Strategic AI FinOps Leader

CVS Health Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a visionary Lead Director of AI FinOps to establish an enterprise-wide AI FinOps capability. This senior role will govern how AI investments are planned, financed, and optimized, partnering with Engineering, Finance, and Product to deliver transparency and accountability across cloud and on-prem environments.

The ideal candidate will bring 10+ years in FinOps and 2+ years building AI cost governance programs, translating complex cost drivers into actionable insights for

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, technology finance, or a related discipline within large-scale enterprise environments.
• 5+ years of experience building and scaling FinOps programs from inception, including defining operating models, governance frameworks, enterprise adoption strategies.
• 2+ years of experience in AI cost governance, including cost attribution, forecasting, financial controls, and optimization for AI model training, fine-tuning, inference workloads, and AI platform services.
• 2+ years of experience implementing chargeback and showback models that accurately allocate AI spend across business units, products, or teams.
• 2+ years of experience working with enterprise AI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, Vertex AI).

Responsibilities

• Design and build the enterprise AI FinOps program from the ground up across Engineering, Finance, and Product organizations.
• Develop and operationalize AI cost governance processes, including tagging and allocation policies, anomaly detection, budget controls, and automated reporting pipelines for model training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.
• Design and implement chargeback and showback models that allocate AI spend to business units, products, and teams with cost accountability.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of AI FinOps tooling across major cloud platforms and third-party providers.
• Deliver executive-level financial reporting and insights translating AI cost data into narratives for C-suite and board audiences.
• Partner with Engineering, Procurement, and Finance leadership to drive continuous AI spend optimization.
• Establish and lead an AI FinOps Center of Excellence, defining roles, processes, and scalable governance policies.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost governance

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

AI platform costs

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Azure AI

Vertex AI

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Job description

CVS Health is seeking a visionary Lead Director of AI FinOps to establish an enterprise-wide AI FinOps capability. This senior role will govern how AI investments are planned, financed, and optimized, partnering with Engineering, Finance, and Product to deliver transparency and accountability across cloud and on-prem environments.

The ideal candidate will bring 10+ years in FinOps and 2+ years building AI cost governance programs, translating complex cost drivers into actionable insights for