You will manage cloud cost reporting, unit economics analytics, automated financial feeds, showback/chargeback workflows, and monthly/quarterly performance packages for leadership. You will monitor cost anomalies, refine allocation models, enhance optimization pipelines, and streamline financial operations across hosting and multi-cloud environments.
You will also lead customer engagement with VA leadership and service line managers—delivering cost reviews, briefings, forecasting insights, modernization roadmaps, and optimization recommendations that strengthen FinOps maturity and mission-aligned financial outcomes.
Finally, you will drive continuous improvement by refining tagging standards, enhancing dashboards, modernizing reporting structures, embedding automation, addressing inefficiencies, and maturing VA’s enterprise cloud financial governance.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 years of experience
Experience leading cloud financial operations (FinOps), cloud cost management, or enterprise financial governance
Demonstrated expertise with multi‑cloud environments (Azure, AWS, VAEC) and cloud financial management tools
Strong understanding of ITSM, cloud service delivery, financial analytics, forecasting, and governance frameworks
Ability to evaluate cloud cost reports, usage models, allocation data, tagging strategies, and forecasting outputs for accuracy and completeness
Experience developing financial performance plans, optimization dashboards, reporting packages, unit economics models, and corrective‑action processes
Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills
Ability to collaborate across cloud engineering, finance, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations
Desired Qualifications
Experience supporting VA, federal agencies, or large regulated cloud environments
FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional certification, cloud cost‑management certifications, ITILv4, Six Sigma, or similar credentials
Familiarity with cloud optimization principles, cost governance frameworks, budgeting processes, tagging standards, and VA Handbook 6500 financial alignment requirements
Experience with cost dashboards, automation frameworks, metadata/ingestion pipelines, and cloud financial reporting tools
