## About the Role

The FinOps Technical Expert will support cloud financial management across two application product lines. The role exists to improve cost transparency, planning, and optimization across cloud services by connecting finance, product, engineering, and operations stakeholders.

This position is focused on strengthening FinOps practices, supporting budget and forecast cycles, and helping establish clear cloud cost optimization targets. The role also contributes to governance and financial accountability across teams while maintaining service quality.

The successful candidate will monitor cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, identify trends and anomalies, and translate findings into clear reporting and recommendations for technical and business audiences.

## Key Responsibilities

– Define and implement FinOps strategies, policies, and practices aligned with organizational standards.
– Support product management and product finance processes, including cost allocation and recharge mechanisms.
– Contribute to budgeting and forecasting cycles, and help establish cloud cost optimization targets.
– Partner with product, engineering, and architecture teams to identify savings opportunities without affecting service quality.
– Drive FinOps governance and encourage financial accountability across teams.
– Track cloud spend and usage across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to identify trends, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.
– Prepare reports and actionable insights for technical and business stakeholders.
– Improve cost tracking, reporting, and optimization through tools and automation.

## Required Skills

– Strong experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud financial analysis.
– Solid understanding of cloud operations, architectures, and billing structures across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
– Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization.
– Familiarity with IT asset management or cost accounting.
– Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn complex data into clear recommendations and presentations.
– Advanced Excel skills.
– Experience using Power BI.
– Experience with IBM Cloudability.
– Excellent communication and collaboration skills across finance, product, engineering, and operations.
– English proficiency at B2 level or above.

## Preferred Skills

– Cloud provider certifications.
– FinOps Foundation certifications.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Azure
– Google Cloud

### FinOps Platforms
– IBM Cloudability

### Reporting & BI
– Power BI

### Collaboration Tools
– Excel

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Define and apply FinOps policies, practices, and governance standards.
– Support cost allocation and recharge processes for product finance.
– Contribute to cloud budgeting and forecasting.
– Set and track cloud cost optimization targets.
– Monitor spend, usage, trends, and anomalies across cloud platforms.
– Identify optimization opportunities while protecting service quality.
– Produce reporting and insights for technical and business stakeholders.
– Improve cost visibility and optimization through automation and tooling.

## Benefits

– Hybrid work arrangement.
– Two days per week on site in Lisbon, Portugal.

## Useful Links

– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4486063483

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of finance, product, engineering, and operations on cloud cost management across multiple platforms. It is well suited to professionals who enjoy combining analytical work with stakeholder collaboration and governance. The position also includes exposure to budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and optimization practices in a multi-cloud environment. Hybrid working in Lisbon adds flexibility to the role.