FinOps & Value Realization Lead

D.R. Horton • Arlington, TX

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About The Position

D.R. Horton is seeking a FinOps & Value Realization Lead to ensure that investments in data, AI, cloud, platforms, and digital capabilities produce measurable business value and sustainable economics. The role connects financial transparency, unit economics, benefits realization, consumption management, and investment decisions, helping leaders scale effective initiatives and address those that do not deliver. The position combines financial discipline, technology fluency, analytical thinking, and the ability to influence decisions with clear evidence. Success includes tracking value cases for major investments, understanding AI and platform costs per unit of work, and using evidence to guide scale-or-stop decisions.

The role partners with Finance, Product, and business owners, establishes platform and AI FinOps practices, analyzes technology delivery and sourcing economics, and provides recurring portfolio reporting. It also participates in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational readiness, and continuous improvement, while identifying and piloting opportunities for data, AI, and digital capabilities to create business value. Overnight travel is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Analytics, Business, Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of experience in financial analysis, FinOps, technology finance, value realization, strategic finance, analytics, or related roles.
• Advanced analytical and financial-modeling skills, including the ability to translate technical consumption into business economics.
• Experience with technology budgets, cloud or platform consumption, software licensing, vendor economics, or capital planning.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization while balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities.
• Strong ability to challenge assumptions constructively and communicate financial insights to technical and business leaders.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.

Nice To Haves

• FinOps certification or experience with Snowflake, Azure, AI infrastructure including hybrid-cloud and on-premises economics, AI unit economics such as cost per token, task, or outcome, SaaS consumption, or technology portfolio economics.
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business.
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments.
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Define value-realization methods connecting initiative baselines, targets, adoption, operational KPIs, and financial outcomes.
• Partner with Finance, Product, and business owners to validate business cases and track realized versus expected benefits.
• Establish platform and AI FinOps practices for consumption monitoring, forecasting, budgeting, unit economics, anomaly detection, and cost-visibility reporting.
• Analyze the economics of build, buy, partner, cloud, on-premises, and managed-service options, and communicate tradeoffs to leadership.
• Create recurring portfolio reporting on investment, run cost, benefits, utilization, and scale decisions.
• Validate realized benefits against approved business cases; distinguish financial savings from cost avoidance and productivity gains; and prevent duplicate attribution across initiatives.
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate.
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices, applying new capabilities when they create practical business value.
• Identify, shape, and pilot opportunities for data, AI, and digital capabilities to create business value, using an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly.
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner.
• Travel overnight.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Flex Spending Accounts.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Vacation, sick, and personal time, plus company holidays.
• Multiple voluntary and company-provided benefits.

What This Job Offers

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