# Consultant, FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization

## About the Role

This role sits within TransUnion’s GTDA FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization team, which works across technology, finance, and business functions to improve how cloud, AI, and infrastructure spend is understood and governed. The position is focused on turning cost, usage, and capacity data into reporting and insights that support planning, accountability, and value realization.

The team partners with Cloud Engineering, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Finance, Technology Strategy & Governance, and business stakeholders. The goal is to improve cost transparency, capacity planning, optimization tracking, and executive-level decision-making across a large enterprise environment.

This is a hybrid role based in Pune and requires working in person at an assigned TransUnion office location at least two days per week. It is intended for someone who can connect technical infrastructure data with financial analysis and operational governance.

## Key Responsibilities

– Build and maintain dashboards for cloud, AI, and infrastructure cost reporting for leadership, engineering, finance, and business stakeholders.
– Analyze cloud spend, infrastructure usage, capacity trends, cost variances, and optimization opportunities.
– Translate technical cost and capacity data into financial and business insights for executive decision-making.
– Prepare monthly reporting inputs, executive scorecards, and governance materials related to cloud and AI economics.
– Develop capacity utilization reporting across server, storage, database, network, VMware, middleware, and related infrastructure areas.
– Consolidate demand signals from engineering and business teams into forward-looking capacity views.
– Support right-sizing, configuration improvement, query/index optimization, and related performance and capacity analysis with application and platform owners.
– Track cloud commitments, reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, GPU utilization, and similar consumption-based economics.
– Manage the optimization pipeline from opportunity intake through prioritization, implementation, and Finance-validated value realization.
– Identify gaps in spend accountability and help direct ownership to the appropriate teams.
– Support the FinOps governance calendar and align operational changes with finance close, forecasting, budgeting, and planning cycles.
– Work cross-functionally to improve cost transparency, accountability, and measurable outcomes.

## Required Skills

– Experience in cloud financial management, capacity planning, IT finance, infrastructure reporting, or a related analytical field.
– Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, including server, storage, network, virtualization, database, middleware, and common operating systems.
– Strong understanding of infrastructure and business capacity planning, with demonstrated reporting and performance analysis experience.
– Working knowledge of public cloud platforms, specifically GCP and/or AWS.
– Understanding of cloud cost fundamentals, including committed-use discounts, savings plans, tagging, and resource lifecycle.
– Proficiency in Google BigQuery for querying and analyzing cloud cost and usage data.
– Strong analytical skills and proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
– Experience building capacity utilization reports across storage, server, VMware, database, and network infrastructure.
– Ability to manage current usage data and create projected growth estimates from business demand signals.
– Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex infrastructure and cost data to varied audiences.
– Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and deadlines.
– Self-directed working style with the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team.
– Ability to present ideas, make recommendations, and build consensus to move initiatives forward.

## Preferred Skills

– Familiarity with FinOps principles and frameworks.
– FinOps Foundation certification such as FOCP or an equivalent credential.
– Scripting or automation skills such as VBA, PowerShell, or SQL.
– Experience with Splunk or similar observability and analytics platforms.
– Experience integrating cloud economics data into forecasting, budgeting, or chargeback/showback workflows.
– Experience in a federated or matrixed technology organization.
– Familiarity with JIRA or ServiceNow/Remedy.
– Experience with AI/ML or GPU infrastructure cost reporting and governance.
– Experience with cloud cost tooling such as Harness CCM.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– GCP
– AWS

### Cloud Cost / FinOps Concepts
– Committed-use discounts
– Savings plans
– Tagging
– Resource lifecycle
– Chargeback/showback
– Forecasting
– Budgeting

### Data & Analytics
– Google BigQuery
– Splunk

### Reporting & Productivity Tools
– Microsoft Excel
– Microsoft PowerPoint

### Scripting / Automation
– VBA
– PowerShell
– SQL

### Infrastructure Domains
– Server
– Storage
– Network
– VMware
– Database
– Middleware
– Operating systems

### Collaboration / Workflow Tools
– JIRA
– ServiceNow
– Remedy

### FinOps / Cloud Economics Tools
– Harness CCM

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Build reporting and dashboards for cloud, AI, and infrastructure spend visibility.
– Analyze cost, usage, capacity, and variance trends to identify optimization opportunities.
– Support governance reporting, executive scorecards, and monthly operating materials.
– Track commitments, reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, and GPU utilization.
– Support value realization tracking from optimization intake through implementation.
– Align governance activities with finance close, forecasting, budgeting, and planning cycles.
– Improve accountability for cloud and infrastructure spend across engineering, product, platform, finance, and business teams.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology, finance, and business decision-making in a high-visibility enterprise environment. It involves building reporting and governance frameworks that help improve cloud and infrastructure cost transparency, capacity planning, and optimization outcomes. The position also provides cross-functional exposure across engineering, finance, and leadership teams. For candidates with a strong analytical background and interest in FinOps, it is a role with measurable business impact.

## Useful Links

– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4475967462