Cloud FinOps Lead

EISAI GCC - FinOps Lead

Location: Vizag

Experience: 8-10 Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Join our GDBT Team in Vizag

EISAI Global Digital Business Transformation (GDBT) centre in Vizag is our first truly global

capability hub providing high quality IT capability services across the globe for various EISAI

regions. The centre leverages internal critical technical competencies to engineer, build, secure,

and operate consolidated cost optimized global infrastructure platforms supporting our human

health care (hhc) mission.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and strategic FinOps Lead to establish, mature, and lead the

FinOps practice within EISAI's GDBT centre. Reporting into the Cloud Centre of Excellence, you will

own the end-to-end cloud financial management capability across our $12.5M multi-cloud estate

spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP across regions including the US, EMEA, Japan, India, and Manila.

You will lead a team of Forecasting and Optimisation Analysts, drive alignment between

engineering, finance, and business stakeholders, and be accountable for delivering measurable

cloud cost efficiency and financial governance at scale.

This is a senior individual contributor and team lead role requiring both strong technical depth in

cloud cost management and the leadership capability to influence across a global, matrixed

organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the FinOps function, managing forecasting and optimisation analysts,

setting priorities, and building sustainable capability.

• Own the FinOps operating model including tagging standards, cost allocation,

showback/chargeback, and governance across EISAI GDBT.

• Embed financial accountability into engineering, partnering with the Cloud Centre of

Excellence and delivery teams to operationalise FinOps best practices.

• Lead cloud budgeting and forecasting cycles, delivering consolidated forecasts, variance

analysis, and insights across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Define and execute the cloud savings roadmap, overseeing the optimisation backlog and

reporting realised savings to technology and finance leadership.

• Own commitment and commercial strategy, including RIs, Savings Plans, CUDs, and cloud

provider negotiations and renewals.

• Establish executive-level reporting on cloud spend, efficiency KPIs, and savings, translating

data into clear business narratives.

• Champion a cost-conscious engineering culture, embedding FinOps principles into SDLC,

architecture reviews, and enablement programs

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in cloud financial management, FinOps, or cloud architecture with a

strong cost governance focus, including at least 2 years in a lead or senior role.

• Demonstrated experience managing and maturing a FinOps practice within a large,

complex, multi-cloud enterprise environment.

• Deep expertise across cloud billing, pricing models, and cost optimisation instruments

across at least two major providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Proven ability to build and influence relationships with engineering, finance, and senior

business stakeholders, driving accountability without direct authority.

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• Experience leading or mentoring small technical or analytical teams, with the ability to set

direction, develop talent, and drive delivery.

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification required; FinOps Certified Professional or

cloud provider cost management certifications (AWS, Azure) are highly desirable.

• Experience working in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated industries with

compliance-driven infrastructure requirements is highly advantageous.

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification required; FinOps Certified Professional or

cloud provider cost management certifications (AWS, Azure) are highly desirable.

• Experience working in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated industries with

compliance-driven infrastructure requirements is highly advantageous.

About Eisai

At Eisai, satisfying unmet medical needs and increasing the benefits healthcare provides to

patients, their families, and caregivers is Eisai's human health care (hhc) mission. We're a growing

pharmaceutical company that is breaking through in neurology and oncology, with a strong

emphasis on research and development. Our history includes the development of many innovative

medicines, notably the discovery of the world's most widely used treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

As we continue to expand, we are seeking highly motivated individuals who want to work in a fast

paced environment and make a difference. If this is your profile, we want to hear from you.