Senior TBM & FinOps Consultant

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks a Senior Managing Consultant to lead Technology Value Management engagements, making cost and ROI of technology visible to CIOs and CFOs. You will apply TBM and FinOps practices to cloud, AI, and software spend, guiding budgets and strategic decisions.

Lead client workstreams, design cost models, and build business cases from a solid baseline. You will mentor teams and ensure measurable financial impact across engagements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in technology finance or cloud cost advisory roles, including leading client workstreams.
• Hands-on experience designing TBM cost models or cloud allocation and chargeback models, handing them over to client teams to run.
• A record of building technology investment business cases from a measured baseline that client finance accepted.
• Working knowledge of the FinOps Foundation framework and the TBM taxonomy.
• Hands-on experience with at least one TBM or FinOps platform, separating deliverables from advisory work.

Responsibilities

• Design technology cost transparency using TBM taxonomy across GL to apps and services.
• Define cloud cost allocation, showback and chargeback models for client teams.
• Build TBM and FinOps practice including roles, governance, and maturity path for clients.
• Identify cloud/software spend reduction opportunities across budget cycles.
• Define unit cost metrics and express cloud placement decisions accordingly.
• Incorporate AI model costs and token yield into TBM framework for economics.
• Develop technology budgets and forecasts with client finance across run/grow/transform.
• Clarify platform deliverables versus governance in TBM/FinOps implementations.
• Benchmark spend against defensible peers while avoiding benchmarking as target.
• Prepare software license positions ahead of renewals.
• Track benefits realization against baselines in business cases.

Skills

Technology cost advisory

TBM cost models

Cloud cost allocation

FinOps

Cost transparency

Data driven analysis

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Apptio

Cloudability

Kubecost

Turbonomic

Job description

IBM Consulting seeks a Senior Managing Consultant to lead Technology Value Management engagements, making cost and ROI of technology visible to CIOs and CFOs. You will apply TBM and FinOps practices to cloud, AI, and software spend, guiding budgets and strategic decisions.

Lead client workstreams, design cost models, and build business cases from a solid baseline. You will mentor teams and ensure measurable financial impact across engagements.