FinOps Practitioner – Azure & Cloud Financial Management

Our client, a prominent organization in the transportation sector, is looking for a specialist to lead the advancement of cloud financial initiatives. This role focuses on optimizing multi-cloud usage, enforcing governance standards, and bridging the gap between finance and technology stakeholders to ensure strategic cost alignment.

• Monitor and analyze multi-cloud usage to implement optimization techniques including reserved instances, spot instances, and right-sizing.
• Define and enforce cloud financial governance standards through tagging, cost allocation, and budget controls.
• Implement complex chargeback and showback models to align consumption with strategic financial targets.
• Produce actionable cost and usage reports for engineering leads and executives in alignment with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).
• Educate engineering and product teams on cost-aware design principles and foster a shared language between finance and IT.
• Partner with procurement to negotiate contracts, enterprise agreements, and discount strategies.

• 5+ years of professional experience in FinOps and cloud financial management.
• Proven expertise in enterprise Cloud, DataCenter, Licensing, IA, and SaaS budgeting and forecasting.
• Hands-on experience with at least two hyperscalers, with mandatory proficiency in Azure.
• Demonstrable experience implementing showback or chargeback cost allocation models.
• Possess valid FinOps Certified Practitioner and FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst certifications.
• Ability to define and maintain FinOps processes, KPIs, review cadences, and Infrastructure as Code integrations.
• Ability to build automated dashboards delivering reliable and actionable cost insights.
• You're able to train, mentor, and collaborate across engineering, finance, and procurement teams.
• You are fluent in English at a C1 level.

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of Belgian and EU financial, security, and reporting regulations for public companies.
• Experience with automated anomaly detection and reporting tools.

• Start date: 01/01/2027
• Duration: project until 31/12/2027
• Work regime: Full-time
• Location: Brussels
• Working model: Hybrid with up to 5 days onsite as required.
• Contract: open to both permanent employees and freelancers