FinOps Lead
About The Position
We are seeking a Financial Operations (FinOps) Lead to manage cloud financial governance, cloud credit procurement alignment, chargeback/showback, cost optimization, anomaly detection, forecasting, and compliance across the VA Enterprise Cloud Brokerage Service. This role ensures alignment with Veteran Affairs (VA) fiscal policy and FinOps best practices while supporting a largescale federal cloud environment. This position is primarily remote, however, the employee MUST live within 60 miles from either the Washington, DC or Falls Church, Virginia office. This position will be required to travel to Veteran Affairs facilities nationwide 4x/year. This position is contingent upon contract award, expected to start in November 2026.
Requirements
- US Citizen or Green Card Holder
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
- FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification
- Cloud cost management certification from at least one CSP-specific cloud financial: AWS Cloud Financial Management, Azure etc.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, IT, or related field
- Minimum 7+ years of IT financial management
- Minimum 4+ years in cloud FinOps
- Experience with federal finance, budgeting, and oversight
- Experience managing $30M+ annual cloud spend within financial operations.
- Strong dashboarding and data visualization experience
- Proficiency with financial analysis tools
- Highly analytical and detail‑oriented
- Strong modeling and forecasting abilities
- Effective communicator with technical and business teams
- Primarily remote, however, the employee MUST live within 60 miles from either the Washington, DC or Falls Church, Virginia office.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with VA
Responsibilities
- Driving cloud financial governance and chargeback/show back models
- Leading reconciliation, variance analysis, and forecasting
- Managing optimization strategies including RI/SP modeling
- Overseeing anomaly detection and consumption trend analysis
- Supporting procurement strategies for credits and financial commitments
- Developing executive level dashboards and optimization reports
Benefits
- Medical plan options
- Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Military leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
