Position Overview
We are looking for a highly strategic, data-driven, and collaborative Associate Director of IT FinOps to lead our IT financial operations. This leader will play a critical role in managing cloud cost efficiency, financial accountability, and IT budget alignment for cloud operationsespecially crucial in a SaaS company with Regulatory and pharmaceutical clients where compliance and predictability are paramount.
You will work cross-functionally with Engineering, DevOps and other functions to create a culture of financial accountability in the IT operations, while supporting agility and innovation across RxLogixs technology landscape.
Key Responsibilities
- FinOps Strategy & Leadership :
- Define and lead RxLogix's enterprise-wide IT FinOps strategy, aligning cloud spend with business priorities.
- Previous experience building a FinOps function from the ground up in a scaling organization.
- Establish and grow a FinOps function, developing a team to drive continuous improvement.
- Define standard pricing for standard and custom solution architectures.
- Promote a culture of financial accountability in the IT across all the functions.
- Cloud Cost Optimization & Governance :
- Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps to implement cost optimization best practices across services and architectures.
- Establish and enforce cost governance frameworks, including tagging policies, cost controls, and automation to ensure accuracy and accountability.
- Define standard pricing for both standard and custom solution architectures based on usage patterns and business requirements.
- AWS Spend Management :
- Own IT billing operations including planning, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Monitor planned vs. actual costs to ensure alignment with budgets and business projections.
- Develop and drive accountability and transparency across departments.
- Forecasting, Reporting & Insights :
- Analyze cost and usage data to produce real-time dashboards and executive reports.
- Analyze actual costs against forecasted models and leverage industry innovations to refine standard architectures and pricing models in collaboration with Engineering.
- Drive continuous improvement by evaluating new AWS and others service providers offerings and tools.
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication :
- Proactively communicate cost increases to engineering Sales, and Client Partner (CP) teams, enabling timely internal and external communication.
- Proactively communicate cost increases to Finance and Sales/CP teams for timely heads up to clients.
- Serve as a key liaison between Engineering, DevOps, other functions and Executive Leadership on the cost management and ensure cloud spending aligns with delivered client value.
- Lead regular cost reviews, planning sessions, and optimization workshops with key stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications And Skills
- Overall 14+ Years of experience with 10+ years of experience in cloud financial operations, enterprise IT finance, or cloud cost optimization, with at least 3+ years in a senior or director-level leadership role.
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Finance, Computer Science, or Engineering.
- Preferred : MBA, CPA, or Masters in IT/Finance-related discipline.
- Experience in regulated industries (e.g., pharmaceuticals, healthcare, life sciences) is highly preferred.
- Demonstrated success managing multi-million-dollar AWS environments across complex, regulated infrastructures.
- Deep expertise in AWS billing, pricing models usage reports, and optimization strategies.
- Proven experience with cloud FinOps tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer).
- Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and analytics.
- Experience implementing tagging policies, and cost governance frameworks.
- Exceptional communication and executive reporting skillsable to influence at all levels.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
Certifications (Preferred)
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional.
- AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Certifications.
- ITIL Foundation (for understanding service management & chargeback models).
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