations, or a related discipline, including program leadership.
• Advanced understanding of cloud budgeting, forecasting, allocation, unit economics, commitments, savings measurement, showback, and chargeback concepts.
• Experience leading cross-functional cloud cost governance and optimization activities.
• Ability to translate technical consumption and financial data into actions, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• Leadership experience establishing enterprise governance, executive reporting, and cloud cost optimization practices.
• FinOps Certified Professional or FinOps Certified Practitioner.
• Certified Technology Business Management Executive or equivalent TBM credential.
• Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or cloud financial management certification.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library Foundation certification.
• Working knowledge of IBM Cloudability, Apptio, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, tagging standards, and commitment-management practices.

Key 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.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Proficiency working with databases, online solutions and the programming languages commonly used at the organization’s information services division.
• Analytical skills and ability to use logical thought processes.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under stressful situations with frequent interruptions and frequent changes in priorities.
• Ability to work flexible schedules such as nights, weekends, extended shifts, etc., travel throughout and between facilities, and travel out of town occasionally.

Job Duties

• Performs analysis of assigned applications and business processes/functions.
• Modifies and supports assigned applications/systems as appropriate.
• Partners and communicates with assigned customers/end users.
• Maintains and enhances professional competencies and industry knowledge.
• Performs lead duties.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Physical and Environmental Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Very Heavy Work - Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Heavy Work. (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid.

The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.

Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.

The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Individuals who reside in and will work from the following areas are not eligible for remote work position: Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C.

Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected class, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.