# Strategic FinOps Manager (m/f/d)

– **Location:** Karlsruhe, Münster, or Munich (Aschheim)
– **Working pattern:** Full-time or part-time from 30 hours per week
– **Team:** 16 colleagues working across locations

## About the Role

You will join the Service Field Software Development and Governance (SDG) within the Tribe Demand, Value and FinOps Management (SDGDVF). Since 2026, FinOps has been established as a central service to create technical and financial transparency across services, costs, and value.

The role sits within the Atruvia Trusted Tech Foundation (ATTF) and focuses on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments. It is designed to build governance, measurement, and value-based steering capabilities rather than traditional budget controlling.

You will work closely with service fields, Finance and Controlling, as well as Architecture and Operations teams. The aim is to make cost, utilization, efficiency, and business value visible and usable for portfolio decisions.

## Key Responsibilities

– Build and further develop the central FinOps service within ATTF.
– Define the FinOps governance framework, including roles, processes, standards, and metrics.
– Advise business and service teams on cost, economic viability, and value contribution for new demands and strategic initiatives.
– Develop and improve measurement methods across products and services, and integrate them into ATTF value management.
– Ensure consistent cost and resource measurement across on-premises, private cloud, and hyperscaler environments, including TCO and scenario comparisons.
– Create standardized reports and dashboards for internal stakeholders and decision-makers.
– Work with cross-functional teams to embed FinOps parameters into demand and value structures.

## Required Skills

– Degree in business informatics, IT architecture, or IT system development, or an equivalent qualification.
– More than 6 years of relevant professional experience.
– Experience in FinOps, cloud or hybrid-cloud management, or IT financial management in complex technical environments.
– Strong understanding of FinOps as a way to manage value and economic performance across hybrid and multi-cloud landscapes, including on-premises environments.
– Confident use of Excel, SQL, or Power BI.
– Ability to analyze large data sets from multiple sources.
– German at C1 level or higher.
– English at B2 level.
– Strong analytical, structured, and data-driven working style.
– Strong communication skills and conflict-handling ability.

## Preferred Skills

– Experience with SAP.
– Experience with FinOps or cost management solutions.
– Relevant certifications such as FinOps Certified Practitioner or Cloud Engineer / Solution Architect.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers & Environments
– Public Cloud
– Private Cloud
– On-Premises
– Hyperscalers

### Data & Analytics
– Excel
– SQL
– SAP

### Reporting & BI
– Power BI

### FinOps / Cost Management
– FinOps
– FinOps governance
– FinOps / cost management solutions

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Establish a central governance model for FinOps across the ATTF portfolio.
– Provide guidance on cost, economic viability, and value for cloud, private cloud, and on-premises scenarios.
– Improve measurement methods for products and services and integrate them into value management.
– Compare costs and resource usage consistently across on-premises, private cloud, and hyperscaler environments.
– Support TCO analysis and scenario comparisons.
– Develop standardized dashboards and reports for decision support.
– Embed cost, utilization, efficiency, and business value into demand and value structures.

## Benefits

– Attractive collective-agreement salary and 30 days of annual leave.
– Hybrid working model with a mix of remote work and on-site presence in modern office environments.
– Flexible working-time options, including part-time and full-time models between 30 and 40 hours per week.
– Working-time account with options such as sabbatical leave or pre-retirement leave.
– Family budget and support in special family situations, including caregiving.
– Company pension plan with employer contribution.
– Choice of bike leasing, IT hardware leasing, capital-forming benefits, or an additional day off, plus further options.
– Structured onboarding with a buddy, regular feedback sessions with your People Lead, and a welcome event.
– Health, family, and life support services, including partnerships with Familiengenossenschaft and voiio.
– Company restaurants and sports offerings.
– Development discussions and a broad range of training opportunities.
– Job security within a cooperative employer with decades of experience.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to help build a central FinOps service with portfolio-wide impact across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments. It combines governance, measurement, reporting, and value management in a position closely connected to Finance, Controlling, Architecture, and Operations. The scope is well suited to someone who wants to shape how cost, efficiency, and business value are managed in a complex technical setting. Flexible working arrangements, a hybrid setup, and development opportunities add to the appeal.