FinOps & Technology Cost Optimization Specialist, operations

Our client, a large pension fund is looking for a Fin Ops & Technology Cost Optimization Specialist, operations to join them on a 12 month assignment

The position follows a hybrid work model, requiring three days per week onsite and two days remote from the client's office in Downtown Toronto. The ideal candidates will have strong data analysis and cloud financial management capabilities to support the analysis, reconciliation, and optimization of technology spend across multiple cloud and technology vendors.

• Analyze large volumes of billing, usage, consumption, pricing, and utilization data from multiple technology and cloud vendors.
• Consolidate and normalize data across vendors to provide a consistent view of technology consumption and spending.
• Perform detailed analysis of cloud and technology spending to identify key cost drivers, trends, and optimization opportunities.
• Support cost allocation, showback/chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Analyze actual spending against budgets, forecasts, contracts, and expected consumption
• Combine data from cloud providers, SaaS vendors, internal financial systems, procurement systems, CMDB/application inventories, and other enterprise data sources.
• Work with large datasets using tools such as SQL, Excel, Power BI, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar analytical platforms.

• Strong experience in Fin Ops, technology financial management, cloud cost management, vendor analytics, or financial/data analysis.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing large and complex datasets from multiple sources.
• Strong SQL and advanced Excel skills, with the ability to manipulate, reconcile, and analyze large datasets.
• Experience with visualization and analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience analyzing cloud billing and consumption data from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or other major technology vendors.
• Strong understanding of consumption-based pricing, cloud billing structures, commitments, discounts, and cost allocation.

The Mason Group is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and accessible recruitment process. We welcome applicants from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all stages of the recruitment process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

This role is for an immediate vacancy, and we are actively hiring.

Technology-assisted screening tools including AI may be used during the recruitment process; however, all applications are reviewed by our Consultants.