Title: Director FinOps

Location: Toronto, ON

Duration: Full-time Permanent role

Experience & Leadership

• 10+ years in cloud/platform, finance/FP&A, technology operations, or FinOps-related roles, with 3+ years in a leadership role (Director/Head/Lead).
• Proven track record of delivering material, measurable cloud savings (multi-quarter) and improving cost-to-serve.
• Strong influencing skills—able to drive outcomes across Engineering/Finance without relying on direct authority.

Financial Acumen

• Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, business casing, and ROI.
• Able to define and defend savings measurement, including baseline methodology and benefits tracking.

Cloud & Technical Understanding (Azure)

• Solid understanding of Azure cost drivers and architecture patterns (compute, AKS/Kubernetes, storage, networking, observability).
• Ability to translate technical choices into financial impact and guide teams toward cost-efficient designs.

Communication & Operating Rigor

• Executive-level communication: concise narratives, decision memos, and KPI reporting.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity; builds structure, cadence, and accountability.

Core Competencies (what “great” looks like)

• Idea-generation + execution discipline: consistently finds savings opportunities and gets them implemented.
• Influence at scale: changes behaviors across teams; builds “cost ownership” culture.
• Analytical depth: identifies true cost drivers, avoids vanity metrics, and ties actions to outcomes.
• Pragmatic governance: sets guardrails that enable speed, not bureaucracy.
• Partnership mindset: aligns Finance and Engineering on shared goals and language.

Nice to have

• FinOps Foundation certification (Practitioner/Professional) and/or Azure certifications.
• Experience implementing showback/chargeback and unit-cost models at scale.
• Experience with IaC/GitOps environments (Terraform/Argo CD) and cost controls integrated into delivery pipelines.