Senior AI FinOps Lead: Enterprise Cost Governance

FinOps Weekly; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Bonus program

RSU grants

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a Lead, Enterprise AI FinOps to establish and run the financial governance for company-wide AI usage. The role delivers visibility into AI spend, budgeting, forecasting, and show-back across multi-cloud, on-premise, and SaaS environments, with executive-level reporting.

The incumbent will own the full budget for the Enterprise AI department, engage Finance, Procurement, Legal, and platform owners, and drive cost optimization while maintaining business value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, technology finance, IT financial management, or enterprise analytics.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, financial reporting, and cost optimization programs.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost models in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Ability to analyze large-scale usage data and convert it into actionable business insights.
• Strong stakeholder management experience across senior leaders, finance partners, and technical teams.
• Experience building dashboards, KPIs, and recurring operating reviews.
• Excellent executive communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently and build operating models and business processes from scratch.
• 7+ years of IT-related work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 9+ years without a bachelor’s degree.
• 4+ years of leadership experience in projects or programs.

Responsibilities

• Establish financial governance for enterprise AI usage.
• Build cost visibility and accountability for AI spend.
• Create and run show-back processes, including allocation for shared AI platforms.
• Own AI budget planning, forecasting, accruals, and vendor cost tracking.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities and recurring waste.
• Support executive reporting on spend, value, adoption, and efficiency.
• Define KPIs for AI consumption health and cost control.
• Develop narratives explaining cost growth, value, adoption health, and efficiency gains.
• Lead recurring reviews with high-usage teams to reduce waste and improve efficiency.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

IT financial management

Enterprise analytics

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Dashboards & KPIs

Cost optimization programs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

SQL

Python

Job description

FinOps Weekly is seeking a Lead, Enterprise AI FinOps to establish and run the financial governance for company-wide AI usage. The role delivers visibility into AI spend, budgeting, forecasting, and show-back across multi-cloud, on-premise, and SaaS environments, with executive-level reporting.

The incumbent will own the full budget for the Enterprise AI department, engage Finance, Procurement, Legal, and platform owners, and drive cost optimization while maintaining business value.