Cox Automotive is expanding our Financial Operations (FinOps) capability to accelerate business value from our cloud and SaaS investments. In this role, you'll lead cross-functional initiatives that bring financial transparency, accountability, and continuous optimization to our cloud platforms and key SaaS tools. You'll partner with Technology, Product, Finance, and Accounting to operate the Cloud Business Office's chargeback processes, designed to promote success for our teams operating in the cloud.
What You'll Do
- Own the FinOps process: establish governance, KPIs, and cadences that make cost and usage data visible and actionable across teams.
- Lead cloud and SaaS cost optimization across cloud platforms, and key SaaS tools. Partner with Engineering to right-size, evolve architectures, and capture savings without slowing delivery.
- This position will begin as an individual contributor, focused on delivering high-impact results through strategic execution and cross-functional collaboration. However, as the scope of the role expands, there is a strong potential for this position to evolve into a team leadership role, managing a small group of direct reports.
- We are seeking candidates who not only excel in independent execution but also demonstrate leadership capabilities, including mentoring, stakeholder engagement, and strategic thinking. Ideal candidates will have the experience or aptitude to lead teams, influence outcomes, and contribute to organizational growth.
- Design and run chargeback/showback models that allocate spend to products, portfolios, and business units; create clear, repeatable monthly processes with Finance and Accounting.
- Guide vendor strategy with Sourcing/Procurement-support renewals and commitments with consumption forecasts and optimization roadmaps.
- Enable the enterprise on cost-aware operations -coach teams on engineering, budget guardrails, and FinOps best practices; contribute to playbooks and brown-bag sessions.
- Deliver executive-ready communications-crisp summaries of trends, drivers, savings, and risks for senior leaders.
Who You Are
- A FinOps leader who blends financial acumen with technical fluency-equally comfortable in a GL conversation or a cloud design review.
- A collaborator who builds trust with Engineering, Finance, and Accounting, who can simplify complex cost topics for broad audiences.
Qualifications (Required)
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years' experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field.
- 8+ years in Finance/Accounting, Cloud Economics, or FinOps.
- 3+ years focused on public cloud or data platform cost management (AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS platforms).
- Hands-on experience with chargeback/showback, and variance analysis; proven ability to build monthly processes with Accounting.
- Proficiency with cost tooling and telemetry (e.g., CloudZero, CloudHealth, Cloudability, cloud provider native tools.).
- Strong presentation skills with a track record of influencing decisions through clear narratives and metrics.
Preferred
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar.
- Familiarity with product-centric unit economics and with guiding multi-year vendor commitment strategies.
USD 108,800.00 - 181,400.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $108,800.00 - $181,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
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