Cloud finops consultant

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Fin Ops & Financial Governance

Manage infrastructure budget planning, forecasting, and tracking. Drive infrastructure cost optimization initiatives across cloud and on-prem environments. Develop and operationalize showback, chargeback, and debit frameworks. Establish infrastructure financial governance processes and controls. Create executive dashboards for spend visibility, consumption trends, and optimization opportunities. Partner with Finance, Procurement, and Technology teams to drive financial accountability.

Procurement & Commercial Management

Manage PR/PO lifecycle for infrastructure services. Track contracts, renewals, and vendor commercial commitments. Support infrastructure financial planning and procurement governance. Ensure timely processing of technology procurements and budget utilization.

Infrastructure Governance & Transformation

Own and maintain the Infrastructure roadmap. Coordinate with Cloud, Network, Security, Platform, Workplace, and Data Center teams. Track project milestones, risks, dependencies, and escalations. Facilitate governance reviews and leadership reporting. Drive execution discipline across infrastructure initiatives.

Agentic AI Development & Automation

Design, build, and deploy AI agents to automate Fin Ops, governance, and operational workflows. Create AI agents for:

o Budget monitoring

o Cost anomaly detection

o Cost optimization recommendations

o PR/PO tracking

o Executive reporting

o Risk identification

o Compliance monitoring

o Infrastructure health insights

Build copilots and workflow agents leveraging enterprise AI platforms. Integrate AI solutions with ITSM, monitoring, cloud, and financial systems. Continuously improve operational efficiency through AI-driven automation.

Enterprise AI & Infrastructure Innovation

Support larger AI transformation initiatives within the Infrastructure organization. Identify use cases where AI can improve productivity, governance, decision-making, and service delivery. Collaborate with Cloud, Data, Security, and AI teams to develop scalable enterprise AI solutions. Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption opportunities. Act as the Infrastructure function's AI champion.

Preferred Technical Skills

Cloud & Fin Ops

Azure / AWS fundamentals Cloud Cost Management Fin Ops Frameworks Budgeting & Forecasting Chargeback / Showback Models

AI & Automation

Microsoft Copilot Studio Azure AI Foundry Azure Open AI Lang Chain / Lang Graph Auto Gen Crew AI Power Platform Power Automate API Integrations Prompt Engineering RAG Architectures Workflow Automation

Governance & Strategy

PMO Management Business Case Development Executive Reporting Stakeholder Management Risk & Dependency Management

Must have

6+ years of experience Understands Cloud services & costing in depth Experienced in Cloud Fin Ops – Chargeback, Budget, Cost Optimization, Governance, Tagging Experienced in building AI agents independently using low-code and code-based platforms

Good to have

Certifications – AWS Cloud, Fin Ops, AI Experience in Cloud business cases PMO experience