Cloud Financial Governance & Optimization
Monitor, analyze, and optimize multi-cloud usage and costs.
Implement optimization techniques (reserved instances, spot instances, autoscaling, right-sizing).
Define and enforce cloud financial governance standards, including tagging, cost Allocation, and budget controls.
Track vendor pricing changes and assess impact on budgets and forecasts.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Cost Management
Collaborate with finance teams to establish accurate cloud budgets and forecasts.
Implement chargeback and showback models to align costs with consumption.
Ensure cloud spend aligns with strategic and financial targets.
Support cost scenario planning to evaluate business cases for cloud adoption.

Reporting & Compliance
Produce actionable cost and usage reports for stakeholders at multiple levels (engineering leads, executives).
Ensure compliance with Belgian and EU financial, security, and reporting regulations applicable to public companies.
Define reporting standards to ensure transparency and predictability of cloud spend, in full alignment with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).

Collaboration, Training & Advocacy
Educate engineering and product teams on cost-aware design and FinOps principles.
Partner with procurement to negotiate contracts, enterprise agreements, and discounts.
Act as the ‘translator’ between finance and technology, fostering a shared language and goals.

Tooling & Automation
Leverage FinOps tooling and automation to ensure effective monitoring, governance, and continuous optimization of cloud costs.
Automate spend monitoring, anomaly detection, and reporting.
Integrate FinOps practices into CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
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