Senior Consultant, FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization

The Senior Consultant, Fin Ops Strategy, Governance & Value Realization is a senior individual contributor role focused on improving how Trans Union manages cloud and AI economics, infrastructure cost transparency, capacity planning, and value realization. The role sits within the GTDA Fin Ops Strategy, Governance & Value Realization team, which works across technology, finance, and business leadership to strengthen reporting, governance, and decision-making around infrastructure spend.

This position partners closely with Cloud Engineering, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Finance, and business stakeholders. Its purpose is to provide trusted reporting, support capacity and utilisation planning, and help turn optimization opportunities into validated financial outcomes.

The role also helps establish governance standards, playbooks, RACIs, and escalation paths, while supporting embedded Fin Ops leaders with consistent data, benchmarks, and operating practices. It is a hybrid position and requires in-person work at an assigned Trans Union office location for at least two days per week.

• Own reporting for cloud, AI, and on-prem infrastructure spend across leadership audiences.
• Consolidate demand signals, analyze utilisation trends, and support forward-looking capacity planning decisions.
• Manage optimization opportunities from identification through Finance-validated realization.
• Develop Fin Ops governance materials, including standards, playbooks, RACIs, reporting frameworks, and escalation models.
• Support federated Fin Ops teams with training, data packages, benchmarks, and operating guidance.
• Partner with engineering, finance, and business leaders to drive accountability, cost ownership, and decision-making.
• Build and maintain capacity utilisation reporting across server, storage, network, VMware, database, and related infrastructure domains.
• Translate complex infrastructure and cost data into executive-ready recommendations and narratives.
• Mentor or guide junior analysts or consultants where needed.

• Experience in cloud financial management, infrastructure capacity planning, IT finance, enterprise reporting, or a closely related analytical field.
• Advanced understanding of cloud and business capacity planning, including performance analysis and executive reporting.
• Strong knowledge of public cloud platforms, specifically GCP and/or AWS.
• Experience with savings plans, committed-use discounts, reservations, tagging strategies, and resource lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in Google Big Query for large-scale cloud cost and usage analysis.
• Deep hands‑on knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, including server, storage, network, virtualization (VMware), database, middleware, and common operating systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience building and owning capacity utilisation reporting across infrastructure domains.
• Ability to analyze usage statistics, create forward-looking capacity projections, and validate assumptions with stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work independently and lead complex analytical work streams in a fast-paced, multi-priority environment.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to build cross‑functional consensus and drive decisions in a matrixed or federated organization.

• Fin Ops Foundation certification (FOCP or equivalent), or equivalent demonstrated Fin Ops operating model expertise.
• Scripting or automation experience with VBA, Power Shell, SQL, or Python.
• Experience with cloud cost tooling such as Harness CCM.
• Experience with Splunk or similar observability/analytics platforms.
• Experience integrating cloud or AI…