Strategic FinOps & Value Realization Lead

D.R. Horton; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Hols

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a FinOps & Value Realization Lead to drive disciplined financial management of data, AI, cloud, and digital investments.

You will ensure investments translate into measurable business value and sustainable economics, linking financial outcomes to unit economics and cost visibility. The role collaborates with Finance, Product, and business leaders to establish value cases, track benefits, and scale successful initiatives while applying evidence-based decisions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Analytics, Business, Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in financial analysis, FinOps, technology finance, value realization, analytics, or related roles.
• Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills with ability to translate technical consumption into business economics.
• Experience with technology budgets, cloud or platform consumption, software licensing, vendor economics, or capital planning.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs.
• Strong ability to challenge assumptions and communicate financial insights to technical and business leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Define value-realization methods connecting baselines, targets, adoption, KPIs, and financial outcomes.
• Partner with Finance, Product, and owners to validate business cases and track realized benefits.
• Establish platform and AI FinOps practices including consumption monitoring, forecasting, budgeting, unit economics, anomaly detection, and cost visibility reporting.
• Analyze build, buy, partner, cloud, on-premises, and managed-service economics and communicate tradeoffs to leadership.
• Create recurring portfolio reporting on investment, run cost, benefits, utilization, and scale decisions.
• Validate realized benefits against approved business cases and prevent duplicate attribution across initiatives.
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, and continuous-improvement activities.

Skills

Financial analysis

FinOps

Value realization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Analytics/Business/Technology

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

AI infrastructure

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a FinOps & Value Realization Lead to drive disciplined financial management of data, AI, cloud, and digital investments.

You will ensure investments translate into measurable business value and sustainable economics, linking financial outcomes to unit economics and cost visibility. The role collaborates with Finance, Product, and business leaders to establish value cases, track benefits, and scale successful initiatives while applying evidence-based decisions