FinOps Specialist

Point72 Asset Management, L.P; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully-paid health care benefits

Parental and family leave

Mental and physical wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Non-profit matching gift program

Affinity groups support

Tuition assistance

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Point72 Asset Management, L.P is seeking a senior specialist to optimize cloud cost management and FinOps practices. You will drive cost visibility, budgeting, and governance across cloud, SaaS, and AI workloads in a fast-paced environment.

Join a team that partners with technology, finance, and procurement to align cloud cost strategies with business objectives and driver decision-making in a global firm.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in financial management, cloud ops, or tech cost management, incl. FinOps.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, CS, IT, or related field.
• Strong cloud cost awareness and financial modeling skills.

Responsibilities

• Optimize cloud financial operations to maximize value from cloud and AI workloads.
• Provide insights on cloud spend, SaaS licensing optimization, and AI cost drivers.
• Implement tagging standards and processes for cost visibility and optimization.
• Monitor API consumption and GPU infrastructure for cost trends and optimization.
• Build financial models to forecast cloud, SaaS, and AI expenditures for budgeting.
• Design cost allocation and chargeback models across teams and use cases.
• Educate engineering and business on cloud financial management practices.
• Partner with tech, finance, and procurement to align cost strategies with business goals.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Vendor negotiations

Communication skills

Ethical standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, computer science, information technology, 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.