Director, FinOps; Cloud Financial Management

Location: Toronto, Ontario
Work Model: Hybrid — minimum 3 days onsite per week
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time

This leadership position is responsible for building and maturing an enterprise Fin Ops program focused on sustainable cloud cost optimization while maintaining reliability, security, and engineering productivity. The role combines strategic ownership with hands‑on execution across analysis, reporting, optimization tracking, governance, and follow‑up. The Director will lead the Fin Ops strategy, operating model, cost optimization pipeline, forecasting discipline, governance cadence, and savings targets.

This work will be carried out in close partnership with Engineering, Cloud Operations, Product, Finance, and senior leadership. The role requires the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders, establish cost accountability, and promote cost‑aware decision‑making across the organization.

• Own and evolve the enterprise Fin Ops strategy, operating model, and governance framework across Azure and platform services.
• Build and manage a cloud cost optimization pipeline covering opportunity identification, impact analysis, prioritization, execution, savings validation, and regression prevention.
• Lead quarterly and annual cloud savings targets using clear methods for hard savings, unit‑cost improvement, and cost avoidance.
• Identify cloud cost drivers and convert findings into measurable optimization initiatives.
• Establish ownership and accountability for cloud costs across teams.
• Lead cloud budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario planning.
• Develop showback/chargeback practices and cost‑allocation methodologies.
• Define and track unit economics such as cost per customer, transaction, environment, or deployment.
• Improve financial discipline through tagging standards, allocation accuracy, commitment planning, anomaly detection, and benefits tracking.
• Build business cases and assess ROI and financial impact for optimization initiatives.
• Establish baselines and methodologies for measuring and reporting realized savings.
• Partner with Engineering and Cloud Operations to incorporate cost considerations into architecture reviews, backlog prioritization, release planning, and operational decisions.
• Drive optimization across Azure compute and infrastructure, AKS/Kubernetes, rightsizing, scheduling, storage tiering, networking, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and observability/monitoring costs.
• Translate technical and infrastructure decisions into financial impact and cost‑to‑serve implications.
• Establish practical cost‑efficiency policies and guardrails aligned with engineering delivery.
• Support Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops practices where appropriate.
• Implement and mature cloud cost visibility, reporting, dashboards, alerts, and automation using Azure-native tooling and/or Fin Ops platforms.
• Develop anomaly detection, automated cleanup, cost monitoring, and optimization‑tracking processes.
• Establish cost observability practices across Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Improve the quality and availability of cloud cost data used for decision‑making.
• Own the Fin Ops governance cadence, including analysis, tracking, follow‑up, and optimization reviews.
• Develop executive reporting on cost drivers, risks, savings progress, forecasts, KPIs, and recommendations.
• Provide clear recommendations and trade‑offs to senior leadership.
• Lead and mentor a small Fin Ops team or function, with potential for future growth.
• Establish team goals, operating cadence, accountability, and continuous‑improvement practices.
• Build training and enablement initiatives to improve Fin Ops awareness and…