# FinOps Manager (F/H)

## About the Role

Reporting to the CIO/IT leadership team, this role is responsible for overseeing and optimizing IT spending in a context of growing cloud and AI usage, with a particular focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AI-related costs. The position is intended to strengthen cost control, improve visibility across IT expenditure, and support more informed financial decision-making within the IT organization.

You will work closely with technical teams, Finance, Purchasing, and the CIO Office to build and sustain FinOps practices across cloud, AI, software licenses, SaaS subscriptions, IT services, and project/run spend. A key part of the role is to help embed a stronger financial accountability culture across the IT department.

The role also serves as the FinOps reference point for cloud and AI cost topics, contributing to reporting, governance, budgeting, forecasting, and corrective action plans.

## Key Responsibilities

– Analyze GCP consumption and billing by project, service, environment, and team.
– Build dashboards, KPIs, and alerts to monitor cloud costs and identify optimization opportunities.
– Support technical teams with cost optimization actions, including rightsizing, autoscaling, and cost-efficient service and architecture choices.
– Track Google Cloud contractual commitments and help optimize their usage.
– Monitor AI-related costs, including APIs, models, tokens, infrastructure, and licenses.
– Define cost indicators by usage and use case, and contribute to ROI evaluation.
– Support teams in model selection, usage optimization, and quota management.
– Contribute to AI spending governance with the CIO Office.
– Deploy FinOps best practices across IT spend, including cloud, AI, licenses, run, and projects.
– Contribute to IT budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis in partnership with Finance.
– Help optimize contracts, licenses, SaaS subscriptions, and IT services with Purchasing.
– Educate and support IT teams on FinOps practices and cost tracking tools.
– Promote financial accountability and cost-aware decision-making across the IT organization.
– Produce IT cost reporting, track realized savings, and flag budget deviations.
– Propose corrective action plans and contribute to governance committees, budget reviews, and FinOps meetings.

## Required Skills

– Master’s degree or equivalent Bac+5 from an engineering school or university, with a specialization in finance, information systems, or computer science.
– At least 10 years of experience in FinOps, IT management control, or cloud cost management.
– Strong analytical and synthesis skills.
– Strong communication, teaching, and persuasion skills.
– Ability to work cross-functionally.
– Solid knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, including billing and cost tracking tools such as Cloud Billing and BigQuery.
– Understanding of FinOps principles and framework.
– Understanding of AI-related cost drivers, including APIs, infrastructure, and models.
– Proficiency in reporting and data visualization tools, including Power BI and advanced Excel.
– Knowledge of management control and analytical accounting.
– Professional English.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

### FinOps Platforms
– Cloud Billing

### Data & Analytics
– BigQuery

### Reporting & BI
– Power BI
– Excel

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Analyze and control cloud spending across projects, services, environments, and teams.
– Build dashboards, KPIs, and alerts for cloud cost monitoring.
– Identify and support optimization opportunities, including rightsizing and autoscaling.
– Track and optimize contractual cloud commitments.
– Monitor and manage AI-related costs across APIs, models, tokens, infrastructure, and licenses.
– Define cost indicators by use case and contribute to ROI assessment.
– Support budget planning, forecasting, and variance analysis.
– Work with Purchasing to optimize contracts, licenses, SaaS subscriptions, and IT services.
– Produce cost reporting, track savings, and flag budget overruns.
– Contribute to FinOps governance and corrective action planning.

## Benefits

– Hybrid working arrangement.
– Profit-sharing and incentive scheme.
– RTT leave.
– Supportive and personalized management.

## Useful Links

– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4478977733
– Application: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4478977733

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers a strong FinOps scope spanning cloud, AI, software, SaaS, and broader IT spend. It sits close to both technical teams and Finance, which gives the position real influence on budgeting, optimization, and governance. The focus on GCP and AI cost management makes it especially relevant for professionals working at the intersection of cloud economics and IT financial control. The employer also highlights a hybrid setup and an established framework of employee benefits.