Senior Manager, Global FinOps

# Senior Manager, Global Fin Ops Waltham Fin Ops
100k – 150k22/05/2026

Full-time

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Job Description Work Schedule  Standard (Mon-Fri)  Environmental Conditions  Office  As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Manager of Global Fin Ops is responsible for leading the organization’s cloud financial management strategy, optimizing spend across multi-cloud environments, and driving accountability between engineering, finance, and business units. This role ensures cost transparency, operational efficiency, and alignment of cloud investments with business value at a global scale.  You will act as a strategic partner across Finance, Engineering, Procurement, Customers and Executive Leadership to implement Fin Ops best practices, establish governance frameworks, and enable data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities  Fin Ops Strategy & Leadership  Define and execute the global Fin Ops strategy aligned with organizational financial and operational goals  Lead the adoption of the Fin Ops Framework (inform, optimize, operate) across all business units  Build and mature Fin Ops capabilities, including tooling, processes, and organizational alignment  Serve as the subject matter expert on cloud cost management and financial governance  Cloud Cost Management & Optimization  Oversee cost visibility, allocation, and forecasting across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other platforms  Drive cost optimization initiatives (rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, workload scheduling)  Establish and monitor KPIs such as unit economics, cost per service, and efficiency ratios  Partner with engineering teams to embed cost-aware architecture and design principles  Collaborate with FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for cloud spend  Develop financial models to evaluate cloud investments and ROI  Translate technical usage data into financial insights for executive stakeholders  Governance & Policy Development  Design and enforce cloud financial governance policies and controls  Ensure compliance with internal financial standards and external regulatory requirements  Standardize tagging, cost allocation, and chargeback/showback models globally  Cross-Functional Collaboration  Partner with Engineering, Dev Ops, Product, and Procurement to align cost and usage strategies  Influence engineering roadmaps to incorporate cost optimization opportunities  Work with vendors and cloud providers to negotiate pricing and contracts  Reporting & Executive Communication  Deliver executive-level reporting on cloud spend, trends, risks, and optimization opportunities  Build dashboards and reporting frameworks for real-time cost visibility  Communicate complex financial and technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders  Team Leadership & Development  Lead and develop a high-performing global Fin Ops team  Establish best practices, training programs, and knowledge-sharing initiatives  Foster a culture of cost accountability and financial ownership across teams  

Required Qualifications  Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or related field (MBA preferred)  8–12+ years of experience in Finance, Cloud Operations, Fin Ops, or related disciplines  3–5+ years in a leadership or management role  Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cost management tools  Strong understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and cost allocation methodologies  Experience implementing Fin Ops frameworks in large, global organizations  

Preferred Qualifications  Fin Ops Certified Practitioner or Professional certification  

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