Senior TBM & FinOps Strategy Consultant

IBM; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting seeks a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management. You will make technology costs visible and defensible to CIOs and CFOs, and shape cloud cost allocation and TBM/FinOps practice across engagements.

You will build budgets/forecasts with client finance, drive cost transparency, and guide teams on cost optimization, governance, and investment in AI-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in technology finance or cloud cost advisory roles, including direct experience 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 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 and map cost from GL to applications/services.
• Define the cloud cost allocation, showback and chargeback model for client finance and platform teams to run.
• Design TBM and FinOps practice including roles, governance, and a maturity path for clients.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cloud and software spend, separating one-off savings from structural efficiency.
• Define unit cost metrics and express cloud placement decisions in those terms.
• Incorporate AI model/inference costs into TBM taxonomy and test token yield for production scales.
• Build technology budgets and forecasts with client finance, prioritizing run/grow/transform.
• Clarify TBM/FinOps platform delivery versus governance work across engagements.
• Benchmark technology spend against defensible peer sets.
• Prepare software license positions ahead of renewal windows.
• Track benefits realization against baselines through financial statements.
• Develop business cases from current operation costs to justify value.

Skills

Technology cost advisory

Cloud cost modeling

FinOps

Tech budgeting

Stakeholder management

Education

TBM Certification

FinOps Certification

Tools

Apptio

Cloudability

Kubecost

Turbonomic

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting seeks a Senior Managing Consultant in Technology Value Management. You will make technology costs visible and defensible to CIOs and CFOs, and shape cloud cost allocation and TBM/FinOps practice across engagements.

You will build budgets/forecasts with client finance, drive cost transparency, and guide teams on cost optimization, governance, and investment in AI-enabled solutions.