## About the Role

Ivy Partners is hiring a Senior FinOps Technical Expert to strengthen cloud financial management across product teams. The role sits at the intersection of finance, engineering, and operations, with responsibility for helping teams make informed decisions about cloud usage, budgeting, and forecasting.

You will work with product, engineering, and architecture stakeholders to identify cost optimization opportunities, improve transparency around cloud spend, and support the implementation of FinOps practices and policies. The position also includes contributing to budgeting and forecasting processes, as well as supporting recharging mechanisms for product teams.

A key part of the role is to help build accountability for cloud spending across multiple cloud platforms. You will provide reporting and insights, support cost optimization efforts, and help ensure that financial considerations are integrated into technical decisions without compromising service quality.

## Key Responsibilities

– Implement FinOps best practices, policies, and standards to control cloud spending.
– Act as a bridge between finance, engineering, and operations on cloud cost management, budgeting, and forecasting.
– Challenge application teams on infrastructure decisions from a cost and efficiency perspective.
– Support product teams with financial processes, including recharging mechanisms.
– Contribute to budget and forecast planning, as well as cost optimization target setting.
– Review FinOps optimization opportunities and support implementation across product teams.
– Monitor and analyze cloud costs and usage across multiple cloud platforms.
– Produce regular reporting and insights on cloud spend, trends, and anomalies.
– Build cross-functional communication to encourage financial accountability.
– Implement tools and automation for cost tracking, reporting, and optimization.
– Stay current on cloud pricing trends, platform capabilities, and FinOps practices.

## Required Skills

– 5 to 7 years of experience as a FinOps expert.
– Experience in a large organization, ideally.
– Strong technical or engineering background.
– Professional experience with cloud platforms, particularly Azure and AWS.
– Proven experience delivering cloud cost-reduction initiatives.
– Ability to assess, implement, and track FinOps actions.
– Strong stakeholder management skills.
– Ability to influence application owners with diplomacy and assertiveness.
– Fluent English.

## Preferred Skills

– Portuguese language skills.
– Experience with IBM Cloudability.
– FinOps or cloud certifications.
– Experience in the insurance sector.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Azure
– AWS
– Multi-cloud environments

### FinOps Platforms
– IBM Cloudability

### Tools & Automation
– Cost tracking tools
– Reporting automation
– Cost optimization automation

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Improve cloud cost visibility and transparency across product lines.
– Implement cost management, budgeting, and forecasting practices.
– Support budget and forecast processes and cost optimization target setting.
– Identify and help deliver cloud cost optimization opportunities.
– Provide reporting on spend, trends, and anomalies.
– Support financial accountability through cross-functional collaboration.
– Contribute to recharging mechanisms for product teams.
– Track cloud costs and usage across multiple cloud platforms.
– Use tools and automation to support cost control and reporting.

## Useful Links

– Job Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4466057500
– Application Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4466057500

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of finance, technology, and operations in a senior FinOps capacity. It combines cloud cost optimization, reporting, forecasting, and stakeholder influence across product, engineering, and architecture teams. The position also includes exposure to multiple cloud platforms, with Azure and AWS specifically mentioned, and the chance to contribute to financial accountability at scale.