Cloud FinOps SME

Title: Cloud FinOps SME
Location: Remote ( Dallas, TX )
Role Summary
Senior Cloud FinOps SME responsible for driving cloud financial management, cost optimization, governance, forecasting, allocation, and executive reporting across Azure-led multi-cloud environments. The role requires deep Microsoft Azure expertise, working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, and hands-on experience with Apptio Cloudability.

Key Responsibilities
•       Lead Azure and Google Cloud Platform cloud cost analysis, optimization, budgeting, forecasting, variance management, and financial governance.
•       Manage Azure Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, budgets, cost analysis, exports, and Azure Advisor recommendations.
•       Support Google Cloud Platform billing analysis, budgets, committed use discounts, labels, resource utilization, and optimization.
•       Develop showback/chargeback models, tagging standards, allocation rules, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, and executive reports.
•       Identify idle, orphaned, oversized, and underutilized resources; quantify savings and track remediation through realization.
•       Partner with engineering, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, and business teams to drive cost accountability.
•       Provide cost models, TCO, ROI, and scenario analysis for cloud migration, modernization, and architecture decisions.

Required Skills
•       10+ years of IT experience, including 7+ years in Cloud FinOps, cloud economics, or cloud financial management.
•       Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure Cost Management and Billing, Cost Analysis, budgets, exports, Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and Azure Advisor.
•       Hands-on expertise with Apptio Cloudability, including cost allocation, reporting, optimization insights, budgeting/forecasting, dashboards, and business-unit views.
•       Good working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform Cloud Billing, budgets, committed use discounts, labels, reporting, and resource optimization.
•       Strong knowledge of the FinOps Framework, cloud cost allocation, showback/chargeback, unit economics, rate optimization, governance, and anomaly management.
•       Advanced analytical and reporting skills using Power BI, Excel, SQL, APIs, or equivalent tools.
•       Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to convert technical and financial data into actionable recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications
•       FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional or equivalent certification.
•       Microsoft Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect certification; Google Cloud Platform certification is an advantage.
•       Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud migration, modernization, or multi-cloud governance programs.