FinOps Lead / Senior FinOps Consultant

Inetum; EE. UU.; Híbrido; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

FinOps Weekly in the United States leads the FinOps strategy to optimize cloud spend across applications and workloads. You will drive governance, budgeting, forecasting, and analytics that tie cloud usage to business value.

The role partners with IT, Finance, and business areas to mature FinOps practices, improve cost accountability, and support decision-making at scale.

Formación

• FinOps Practitioner certification is required.
• 5+ years in Cloud Governance, FinOps, or IT Financial Management.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, showback/chargeback, and business cases with financial analysis.
• Experience in cost allocation and defining business dimensions.
• Experience analyzing costs by application, product, service, or workload.
• Experience with TCO and unit economics for cloud services.
• Experience with FinOps maturity assessments and roadmaps.
• Experience with reservations, commitments, and cloud financial optimization.
• Strong communication with CIO/CFO and cross-functional teams.

Responsabilidades

• Define and evolve the FinOps governance framework and operating model.
• Lead discovery, assessment, and FinOps model design workshops.
• Build business dimensions, cost allocation models, and accountability principles.
• Develop KPIs, executive dashboards, budgets, forecasts, and chargeback models.
• Connect cloud infrastructure costs to applications, workloads, and business value.
• Identify and prioritize optimization initiatives, including reservations.
• Define and track the FinOps roadmap and evolution backlog.
• Lead FinOps ceremonies to align IT, Finance, and stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into actionable technical needs.

Conocimientos

FinOps Practitioner certification

Cloud Governance

FinOps/ITFM

Azure

AWS

GCP

Budgeting & Forecasting

Showback & Chargeback

Cost Allocation

TCO & unit economics

Maturity assessments

Reservations & commitments

Stakeholder communication

Descripción del empleo

This role is responsible for leading the FinOps strategy and operating model, with a focus on improving visibility, control, and financial optimization of cloud consumption across infrastructure, applications, products, services, and workloads.

The position exists to strengthen collaboration between IT, Finance, Application teams, and business areas, helping the organization make better decisions, increase cost accountability, and mature its FinOps practices over time.

You will define governance, processes, and operating cadences, while also supporting implementation teams by translating business and finance requirements into actionable technical needs. The role also contributes directly to optimization planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis tied to cloud usage and business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the FinOps governance framework and operating model.
• Lead discovery, assessment, and FinOps model design workshops.
• Build business dimensions, cost allocation models, and accountability principles across applications, products, services, workloads, and business areas.
• Develop KPIs, executive dashboards, budgets, forecasts, and showback/chargeback models.
• Connect cloud infrastructure and service costs to applications, workloads, usage patterns, and business value.
• Identify and prioritize optimization initiatives, including reservation and commitment decisions based on cost, performance, and application criticality.
• Define and track the FinOps roadmap and evolution backlog.
• Lead FinOps ceremonies and cadences to keep IT, Finance, Application teams, and business stakeholders aligned.
• Translate business and finance requirements into functional requirements for technical teams.

Required Skills

• FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.
• At least 5 years of experience in Cloud Governance, FinOps, or IT Financial Management.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting, showback and chargeback, and business cases with financial/economic analysis.
• Experience in cost allocation and defining business dimensions.
• Experience analyzing costs and consumption drivers by application, product, service, or workload.
• Experience with TCO and unit economics applied to cloud services and workloads.
• Experience conducting FinOps maturity assessments and defining maturity roadmaps.
• Experience with reservations, commitments, and cloud financial optimization models.
• Ability to communicate effectively with CIO and CFO stakeholders, Cloud and Application teams, Finance, and business areas.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in enterprise or multicloud environments.

FinOps Responsibilities

• Define and manage the FinOps governance framework and operating model.
• Improve visibility and control over cloud consumption.
• Establish business dimensions, cost allocation, and accountability models.
• Build budgeting, forecasting, showback, and chargeback practices.
• Develop executive dashboards and KPI reporting.
• Link cloud spend to business value, usage patterns, and workloads.
• Identify cloud optimization opportunities and support reservation and commitment decisions.
• Maintain the FinOps roadmap and maturity evolution plan.
• Coordinate FinOps ceremonies across IT, Finance, Application teams, and business areas.
• Translate business and finance requirements into technical implementation needs.

– Hybrid working model in Lisbon, Portugal, with 2 days per week on-site.

Why You Might Be Interested

This opportunity offers a leadership role at the intersection of cloud governance, finance, and technology operations. It is well suited to someone who wants to shape FinOps practices across multiple teams and influence budgeting, forecasting, and optimization decisions. The role also provides exposure to senior stakeholders, including CIO and CFO counterparts, and involves work across cloud and application environments. For candidates with a strong FinOps background, it offers the chance to drive maturity, structure, and financial accountability at scale.