Director, Cloud Engineering & Operations, FinOps

OneStream Software is an enterprise finance platform that unifies financial and operational data while empowering CFOs to drive business strategy. As the Director of Cloud FinOps, you will oversee the financial management of public-cloud operations, ensuring cost accountability and driving optimization strategies. You will collaborate with multiple teams to enhance cloud cost visibility and governance.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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