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Sr. FinOps Manager (Cloud & AWS)
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Vertafore . Salary: $120k - $160k / year.
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions advance the insurance industry. Our suite of products enables customers to better manage their business, boost productivity, and lower costs.
Job Summary We are looking for a Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Manager who thrives at the intersection of cloud technology, finance, and business strategy. This hands‑on role is not a people‑management position; your impact will come through analysis, influence, and execution.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Analyze and Optimize AWS Spend
– Own detailed cost and usage analysis, including Reserved Instance and Savings Plan utilization, anomaly detection, and spend forecasting.
Identify trends and opportunities for cost reduction without compromising performance or business outcomes.
Drive Savings Execution
– Build action plans, secure alignment, and follow through on execution of savings initiatives.
Partner with engineering to right‑size workloads, modernize architectures, and shift spend patterns.
Build Organizational Awareness
– Create reporting, dashboards, and narratives that explain cloud economics, risks, opportunities, and decision points to stakeholders from engineers to executives.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, ensuring decisions around cloud growth are data‑driven.
Deliver monthly FinOps reports highlighting variances, trends, and savings opportunities.
Enable a FinOps Culture
– Champion cost accountability across teams by embedding FinOps practices into engineering roadmaps and financial planning cycles.
Educate teams on AWS billing constructs, optimization levers, and trade‑offs.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Analytical rigor – Advanced ability to mine large datasets (Athena, Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, or similar tools) and surface actionable insights.
Execution mindset – Successfully execute opportunities in collaboration with engineering, operations, and finance.
Stakeholder savvy – Comfortable working with developers, finance analysts, and C‑level leaders.
Business acumen – Understand how cloud economics tie to margins, product pricing, and long‑term strategy.
Visualization – Create effective visualizations to communicate with partners and stakeholders.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, mathematics, economics, computer science, or a related field and five years of relevant professional experience.
5+ years in cloud financial operations, cloud cost optimization, or related disciplines, with deep AWS knowledge.
Proven track record of cloud financial excellence.
Project management certification or relevant experience.
Additional Requirements
Travel up to 10% of the time.
Occasional lifting or moving up to 10 pounds.
Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
Specific vision abilities required (close vision for computer work).
Frequent sitting and/or standing.
Vertafore is a drug‑free workplace and conducts pre‑employment drug and background screenings. The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
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Sr. FinOps Manager (Cloud & AWS)
role at
Vertafore . Salary: $120k - $160k / year.
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions advance the insurance industry. Our suite of products enables customers to better manage their business, boost productivity, and lower costs.
Job Summary We are looking for a Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Manager who thrives at the intersection of cloud technology, finance, and business strategy. This hands‑on role is not a people‑management position; your impact will come through analysis, influence, and execution.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Analyze and Optimize AWS Spend
– Own detailed cost and usage analysis, including Reserved Instance and Savings Plan utilization, anomaly detection, and spend forecasting.
Identify trends and opportunities for cost reduction without compromising performance or business outcomes.
Drive Savings Execution
– Build action plans, secure alignment, and follow through on execution of savings initiatives.
Partner with engineering to right‑size workloads, modernize architectures, and shift spend patterns.
Build Organizational Awareness
– Create reporting, dashboards, and narratives that explain cloud economics, risks, opportunities, and decision points to stakeholders from engineers to executives.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, ensuring decisions around cloud growth are data‑driven.
Deliver monthly FinOps reports highlighting variances, trends, and savings opportunities.
Enable a FinOps Culture
– Champion cost accountability across teams by embedding FinOps practices into engineering roadmaps and financial planning cycles.
Educate teams on AWS billing constructs, optimization levers, and trade‑offs.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Analytical rigor – Advanced ability to mine large datasets (Athena, Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, or similar tools) and surface actionable insights.
Execution mindset – Successfully execute opportunities in collaboration with engineering, operations, and finance.
Stakeholder savvy – Comfortable working with developers, finance analysts, and C‑level leaders.
Business acumen – Understand how cloud economics tie to margins, product pricing, and long‑term strategy.
Visualization – Create effective visualizations to communicate with partners and stakeholders.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, mathematics, economics, computer science, or a related field and five years of relevant professional experience.
5+ years in cloud financial operations, cloud cost optimization, or related disciplines, with deep AWS knowledge.
Proven track record of cloud financial excellence.
Project management certification or relevant experience.
Additional Requirements
Travel up to 10% of the time.
Occasional lifting or moving up to 10 pounds.
Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
Specific vision abilities required (close vision for computer work).
Frequent sitting and/or standing.
Vertafore is a drug‑free workplace and conducts pre‑employment drug and background screenings. The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
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