Director, FinOps (Cloud Financial Management) Location: Toronto, Ontario Work Model: Hybrid — minimum 3 days onsite per week Employment Type: Permanent, Full-TimeAbout the Role This leadership position is responsible for building and maturing an enterprise FinOps program focused on sustainable cloud cost optimization while maintaining reliability, security, and engineering productivity. The role combines strategic ownership with hands‑on execution across analysis, reporting, optimization tracking, governance, and follow‑up. The Director will lead the FinOps strategy, operating model, cost optimization pipeline, forecasting discipline, governance cadence, and savings targets.

This work will be carried out in close partnership with Engineering, Cloud Operations, Product, Finance, and senior leadership. The role requires the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders, establish cost accountability, and promote cost‑aware decision‑making across the organization. Build and manage a cloud cost optimization pipeline covering opportunity identification, impact analysis, prioritization, execution, savings validation, and regression prevention.

Lead quarterly and annual cloud savings targets using clear methods for hard savings, unit‑cost improvement, and cost avoidance. Lead cloud budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario planning. Define and track unit economics such as cost per customer, transaction, environment, or deployment.

Improve financial discipline through tagging standards, allocation accuracy, commitment planning, anomaly detection, and benefits tracking. Drive optimization across Azure compute and infrastructure, AKS/Kubernetes, rightsizing, scheduling, storage tiering, networking,



Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and observability/monitoring costs. Translate technical and infrastructure decisions into financial impact and cost‑to‑serve implications.

Establish practical cost‑efficiency policies and guardrails aligned with engineering delivery. Improve the quality and availability of cloud cost data used for decision‑making. Develop executive reporting on cost drivers, risks, savings progress, forecasts, KPIs, and recommendations.

Provide clear recommendations and trade‑offs to senior leadership. Establish team goals, operating cadence, accountability, and continuous‑improvement practices. Build training and enablement initiatives to improve FinOps awareness and cloud cost literacy across technical and product teams. 10+ years of experience in cloud/platform technology, finance/FP&A;, technology operations, FinOps, or a closely related discipline. ~Experience building, leading, or materially contributing to FinOps or Cloud Financial Management programs. ~ Proven record of delivering measurable cloud savings across multiple quarters and improving cost‑to‑serve. ~ Solid technical understanding of Azure architecture, including compute, AKS/Kubernetes, storage, networking, and observability. ~ Strong financial expertise in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, scenario planning,



business casing, ROI, and savings measurement. ~ Experience with cloud cost allocation, tagging, showback/chargeback, and/or unit‑cost models. ~ Ability to translate complex technical decisions into financial impact and actionable recommendations. ~ Demonstrated ability to influence Engineering, Finance, Product, and Cloud teams without relying solely on direct authority. ~ Strong hands‑on capability in analysis, tracking, reporting, optimization follow‑up, and governance. ~ Executive‑level written and verbal communication skills, including KPI reporting, recommendations, decision support, and senior stakeholder presentations. ~ Ability to operate effectively in an environment requiring structure, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

FinOps Foundation certification, Practitioner and/or Skilled.

Relevant Microsoft

Azure certifications.

Experience implementing showback/chargeback and unit‑cost models at scale.

Experience integrating cloud cost controls and governance into engineering and delivery pipelines.

Monitoring

Manage budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario planning for cloud spend. Define and report unit economics. Improve tagging, allocation accuracy, commitment planning, anomaly detection, and benefits tracking.

Hybrid work model with a minimum of 3 onsite days per week in Toronto. Permanent, full-time employment. It combines strategic ownership with hands‑on work across analysis, reporting, and optimization execution.

The position also provides exposure to senior leadership and close collaboration with Engineering, Cloud Operations, Product, and Finance.

📌 Director, Finops (Cloud Financial Management) (Toronto)
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