Director, FinOps (Cloud Financial Management)
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Work Model: Hybrid — minimum three days onsite per week
Employment Type: Permanent, full-time
About the Role
The Director, FinOps will build, lead, and mature an enterprise FinOps program focused on sustainable cloud cost optimization while protecting reliability, security, and engineering productivity. This strategic and hands‑on role will own the FinOps strategy, operating model, governance framework, optimization pipeline, forecasting discipline, and savings targets across Azure and platform services. The Director will partner with Engineering, Cloud Operations, Product, Finance, and senior leadership. Success requires executive‑level communication combined with hands‑on analysis, reporting, optimization tracking, governance, and the ability to establish strong cloud cost accountability across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the enterprise FinOps strategy, operating model, and governance framework.




- Build and manage a cloud cost optimization pipeline covering opportunity identification, impact analysis, prioritization, execution, savings verification, and regression prevention.
- Establish quarterly and annual savings targets covering hard savings, unit-cost improvements, and cost avoidance.
- Identify cloud cost drivers and convert findings into measurable optimization initiatives.
- Establish cost ownership and accountability across teams.
- Lead cloud budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario planning.
- Develop showback/chargeback and cost‑allocation practices.
- Define and monitor unit economics, including cost per customer, transaction, environment, or deployment.
- Improve tagging standards, allocation accuracy, commitment planning, anomaly detection, and benefits tracking.
- Develop business cases and assess ROI and financial impact for optimization initiatives.
- Establish defensible baselines and methodologies for measuring realized savings

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