SaaS Finance & Operations Manager, VP

Charles River Development is rapidly growing its Software-as-a-Service platform. We are looking for a hands-on, well-rounded FinOps Leadership role for our growing Identity Management team. We offer an opportunity for talented and driven individuals to get on board with an organization that values personal initiative and growth.

About the role

The team you will be joining is part of Charles River Development (or CRD), which became a part of State Street in 2018. CRD helps create enterprise investment management software solutions for large institutions in the areas of institutional investment, wealth management, and hedge funds. Together we have created the first open front-to-back platform - State Street Alpha, launched in 2019. Join us if delivering next-generation infrastructure using emerging technologies like AI and Blockchain sounds like a challenge you are up for.

Responsibilities

• Drive FinOps program adoption, governance maturity, and measurable cost outcomes across business units
• Serve as the senior FinOps subject matter expert, shaping how cloud cost is managed, governed, and communicated
• Oversee cloud cost allocation frameworks and showback/chargeback models that drive financial accountability at the team, product, and business unit level
• Lead FinOps analysis functions including variance analysis, trend reporting, anomaly detection, and savings opportunity identification
• Partner with Finance to align cloud cost reporting with budget planning, forecasting, and P&L accountability
• Own the FinOps tooling stack — including configuration, optimization, and vendor management for cost visibility and governance platforms
• Ensure accurate, timely, and actionable cloud cost reporting across engineering, architecture, product, and executive audiences
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality, reporting automation, and self-service FinOps capabilities
• Embed FinOps principles into architecture review, cloud design standards, and product investment decisions
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and engineering teams to evaluate cost implications of technology choices at the design stage
• Champion unit economics thinking across cloud workloads and engineering teams
• Act as the primary FinOps liaison to engineering, product, architecture, procurement, and finance leadership
• Deliver regular executive reporting on cloud spend performance, savings outcomes, budget adherence, and FinOps program health
• Lead FinOps working groups, steering forums, and cross-functional governance bodies
• Lead, develop, and grow the FinOps team, setting clear direction and fostering a high-performance culture
• Manage team capacity across analysis, tooling, allocation, and program management functions
• Identify and develop emerging FinOps talent within the team and across the broader technology organization

Requirements

• A high degree of technical aptitude and troubleshooting skills
• A strong sense of customer service, attention to detail, and issue ownership
• Large-scale FinOps experience in a highly regulated environment
• Ability to lead and work well with multiple priorities, and effectively handle concurrent demands to prioritize responsibilities
• Ability to formulate clear strategy, present, and gain support
• Ability to effectively integrate, contribute, and overlap with other functions including cloud/enterprise architecture, compliance, risk, engineering, developers
• Ability to formulate objectives with clear business value and demonstrate progress along the way
• Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts with proven experience driving decision making across different stakeholder groups
• Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities
• A champion for continuous improvement
• Experience with infrastructure systems, security assessments, and security processes is a bonus

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud financial management, technology finance, or related fields, with at least 5 years in a FinOps role
• Demonstrated experience in FinOps programs at enterprise scale across major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong command of FinOps disciplines: cost allocation, chargeback/showback, reserved instance/savings plan optimization, anomaly detection, and unit economics
• Proven ability to influence engineering and architecture decisions through a financial governance lens
• Experience managing cloud Apptio Cloudability

Pay

Salary Range: $120,000 - $202,500 Annual. The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

• Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
• Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans
• Paid volunteer days