Director, Cloud Engineering & Operations, FinOps

Description

Director, Cloud FinOps

Location: Remote, USA

Employment Type: Full-Time

Benefits offered: Vision, medical, Life, Dental, 401K

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

Additional variable compensation and benefits may apply. Total compensation is based on experience, skills, and location using objective, job-related criteria.

Summary

As Director, Cloud FinOps, you'll own the strategy and execution of all financial aspects of our public-cloud operations. You'll partner across Engineering, Finance, Product, and Operations, working with an experienced leadership team committed to technical excellence and fiscal discipline to ensure that every dollar of cloud spend drives measurable value, scale, and performance. You'll drive tangible business impact through smarter cloud economics by leading a team that turns cloud usage data into business insight, drives accountability for cost decisions, and builds the automation and governance that keeps OneStream's SaaS platform efficient and profitable. Expect ambiguity, shifting priorities, and high expectations for delivery and clarity. You'll need to be comfortable with both strategic thinking and hands-on execution (dashboards, cost reviews, and chargeback models). Great for someone who thrives balancing business impact with technical cost levers.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive cloud financial management framework across our SaaS offering: forecasting, budgeting, actuals vs. plan, cost allocation, unit economics (e.g., cost per customer, cost per node/tenant/instance).
• Lead cloud cost optimization programs: e.g., reserved commitments/savings plans, right-sizing, idle resource elimination, tagging and chargeback/cleanup initiatives.
• Partner with Engineering/CloudOps/Product teams to integrate cloud cost visibility into operations (dashboards, KPIs, alerts) and instill.
• FinOps culture (cost awareness, cost accountability).
• Drive reporting for executive leadership and the board: highlight 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: tagging standards, cost-allocation models, approval workflows for new services, cloud contract negotiation/commitment reviews.
• Lead a team of FinOps analysts/engineers: hire, coach, set strategy, measure effectiveness and build influence across the organization.
• Collaborate with Finance/FP&A to ensure that cloud costs are correctly reflected in financial planning, customer-unit economics, pricing discussions, and business case modelling for new products or global expansion.
• Stay abreast of public-cloud provider pricing models (AWS, Azure, GCP), emerging cloud-cost tools, and FinOps best practices, bring 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: translate technical cloud-usage metrics into business implications for growth, margin and scalability.
  
  
  

Required Education and Experience

• 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.
• Demonstrated 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.

Preferred Education and Experience

• 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, 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.
• Committed to mentoring and developing a high-performing FinOps team that blends financial acumen with technical expertise.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position is responsible for the direct supervision of Financial analysts and establishing a FinOps organization.

Travel

• Travel Requirement: Regular Travel is not required for this position.

Who We Are

OneStream is how today's Finance teams can go beyond just reporting on the past and Take Finance Further by steering the business to the future. It's the only enterprise finance platform that unifies financial and operational data, embeds AI for better decisions and productivity, and empowers the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy and execution. Our vision is to be the operating system for modern finance, digitizing core financial functions and empowering the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy. To learn more visit

Why Join The OneStream Team

• Transparency around corporate structure, salary, and benefits
• Core value of customer success
• Variety of project work (not industry-specific)
• Strong culture andcamaraderie
• Multiple training opportunities

Benefits at OneStream
OneStream employees are passionate, hardworking individuals who go above and beyond to keep our customers happy and follow through on our mission statement. They consistently deliver the best and in turn, we make every effort to keep them cared for and happy. A sample of the benefits we provide are:

• Excellent Medical Plan
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Vacation Time
• Paid Holidays
• Professional Development
• Retirement Plan
  
  
  

All candidates must be legally authorized to work for any company in the country where this position is located without sponsorship.

OneStream is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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