FinOps Specialist

Point72; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Parental and family leave policies

Wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Non-profit matching gifts

Affinity groups support

Tuition assistance

401(k) employer match

Job summary

Point72’s Technology team is transforming the firm's IT infrastructure, embracing open-source solutions, cloud architectures, and AI-powered platforms. This role focuses on cloud financial operations, AI/ML cost management, and cost visibility to optimize investments across cloud and SaaS workloads.

You will collaborate with engineering, finance, and procurement to align cost strategies with business goals and deliver measurable impact for a global multi‑billion-dollar business.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in financial management, cloud operations, or technology cost management, including 3+ years in FinOps
• Bachelor's degree in finance, CS, IT, or related field
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and their cost structures
• Familiarity with AI/ML cost structures, including GPU instances and managed AI platforms
• Proficiency in financial analysis and modeling for forecasting, budgeting, and vendor negotiations
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to visualize insights for decision-making
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; strong communication and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Optimize cloud financial operations to maximize value from cloud investments, including AI/ML workloads
• Provide actionable insights on cloud spend, SaaS license optimization, and cost drivers
• Implement tooling and tagging standards to improve cost visibility across cloud, SaaS, and AI workloads
• Monitor LLM API consumption and GPU infrastructure to identify cost trends and opportunities
• Build financial models to forecast cloud, SaaS, and AI expenditures for budgeting and vendor negotiations
• Design cost allocation, tagging, showback, and chargeback models to attribute spend to teams and apps
• Educate engineering and business owners on cloud financial management practices
• Partner with tech, finance, and procurement to align cost strategies with business objectives

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost mgmt

Financial analysis

Data visualization

Stakeholder communication

Vendor negotiations

Cost modeling

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or related field

Job description

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.

As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.

What you’ll do

• Optimize cloud financial operations to maximize value from cloud investments, including rapidly growing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads
• Provide actionable insights on cloud spend, SaaS license optimization, and emerging AI cost drivers, including model inference and usage-based consumption
• Implement tooling, tagging standards, and processes that improve cost visibility and optimization across cloud, SaaS, and AI workloads
• Monitor large language model API consumption and GPU-intensive infrastructure to identify cost trends, anomalies, and optimization opportunities
• Build financial models to forecast cloud, SaaS, and AI expenditures for budgeting cycles, commitment decisions, and vendor negotiations
• Design cost allocation, tagging, showback, and chargeback models that attribute spend to the teams, applications, and use cases driving it
• Educate engineering and business owners on cloud financial management practices that build cost-conscious habits around resource and license consumption
• Partner across the firm’s technology, finance, and procurement teams to align cloud and technology cost strategies with business objectives and firmwide planning

What’s Required

• 7+ years of relevant experience in financial management, cloud operations, or technology cost management, including at least three years of hands‑on FinOps experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, computer science, information technology, or a related field
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, and their cost structures
• Familiarity with cost structures for artificial intelligence and machine learning services, including GPU instances, managed AI platforms, and large language model API usage
• Proficiency in financial analysis and modeling for forecasting, budgeting, commitment decisions, and vendor negotiations
• Strong data analysis skills, including querying and manipulating large datasets and building clear visualizations for stakeholder decision-making
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills for identifying cost drivers, trends, and optimization opportunities
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well‑being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non‑profit matching gift program
• Support for employee‑led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor‑led culture and committing to our people's long‑term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.

The annual base salary range for this role is $170,000-$250,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.