Senior TBM & FinOps Lead - Technology Value

International Business Machines Corporation; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting is seeking a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management to make technology costs visible and defensible for CIOs and CFOs. You will lead cloud cost advisory, TBM and FinOps programs, and design cost transparency frameworks across budgets, applications and services.

You will build budgets, define allocation models, benchmark spend, and guide client teams through governance and procurement.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in technology finance or cloud cost advisory roles, including direct experience leading client workstreams.
• Hands-on experience designing Technology Business Management cost models or cloud allocation and chargeback models, and 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 Technology Business Management taxonomy.
• Hands-on experience with at least one TBM or FinOps platform, and the ability to separate what the platform delivers from the advisory work around it.
• Fluency with capital and operating treatment of cloud and software, and comfort working directly with finance functions.

Responsibilities

• Design TBM cost transparency using the Technology Business Management taxonomy, mapping general ledger cost through to applications and services.
• Define the cloud cost allocation, showback and chargeback model that client finance and platform teams then run under the FinOps Foundation framework.
• Define the TBM and FinOps practice that keeps those models running: roles, decision rights, review cadence and a maturity path the client can follow after the engagement ends.
• Identify where cloud and software spend can be reduced, separating one-off savings from structural efficiency that holds across a budget cycle.
• Define unit cost metrics such as cost per transaction or per customer, and express cloud placement decisions in those terms.
• Bring AI model and inference cost into the same taxonomy, and test token yield: whether AI use cases remain economically viable at production volume.
• Build technology budgets and forecasts with client finance, and prioritize investment across run, grow and transform.
• Define how TBM and FinOps platforms are used across the engagement, separating what the platform delivers as standard from the taxonomy, allocation and governance work it can't do.
• Benchmark technology spend against defensible peer sets, without letting the benchmark become the target.
• Prepare software license positions ahead of renewal, timed to the negotiating window.
• Track benefits realization against the baseline set in the business case through to the financial statements.
• Build technology and AI business cases from a measured baseline of how the work runs today, the cost of controls and compliance, so the return a client is promised survives a risk review.
• Manage a team of consultants and work alongside cloud and operating model colleagues on joint engagements.

Skills

Tech finance

Cloud cost advisory

Cost modeling

TBM framework

FinOps

Team leadership

Client engagement

Financial analysis

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Apptio

Cloudability

Kubecost

Turbonomic

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting is seeking a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management to make technology costs visible and defensible for CIOs and CFOs. You will lead cloud cost advisory, TBM and FinOps programs, and design cost transparency frameworks across budgets, applications and services.

You will build budgets, define allocation models, benchmark spend, and guide client teams through governance and procurement.