Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate, and they are seeking a Director of Financial Systems. This role involves leading the FinOps strategy across a multi-cloud environment, managing cloud budgets, and overseeing relationships with international vendors.
Responsibilities
- Lead the centralized FinOps strategy across an international multi-cloud footprint, focusing heavily on GCP and AWS optimization
- Design and maintain sophisticated cost-allocation frameworks for all shared cloud resources, translating complex multi-tenant consumption into transparent, actionable product margins
- Manage the financial impact of our AI roadmap. You will oversee current model consumption costs and build the fiscal framework for our transition into building and training custom models
- End-to-end management of cloud budgets and third-party hosting licenses, leveraging variance analysis and capacity planning to translate dynamic engineering metrics into predictable, accurate financial forecasts
- Act as the primary lead for global vendor relationships. You will drive enterprise negotiations, contract renewals, and strategic partnerships to maximize value across different international regions
- Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership to provide 'Cloud TCO' visibility, leveraging both industry-standard platforms and custom in-house tooling
- Lead the development of the FinOps team, mentoring and fostering their technical growth and career progression
Skills
- 5+ years in technology operations, procurement, or cloud finance, with at least 2–3 years of experience in a formal people management or leadership role
- Demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between Finance, DevOps/SRE, R&D and Product teams, fostering a cost-conscious engineering culture without bottlenecking innovation or deployment speed
- Proven experience with production-grade environments in GCP and AWS, including deep knowledge of billing, commitment models, and discount structures
- Deep technical expertise across modern cloud ecosystems, including Kubernetes resource management, serverless compute, storage lifecycle tiering, and managed databases with a proven ability to translate complex architectural configurations into optimized unit economics
- A track record of operating successfully in a decentralized management structure, negotiating high-value, international contracts with major technology providers
- Familiarity with the cost drivers of AI, from API consumption tokens to the compute-intensive requirements of model training
- Ability to manage expectations and prioritize work across multiple 'customer' teams and Engineering Managers
- Comfortable leading through a broad range of technologies and shifting priorities as we move from AI consumption to model building
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to provide a 'safety net' during complex architectural shifts or cost anomalies
- Must be able to maintain high-bandwidth communication with global leadership and peers over textual mediums and video conferencing
- Exceptional presentation/leadership skills, concise and fluent communication
Benefits
- In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being.
- Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training.
- Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply.
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