FinOps Lead

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

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, and innovate. We believe 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