Senior TBM & FinOps Consultant: Cloud Cost & AI Value

International Business Machines Corporation; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting in the United States seeks a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management to make technology costs visible to CIOs and CFOs. You will design TBM/FinOps models, define cloud allocation, and build budgets and forecasts for client engagements.

You will lead a team of consultants, benchmark spend, and help clients realize cost efficiencies across run, grow, and transform initiatives. This role can be performed remotely from anywhere in the US.

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, and handing them over to client teams to run.
• A track record of building technology investment business cases from a measured baseline accepted by client finance.
• Knowledge of the FinOps Foundation framework and the TBM taxonomy.
• Hands-on experience with at least one TBM or FinOps platform, and ability to separate platform delivery from advisory work.
• Fluency with capital and operating treatment of cloud and software, and comfort working with finance functions.

Responsibilities

• Make the cost and return of client technology visible and defensible to CIOs and CFOs.
• Design TBM and FinOps practices, including roles, governance, and a maturity path for post-engagement use.
• Define cloud cost allocation, showback and chargeback within the FinOps framework.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cloud and software spend, distinguishing one-off savings from structural efficiency.
• Benchmark technology spend against defensible peers and prepare license positions for renewal.
• Lead a team of consultants across cloud, TBM, and operating model engagements.

Skills

Technology Finance

Cloud Cost

FinOps

TBM

Cost Modeling

Leadership

Tools

Apptio

Cloudability

Kubecost

Turbonomic

Job description

IBM Consulting in the United States seeks a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management to make technology costs visible to CIOs and CFOs. You will design TBM/FinOps models, define cloud allocation, and build budgets and forecasts for client engagements.

You will lead a team of consultants, benchmark spend, and help clients realize cost efficiencies across run, grow, and transform initiatives. This role can be performed remotely from anywhere in the US.