FinOps Engineer

Pretium Enterprise Services is a company focused on business service capabilities that drive growth and transformation for its global operating companies. The FinOps Engineer will manage financial operations, ensuring cost transparency and optimization while collaborating with various teams to support executive decision-making and sustainable cloud growth.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and execute the organization’s FinOps strategy across multiple cloud, PaaS, and SaaS platforms, ensuring spend is optimized and aligned with business priorities
• Analyze cloud usage and billing data across environments to identify inefficiencies, cost anomalies, and savings opportunities
• Implement rightsizing strategies, eliminate idle or underutilized resources, and recommend architectural cost improvements
• Manage billing and cost reporting processes, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and consistency across operating companies and business units
• Develop and maintain forecasting and budgeting models to predict costs based on historical usage trends, growth plans, and architectural changes
• Design, implement, and enforce cost allocation and chargeback models using standardized tagging, cost centers, and business unit mappings
• Build and maintain financial dashboards and reports using cost management platforms and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI or equivalent)
• Define, track, and report on FinOps KPIs, including cost trends, budget variance, savings realized, and optimization impact
• Implement automation for cost monitoring, reporting, and alerting, including proactive alerts for unexpected spikes
• Partner closely with Finance to support budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and month-end reporting
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers and Architects to embed cost governance into infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, and operational standards
• Document FinOps standards, workflows, and best practices to support scalability and consistency across the organization

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of professional experience, including at least 4 years supporting cloud-based platforms or services
• Strong understanding of cloud consumption models, billing structures, and cost drivers across cloud environments
• Understanding of licensing models
• Experience working with cloud cost management tools and billing data
• Hands-on experience designing tagging strategies and cost allocation models
• Proficiency with reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI or equivalent
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform or similar)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, finance, and operations teams
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar certification
• Cloud provider certifications
• Proficiency with scripting or automation languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python)
• Experience with IT financial management, budgeting, forecasting, or chargeback models
• Experience with FinOps platforms or cost optimization tooling