FinOps Practitioner – Cloud Financial Management & Governance

Our client, a major organization in the Belgian public transport sector, is looking for a FinOps Practitioner to lead the coordination and advancement of cloud financial initiatives. This role involves planning and prioritizing optimization efforts across diverse technology areas while fostering a shared language between finance and engineering teams.

• Monitor and optimize multi-cloud usage and costs using techniques like reserved instances, spot instances, and autoscaling.
• Establish cloud financial governance standards including tagging, cost allocation, and budget controls.
• Develop accurate budgets and forecasts while implementing chargeback and showback models.
• Produce actionable cost reports and dashboards aligned with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).
• Lead the coordination of FinOps improvement actions and optimization efforts across the organization.
• Partner with procurement to negotiate contracts, enterprise agreements, and discount strategies.
• Integrate FinOps practices and spend monitoring into CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.

• You have 5+ years of professional experience in FinOps.
• You possess experience with at least two hyperscalers, with mandatory expertise in Azure.
• You bring demonstrable experience in enterprise Cloud, DataCenter, Licensing, IA, and SaaS budgeting and forecasting.
• You have valid FinOps Certified Practitioner and FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst certifications.
• You're proficient in defining tagging and cost allocation standards.
• You possess the ability to design Reserved Instance and Savings Plan strategies and identify cost savings through rightsizing.
• You bring knowledge of Belgian and EU financial, security, and reporting regulations.
• You're able to train and mentor teams to embed FinOps practices across the organization.
• You are fluent in English at a C1 level.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building automated dashboards for anomaly detection and cost insights.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code integrations.

• Start date: 01/05/2026
• Duration: 6 months (until 31/10/2026)
• Work regime: Full-time
• Location: Brussels
• Working model: Hybrid (minimum 4 days per month onsite)
• Contract: open to both permanent employees and freelancers