Manager FinOps Performance & Governance

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Manager FinOps Performance & Governance

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while advancing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges.

DESCRIPTION:

Join our collaborative team as a Manager FinOps Performance & Governance and play a key role in advancing Thermo Fisher Scientific’s cloud financial management capabilities. In this role, you will lead a small team of FinOps analysts while helping the organization make data-driven decisions that optimize cloud and infrastructure investments across a hybrid environment (public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem).

You will drive the evolution of our FinOps practice beyond cost optimization into cost transparency, allocation, forecasting, and business accountability. Your team will analyze and manage technology spend, delivering insights that balance cost, performance, and business value.

Partnering closely with Engineering, Finance, Operations, and business stakeholders, you will build and operationalize showback and chargeback models, improve cost attribution, and enhance visibility into unit economics and cost-to-serve.

As a leader in FinOps, you will oversee the development of scalable reporting and analytics solutions, ensure high-quality cost data, and establish governance, standards, and best practices aligned with the FinOps Framework. You will also play a key role in driving a FinOps culture of accountability and ownership across the organization.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

• Lead a team that analyzes and manages costs and consumption across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem infrastructure
• Identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities to improve cost efficiency and resource utilization
• Build and oversee dashboards and reporting that provide transparency into spend, usage, and value
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to ensure cost-efficient architecture and resource management
• Guide deep-dive analyses into cloud usage to reduce waste and optimize investments (e.g., rightsizing, commitments, scheduling)
• Drive regular governance forums to review spend, forecast variance, and optimization opportunities with stakeholders
• Translate complex cost and usage data into clear, actionable insights for leadership

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and develop a small team of FinOps analysts, fostering growth, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Develop and mature FinOps capabilities, including:
  • Cost allocation and tagging strategy
  • Showback and chargeback models
  • Budgeting and forecasting processes
  • Unit economics and cost-to-serve analysis
• Establish and maintain cloud cost management strategies across hybrid environments
• Perform and oversee deep-dive analyses on usage and cost trends to identify inefficiencies and optimization opportunities
• Lead cost visualization and reporting initiatives to ensure transparency and data-driven decision-making
• Collaborate with Finance, Engineering, and Operations to define and enforce governance, tagging, and cost accountability practices
• Provide architectural and strategic recommendations to improve cost efficiency and support business initiatives
• Communicate spend trends, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders
• Support integration and evolution of financial and cloud cost management systems, ensuring data quality and integrity
• Drive adoption of FinOps best practices and help scale a FinOps culture across the organization

REQUIREMENTS:

• Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor’s Degree plus 8 years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, data analytics, or related field
• Preferred Fields of Study: Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional certification strongly preferred
• 2–4 years of people management or team leadership experience
• Experience supporting cloud and infrastructure cost management across hybrid environments (public cloud, private cloud, on-prem)
• Strong experience with cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, OptiX, CloudZero, etc.)
• Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (Power BI preferred)
• Strong understanding of:
  • Cost allocation, tagging strategies, and governance
  • Showback/chargeback methodologies
  • Budgeting and forecasting for cloud spend
  • Cost optimization techniques (e.g., RI/SPs, autoscaling, rightsizing)
• Experience collaborating with technical teams on cost optimization and architecture decisions
• Experience integrating cost data with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle preferred)
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technology spend to business value
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
• Proven ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed, global organization
• Travel up to 25% as required

KEYS TO SUCCESS:

• Ability to balance cost, performance, and business value in decision-making
• Strong collaboration across Finance, Engineering, and Operations
• Driving transparency, accountability, and FinOps cultural adoption
• Delivering insights that influence both technical and financial decisions
• Building scalable processes that support long-term FinOps maturity