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Director, Financial Systems

Lead FinOps strategy and cloud financial governance across GCP and AWS. Manage AI cost frameworks, vendor negotiations, forecasting, and build a cost-conscious engineering culture.

155k – 244k/yr
On-site5+ YOEFinance & Accounting

About the role

What You'll do

  • Global Cloud Governance: Lead the centralized FinOps strategy across an international multi-cloud footprint, focusing heavily on GCP and AWS optimization.
  • Unit Economics Modeling: Design and maintain sophisticated cost-allocation frameworks for all shared cloud resources, translating complex multi-tenant consumption into transparent, actionable product margins.
  • AI Economic Stewardship: Manage the financial impact of our AI roadmap. Oversee current model consumption costs and build the fiscal framework for the transition into building and training custom models.
  • Forecasting & Tooling Ownership: End-to-end management of cloud budgets and third-party hosting licenses, leveraging variance analysis and capacity planning to translate dynamic engineering metrics into predictable, accurate financial forecasts.
  • International Vendor Management: Act as the primary lead for global vendor relationships. Drive enterprise negotiations, contract renewals, and strategic partnerships to maximize value across different international regions.
  • Strategic Reporting: Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership to provide "Cloud TCO" visibility, leveraging both industry-standard platforms and custom in-house tooling.
  • Team Leadership: Lead the development of the FinOps team, mentoring and fostering their technical growth and career progression.

What you bring

  • 5+ years in technology operations, procurement, or cloud finance, with at least 2–3 years of experience in a formal people management or leadership role.
  • Demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between Finance, DevOps/SRE, R&D and Product teams, fostering a cost-conscious engineering culture without bottlenecking innovation or deployment speed.
  • Proven experience with production-grade environments in GCP and AWS, including deep knowledge of billing, commitment models, and discount structures.
  • Deep technical expertise across modern cloud ecosystems, including Kubernetes resource management, serverless compute, storage lifecycle tiering, and managed databases with a proven ability to translate complex architectural configurations into optimized unit economics.
  • A track record of operating successfully in a decentralized management structure, negotiating high-value, international contracts with major technology providers.
  • Familiarity with the cost drivers of AI, from API consumption tokens to the compute-intensive requirements of model training.

Abilities Required

  • Ability to manage expectations and prioritize work across multiple "customer" teams and Engineering Managers.
  • Comfortable leading through a broad range of technologies and shifting priorities as we move from AI consumption to model building.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to provide a "safety net" during complex architectural shifts or cost anomalies.
  • Must be able to maintain high-bandwidth communication with global leadership and peers over textual mediums and video conferencing.
  • Exceptional presentation/leadership skills, concise and fluent communication.

Skills

FinopsGCPAWSKubernetesCloud Cost OptimizationVendor ManagementFinancial ForecastingAi Cost ModelingMulti-Cloud ArchitectureTeam Leadership

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