FinOps Lead

About the Role

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate. We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today!

The FinOps Lead establishes and leads the enterprise cloud financial management practice under the Technology Business Manager. This role is accountable for cloud financial governance, optimization strategy, cost accountability, cloud forecasting, savings realization, and cloud-focused executive reporting. The role manages the FinOps Analyst and works with Finance, Technology, Procurement, engineering, application, and service owners across Azure, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, and related consumption platforms.

Responsibilities

• Establish the FinOps roadmap, operating model, governance cadence, decision forums, and performance measures.
• Define cloud financial governance policies, guardrails, ownership standards, escalation paths, and decision rights.
• Lead cloud budgeting, forecasting, variance management, anomaly response, and executive review processes.
• Establish tagging, cost allocation, account hierarchy, and ownership standards that connect consumption to applications, services, environments, cost centers, and business units.
• Lead optimization efforts involving rightsizing, waste elimination, scheduling, commitments, architecture decisions, and resource retirement.
• Ensure savings opportunities are validated, assigned, executed, verified, incorporated into forecasts, and reported as realized value.
• Produce executive reporting covering cloud spend, forecasts, budget performance, allocation, optimization pipeline, realized savings, and governance compliance.
• Align IBM Cloudability information and controls with the Apptio and TBM model.
• Establish performance measures for tagging, allocation quality, forecast accuracy, budget variance, commitment utilization, optimization, and savings realization.
• Integrate financial impact and cost accountability into architecture, service catalog, change, asset, and portfolio governance.
• Lead FinOps stakeholder education, communications, champion networks, and behavioral adoption.
• Set priorities and provide day-to-day leadership for the FinOps Analyst.
• Performs analysis of assigned applications and business processes/functions.
• Modifies and supports assigned applications/systems as appropriate.
• Partners and communicates with assigned customers/end users.
• Maintains and enhances professional competencies and industry knowledge.
• Performs lead duties.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Required - High school diploma or equivalent.
• Required - 9 years of related experience, OR 6 years of experience with a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Proficiency working with databases, online solutions and the programming languages commonly used at the organization's information services division.
• Analytical skills and ability to use logical thought processes.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under stressful situations with frequent interruptions and frequent changes in priorities.
• Ability to work flexible schedules such as nights, weekends, extended shifts, etc., travel throughout and between facilities, and travel out of town occasionally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 6 years of programming experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Progressive experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, IT financial management, cloud governance, technology operations, or a related discipline, including program leadership.
• Advanced understanding of cloud budgeting, forecasting, allocation, unit economics, commitments, savings measurement, showback, and chargeback concepts.
• Experience leading cross-functional cloud cost governance and optimization activities.
• Ability to translate technical consumption and financial data into actions, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• Leadership experience establishing enterprise governance, executive reporting, and cloud cost optimization practices.
• FinOps Certified Professional or FinOps Certified Practitioner.
• Certified Technology Business Management Executive or equivalent TBM credential.
• Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or cloud financial management certification.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library Foundation certification.
• Working knowledge of IBM Cloudability, Apptio, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, tagging standards, and commitment-management practices.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Very Heavy Work - Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Heavy Work.

Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid. The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases. Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.