Director, Cloud Engineering & Operations, FinOps

About the role

The Director, Cloud FinOps will oversee the financial management of OneStream's SaaS offerings, focusing on cost optimization, governance, and alignment with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive cloud financial management framework, including forecasting, budgeting, actuals vs. plan, cost allocation, and unit economics.
• Lead cloud cost optimization programs, such as reserved commitments, right-sizing, and idle resource elimination.
• Partner with Engineering, CloudOps, Product teams to integrate cloud cost visibility into operations, including dashboards, KPIs, and alerts.
• Drive reporting for executive leadership and the board, highlighting cost trends, anomalies, savings progress, risk of overruns, and tradeoffs between cost, performance, and growth.
• Define and enforce governance and controls around cloud cost and usage, including tagging standards, cost-allocation models, approval workflows for new services, and cloud contract negotiation/commitment reviews.
• Lead a team of FinOps analysts/engineers, hiring, coaching, setting strategy, measuring effectiveness, and building influence across the organization.
• Collaborate with Finance/FP&A to ensure cloud costs are correctly reflected in financial planning, customer-unit economics, pricing discussions, and business case modelling for new products or global expansion.
• Stay updated on public-cloud pricing models, emerging cloud-cost tools, and FinOps best practices, bringing innovation in cost management automation, tagging enforcement, anomaly detection, and internal chargeback.
• Support M&A, product launches, or major cloud migrations by providing financial modelling of cloud cost impact, run-rate changes, and forecasting scenarios.
• Own the narrative around cloud cost in the SaaS business, translating technical cloud-usage metrics into business implications for growth, margin, and scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering required.
• Professional certifications strongly desired: FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional (FinOps Foundation) or Cloud certifications such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, or GCP Cloud Digital Leader.
• 10–15 years of progressive experience in cloud financial management, cost optimization, or technology finance, ideally within a SaaS or large-scale enterprise cloud environment.
• 5+ years in a leadership role, managing teams and driving cross-functional initiatives that span Finance, Engineering, and Operations.
• Proven track record in establishing and maturing a FinOps practice, implementing governance, cost-allocation models, show back/chargeback, and optimization programs.
• Deep knowledge of public-cloud pricing and billing models (AWS, Azure, GCP) and demonstrate success in optimizing committed spend, reserved instances, and savings plans.
• Proficiency with FinOps and cloud-cost management tools.
• Strong financial modeling and forecasting capability, connecting cloud spend to unit economics (cost per customer, feature, or workload) and business metrics (ARR, COGS, gross margin).
• Experience developing and presenting executive-level reporting and insights to senior leadership and boards, including trend analysis, variance, and risk projections.
• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Product Management to align financial outcomes with technical priorities.
• Proven ability to lead automation and tooling initiatives that increase cost visibility, tagging accuracy, and real-time spend governance.
• Experience in high-growth SaaS or multi-tenant environments with measurable improvements in cost efficiency and financial predictability.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MBA or Master’s in Finance, Technology Management, or related field) preferred.
• CPA, CMA, or CFA for candidates with a strong financial or FP&A orientation.
• Experience integrating FinOps practices post-merger or acquisition.
• Familiarity with scripting or analytics (SQL, Python, Power BI, Looker) to automate cost insights.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code, cloud architecture, and performance-to-cost tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of emerging cloud financial technologies, such as AI-driven anomaly detection, predictive spend models, and sustainability metrics.
• Strategic thinker with a collaborative approach and strong influence across teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Committed to mentoring and developing a high-performing FinOps team that blends financial acumen with technical expertise.

Skills and Abilities

• Proven ability to solve complex problems and manage ambiguity in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Advanced data analysis and visualization skills using Excel, Power BI, and Tableau.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud economics, pricing models, and billing structures.
• Strong command of FinOps principles, including cost allocation, show back/chargeback, optimization, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Solid understanding of financial planning and analysis (FP&A), forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, automation, and cloud architecture as they relate to performance and cost.
• Demonstrated operational discipline in building scalable processes.
• Expertise in cloud contract evaluation and cost forecasting for enterprise agreements and savings plans.
• Awareness of emerging cloud financial technologies, such as AI-driven anomaly detection, predictive spend models, and sustainability metrics.
• Strategic thinker with a collaborative approach and strong influence across teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Vision, medical, Life, Dental insurance.
• 401K.
• Additional variable compensation and benefits may apply.
• Total compensation is based on experience, skills, and location using objective, job-related criteria.

Pay

Gross Annual Base Salary: USD 158,500-198,250.

Schedule

Full-Time.