FinOps Consultant

We are seeking an experienced FinOps Delivery Lead to lead the day-to-day execution of a strategic AI FinOps engagement. This person will translate business, finance, engineering, and platform requirements into a disciplined delivery plan and drive that plan across the project team.

The role requires someone who can operate independently with senior client stakeholders, bring structure to ambiguous FinOps problems, and ensure meetings and analysis lead to clear decisions, owners, actions, and dates.

The replacement needs to take over the operational responsibilities currently carried by another resource, who is identified as leading daily delivery activities, planning coordination, and the FinOps execution rhythm.

Key Responsibilities

· Own day-to-day engagement delivery, including priorities, work planning, team coordination, dependencies, risks, actions, and follow-through.

· Establish and run the project's daily/weekly FinOps operating rhythm, ensuring that open items have accountable owners and target dates.

· Coordinate execution across the BNY AI FinOps workstreams, including AI cost visibility/dashboarding, FinOps data, forecasting, governance, and optimization. The existing engagement plan aligns BNY's client-facing work around WS1 AI Cost Dashboard, WS2 FinOps Data Mesh, and WS3 AI Forecasting.

• Lead development and refinement of FinOps governance, including RACI/accountability, escalation thresholds, decision rights, governance forums, and budget guardrails.
• Work with Finance, engineering, application/product owners, and technology management to establish practical ownership for FinOps activities.
• Facilitate client workshops and translate discussions into decisions, deliverables, action items, and executable next steps.
• Develop executive-ready materials that clearly articulate findings, options, recommendations, financial impacts, risks, and required decisions.
• Drive closure of project milestones and ensure deliverables satisfy both the SOW and agreed client expectations.
• Identify delivery risks early and escalate issues requiring senior client or engagement leadership.
• Partner closely with the Project Advisor / architecture leadership on AI Tokenomics, architecture direction, client messaging, and senior escalations.

The governance work is substantive. Current project artifacts cover forecast variance, cost anomalies, budget/commitment exposure, recurring exceptions, unclear ownership, and escalation from operational owners through Finance/technology management to executive decision makers.

Required Experience

· 8+ years of consulting, technology financial management, cloud economics, cloud/platform delivery, or related experience.

• Strong hands-on understanding of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimize, Operate.
• Experience establishing or operating FinOps capabilities in a large enterprise or regulated financial-services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams spanning Finance, engineering, cloud/platform, product, architecture, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience with:

o Cloud cost allocation and transparency

• Forecasting and budgeting
• Cost anomaly management
• Unit economics / cost drivers
• FinOps controls and governance
• RACI and decision-right design
• Optimization opportunity management
• Executive reporting and KPIs
• Strong facilitation skills and the ability to challenge constructively while maintaining client relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal executive communication.
• Comfortable taking ownership in situations where requirements and operating processes are still being defined.

Strongly Preferred

· FinOps Foundation certification such as FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional.

• Experience with AI/GenAI economics or AI FinOps, including model/token consumption, shared AI platforms, chargeback/showback, and AI unit economics.

· Experience with Snowflake/data cost management and cloud cost/usage datasets. The engagement plan specifically calls out Snowflake/vendor data mapping as part of preparation.

• Recent consulting experience with tier-one banking or financial-services organizations.
• Experience taking a FinOps capability from analysis/design into an operational governance model.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first several weeks, this person should be able to:

1. Take ownership of the daily delivery engine without requiring you to manage project mechanics.

1. Establish credibility with BNY stakeholders and the existing delivery team.
2. Turn ambiguous FinOps questions into structured work products and decisions.
3. Keep governance, forecasting, cost transparency, optimization, and data work moving concurrently.

5. Ensure that issues reach you primarily when they require senior client intervention, architecture/tokenomics input, or escalation, rather than routine delivery management.