FinOps Specialist | CFM | Porto

Decskill; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International exposure

Professional development

Continuous learning

Job summary

Decskill seeks a Cloud Financial Management | FinOps Specialist for an international project based in Porto. You will monitor cloud and AI spending, improve cost visibility, and identify optimization opportunities.

Collaborate with finance, engineering, operations, and product teams to support governance, forecasting, and decision-making. The role emphasizes FinOps practices, cost reporting, and ROI analyses across cloud environments, with opportunities to work in distributed teams and influence

Qualifications

• Professional experience in Cloud Financial Management, FinOps, or DevFinOps.
• Strong knowledge of cloud service cost management and optimization.
• Experience with cloud pricing models, discounts, and optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and methodologies.
• Experience with cost attribution, showback, forecasting, and amortization.
• Experience identifying cloud cost drivers and optimization opportunities.
• Experience with rightsizing and cloud resource optimization.
• Experience with cloud financial reporting and monitoring.
• Experience developing financial models and cost projections.
• Knowledge of ROI analysis and scenario modelling.
• Experience working with AWS environments.
• Knowledge of Savings Plans and rate optimization.
• Experience integrating FinOps into engineering and delivery processes.
• Familiarity with Policy-as-Code concepts and DevFinOps.
• Experience in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor cloud and AI spending, trends, and cost drivers across products and services.
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly cost reports.
• Identify optimization opportunities and implement rightsizing, waste reduction, and Savings Plans.
• Develop financial models, projections, and ROI evaluations.
• Support FinOps controls, governance, and policy-as-code in delivery pipelines.
• Track optimization results and improve cost-management tools and processes.
• Present insights to technical, financial, operational, and management stakeholders.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost optimization

AWS

DevFinOps

Financial modeling

Tools

Python

SQL

Snowflake

Jupyter Notebooks

Excel

Job description

Cloud Financial Management | FinOps Specialist

About the Role

Decskill is seeking a Cloud Financial Management | FinOps Specialist for an international project based in Porto. The role focuses on monitoring cloud and AI spending, improving cost visibility, and identifying opportunities to optimize cloud resources and services. You will collaborate with business, finance, infrastructure, cloud, engineering, operational, and product development teams. Your work will support financial decision-making, cloud governance, delivery processes, and the adoption of FinOps and DevFinOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and monitor cloud and AI service spending across products and services.
• Identify cost drivers, trends, optimization opportunities, and business-value implications.
• Monitor daily cloud costs and spending patterns.
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly cost reports.
• Improve cloud cost transparency through reporting, showback, and cost attribution.
• Implement cost and resource optimization initiatives, including rightsizing, waste management, rate optimization, discounts, and Savings Plans.
• Track the progress and outcomes of optimization initiatives.
• Support Cloud Financial Management controls and guardrails for operational and product teams.
• Contribute to FinOps and DevFinOps practices across cloud environments.
• Develop financial models, forecasts, projections, and scenario analyses.
• Support ROI evaluation for cloud initiatives.
• Improve tools, processes, and financial and technical data integrations.
• Contribute to Policy-as-Code and FinOps practices within delivery pipelines.
• Present insights and recommendations to technical, financial, operational, and management stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Professional experience in Cloud Financial Management, FinOps, DevFinOps, Cloud Cost Optimization, or a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of cloud service cost management and optimization.
• Experience with cloud pricing models, discounts, and cost optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and methodologies.
• Experience with cost attribution, showback, forecasting, and amortization.
• Experience identifying cloud cost drivers and optimization opportunities.
• Knowledge of rightsizing and cloud resource optimization.
• Experience with cloud financial reporting and monitoring.
• Experience developing financial models and cost projections.
• Knowledge of ROI analysis and scenario modelling.
• Experience working with AWS cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Savings Plans and rate optimization.
• Experience integrating FinOps practices into engineering and delivery processes.
• Familiarity with DevFinOps and Policy-as-Code concepts.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly to different stakeholders.
• Ability to identify continuous improvement and optimization opportunities.
• Ability to work effectively in dynamic and distributed environments.
• Fluency in English.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud cost management tools.
• Experience managing and optimizing AI service costs.
• Knowledge of Cloud Financial Management frameworks.
• Experience implementing FinOps controls and guardrails.
• Experience with data analysis and visualization.
• Knowledge of cloud billing and cost allocation models.
• Experience working with engineering, finance, and business teams.
• Experience supporting product development teams.
• Knowledge of automation for cloud cost analysis and reporting.
• Experience working in international and distributed teams.

Cloud Platforms & Technologies

Cloud Providers

• AWS

Programming & Data

• Python
• SQL
• Snowflake

Analysis & Notebooks

• Jupyter Notebooks
• Marimo
• Excel

Reporting & BI

• AWS QuickSight

FinOps Responsibilities

• Monitor cloud and AI spending, trends, cost drivers, and business-value impact.
• Deliver cost reporting, showback, cost attribution, forecasting, and amortization analysis.
• Identify and implement rightsizing, waste reduction, rate optimization, discount, and Savings Plan initiatives.
• Develop financial models, cost projections, scenario analyses, and ROI evaluations.
• Support cloud cost controls, guardrails, Policy-as-Code, and FinOps integration within delivery pipelines.
• Track optimization results and improve cost-management tools and processes.

Benefits

• Long-term projects with national and international exposure.
• Technical and professional development opportunities in Cloud, FinOps, and DevFinOps.
• Continuous learning and professional development.
• Opportunity to work with cloud technologies and cost optimization initiatives.
• International working environment.
• Teams focused on ownership, collaboration, transparency, trust, and stability.

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to work across cloud financial management, FinOps, DevFinOps, and cloud cost optimization. You will engage with technical, financial, operational, and product stakeholders while contributing to governance, forecasting, reporting, and optimization initiatives. The position also provides access to international projects and ongoing development in cloud and FinOps disciplines.