FinOps Manager

CRC Group • Morrisville, NC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

In this role, you will own cloud financial management for CRC Group's Microsoft Azure estate, making cloud spend visible, predictable, and defensible. You will build and maintain the cost allocation and showback model, drive optimization campaigns with platform engineering and application teams, manage the commitment portfolio, and deliver a forecast Finance can book against. Your leadership will be critical in establishing FinOps as a discipline at CRC Group and in converting identified cloud savings into realized, evidenced financial impact across Enterprise Technology & Operations.

CRC Group's Azure estate spans approximately 460 subscriptions across six enrollments and roughly 4,400 distinct resource types, with approximately $20M in annual spend.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in cloud financial management, cloud infrastructure, or technology finance, including at least 3 years hands-on with Azure cost management specifically.
• Demonstrated ownership of an Azure estate of at least $20M in annual spend across multiple enrollments or billing scopes, with quantifiable, evidenced savings delivered.
• Deep working knowledge of Azure commercial constructs: EA/MCA billing hierarchy, enrollment accounts, MACC consumption commitments, SCE, reservations, savings plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, marketplace charges, and the Azure pricing and billing data model.
• Demonstrated month-end close discipline: accruals, invoice validation, journal entry allocation, and reconciliation to an ERP or general ledger.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement processes and procedures.
• Expert user of Microsoft Office Suite; especially Excel financial modeling and PowerPoint
• Strong Power BI skills, including comfort working against a governed semantic model rather than report-level logic
• Advanced command of Azure Cost Management + Billing, Azure Advisor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Graph, and management group/subscription design
• Working proficiency in at least one of SQL, KQL, Python, or PowerShell for billing data analysis and automation, including the Microsoft FinOps Toolkit and Cost Management APIs
• Experience with FOCUS-format billing data and lakehouse-based cost modeling (Azure Databricks or Fabric)
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow and Workday for asset, contract, purchase order, and invoice reconciliation

Nice To Haves

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional (FinOps Foundation); Microsoft AZ-900, AZ-104, or AZ-305 certification.
• M&A and divestiture experience including cost separation, tenant migration modeling, and TSA-period spend tracking; insurance or financial services industry experience.
• Background in FP&A, cost accounting, or technology procurement, and exposure to software asset and AI spend management (M365, Copilot, GitHub, Adobe).
• Familiarity with third-party FinOps platforms (Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Finout, Vantage, Harness), Kubernetes cost allocation, and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Bicep, Infracost).

Responsibilities

• Own the cost allocation model end-to-end across all Azure enrollments — management group hierarchy, subscription strategy, resource group conventions, and the tagging taxonomy that maps spend to cost centers, applications, and business lines — and maintain the subscription-to-showback and resource group override mapping, keeping unallocated cost visible so Finance can trust the numbers.
• Design and maintain reporting so every technology and business leader across CRC Group, CRC Specialty, CRC Benefits, Starwind, and TAPCO can see consumption, trend, and variance. Establish defensible splitting methodologies for shared and untaggable costs including multi-tenant clusters, shared data platforms, and Log Analytics ingestion.
• Run a continuous optimization pipeline — identify, quantify, prioritize, assign, and verify savings with before/after evidence — targeting idle and orphaned resources, over-provisioned VMs and SQL, storage tiering, and ingestion sprawl; extend the Azure Hybrid Benefit conversion program and partner with cloud operations and platform engineering on right-sizing, autoscaling, spot workloads, and non-production scheduling.
• Track MACC burn-down and manage the commitment portfolio of Reserved Instances and Azure Savings Plans, maintaining coverage at 70%+ and utilization above 90%; support EA, SCE, MCA, and Microsoft Unified Support renewals and true-ups, and validate reseller or CSP proposals against CRC's current Azure commitment discount.
• Produce a rolling 12–18 month Azure forecast at business-line granularity with documented assumptions, model CapEx/OpEx and EBITDA versus non-EBITDA impacts, and explain material variances within five business days, distinguishing growth, waste, rate change, and one-time events.
• Own the monthly accrual cycle and deliver the approved accrual summary by business day one, validate Microsoft invoices against accruals around the tenth of each month, produce invoice allocation summaries for journal entry, route to Accounts Payable, and reconcile Azure billing data to Workday.
• Develop, maintain, and deliver board-ready cost materials, MACC executive tracking, and portfolio dashboards that support decision-making by senior technology, finance, and business leadership.
• Establish FinOps policies, budgets, alerts, Azure Policy enforcement, and anomaly detection with triage within 24 hours; chair a recurring cloud cost governance forum with Technology Operations, Cloud Platform Engineering, Finance, and Procurement.
• Act as business owner for the FinOps Intelligence Platform and own the tooling stack and data pipeline behind it — FOCUS 1.2 cost exports, Azure Resource Graph, Azure Monitor, Azure Advisor, Databricks, and Power BI — automating recurring analysis and remediation with Python, PowerShell, KQL, and the Microsoft FinOps Toolkit.
• Advance CRC Group along the FinOps Foundation framework and personas model (Crawl → Walk → Run), stand up the FinOps education and champions program, and establish templates and standards for cost estimation in architecture review, capacity planning, and project launch readiness.
• Lead, mentor, and manage (directly or indirectly) FinOps analysts, interns, and offshore partner resources, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and AD&D insurance
• tax-advantaged savings accounts
• 401(k) plan with company match
• generous paid time off programs, including company holidays, vacation and sick days, new parent leave
• restricted stock units
• deferred compensation plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager