Senior TBM & FinOps Lead—Technology Value

International Business Machines Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting in the United States seeks a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management to make technology costs visible and defensible for CIOs and CFOs, shaping TBM, FinOps, and AI cost strategies across cloud and operating models. This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

You will design cost transparency models, establish cloud allocation and chargeback, build budgets with finance, and lead a team of consultants on cross-functional engagements with enterprise clients.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in technology finance or cloud cost advisory roles.
• Hands-on TBM cost models design and cloud allocation.
• Track record building technology investment business cases.
• Knowledge of FinOps Foundation framework and TBM taxonomy.
• Hands-on TBM/FinOps platform experience and advisory separation.
• Fluency in capital and operating treatment of cloud/software with finance.

Responsibilities

• Design TBM cost transparency using TBM taxonomy for cost visibility from GL to applications.
• Define cloud cost allocation, showback and chargeback models for finance and platform teams.
• Build TBM and FinOps practice including roles, governance, and maturity path.
• Identify savings in cloud software spend across budget cycles.
• Define unit cost metrics (e.g., cost per transaction) for cloud decisions.
• Incorporate AI model/inference cost into TBM taxonomy and assess token yield.
• Develop technology budgets/forecasts with client finance and prioritize run/grow/transform.
• Clarify TBM/FinOps platform deliverables vs. advisory work.
• Benchmark technology spend against defensible peers.
• Prepare software license positions ahead of renewal and renewal windows.
• Track benefits realization against baseline through financial statements.
• Create business cases from current-operating baseline to support risk reviews.
• Lead a team of consultants on cross-functional engagements.

Skills

Tech finance

Cloud cost advisory

TBM framework

FinOps

Cost modeling

Client leadership

Education

TBM Council certification

Tools

Apptio

Kubecost

Turbonomic

Cloudability

Job description

IBM Consulting in the United States seeks a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management to make technology costs visible and defensible for CIOs and CFOs, shaping TBM, FinOps, and AI cost strategies across cloud and operating models. This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

You will design cost transparency models, establish cloud allocation and chargeback, build budgets with finance, and lead a team of consultants on cross-functional engagements with enterprise clients.