• Intake Governance: All public cloud spend requires FinOps approval, starting with established/approved budgets and requiring in-band spend provenance and out-of-band spend approvals. • Ensure meticulous documentation of every budget change transaction. • Ensure 100% compliance for every public cloud spend line item. • Collaborate with budget owners in Engineering, R&D, PS, IT and Finance to allocate special funding requests. • Bottom-up Fiscal Year Budget: Maintain and update reference data for fiscal year budget planning. • Summarize and communicate budget plans to business stakeholders. • Facilitate quarterly budget cycles and incremental spend approval with owners. • Spend Performance: Lead review meetings to monitor cloud spend and add anomaly detection to the mix. • Manage purchase orders (POs) for cloud resources. • Oversee spend reporting and provide feedback to budget owners. • Track changes to spend and ensure alignment with financial targets. • Democratize spend performance in a way that aligns with stakeholders from C-suite to engineers that implement changes that impact public cloud spend. • Cost Avoidance: Approve and manage reserved instance purchases to optimize cloud costs. • Communicate planned changes that may impact cash flow or spend performance. • Monitor reserved instance utilization and drive realization of savings goals (ESR). • Visualize coverage by SKU and support automation of cost calculations. • Report on cost avoidance achievements and how those relate back to spend performance. • Executive Presence: Demonstrate strong executive presence. • Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership, influence decision-making, and represent the FinOps function confidently across various business units. • Showcase poise, credibility, and the capacity to inspire trust while driving strategic initiatives in a fast-evolving technology landscape. • Business Unit Cost: Democratize business unit cost at multiple layers of granularity and negotiate allocation strategies for common/shared costs so the business feels they are fair strategies. • Facilitate pricing and modeling for new and existing products/features. • Provide insights on true resource impact and technical changes affecting costs. • Estimation & Investigations: Support product, sales, and engineering teams with estimation tasks for new services or features. • Assist with investigations into cost anomalies and resource usage.