FinOps Consultant
Principal level
Technology Transformation (Enterprise Technology) practice
About Us
Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You will be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300,000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?
About Your Role
As a Principal FinOps Consultant within our Cloud & Infrastructure capability, you will lead and advise clients on establishing, scaling, and embedding cloud financial management and value optimisation practices. You will act as a senior advisor to technology, finance, and business leaders, ensuring cloud investment is transparent, governed, and aligned to business outcomes.
Operating at a principal level, you will define enterprise FinOps strategies, operating models, and optimisation roadmaps, working across cloud platforms, delivery teams, finance functions, and executive stakeholders. You will ensure FinOps is embedded as a sustainable capability, supporting financial accountability, engineering efficiency, and continuous optimisation across large-scale cloud estates.
You will play a key role in major cloud transformation programmes, influencing architecture and operating decisions through a cost, value, and business-outcome lens, while contributing to propositions, thought leadership, and the ongoing development of our Cloud Economics and FinOps offerings.
Key Responsibilities & Capabilities
Define and lead enterprise FinOps strategies across public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud)
Advise senior technology, finance, and business stakeholders on cloud cost governance and value optimisation
Design and implement FinOps operating models, including chargeback/showback, budgeting, forecasting, and cost allocation
Establish KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to provide transparency into cloud spend, efficiency, and business value
Lead optimisation initiatives including rightsizing, rate optimisation, commitment management, and workload efficiency
Embed cost-aware practices into architecture, platform, and engineering design decisions
Support large-scale cloud migrations and modernisation programmes from a financial and value perspective
Contribute to proposals, client engagements, and offerings within the Cloud & Infrastructure capability
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
Strong experience across cloud, financial management, technology consulting, or related disciplines
Strong practical experience applying FinOps principles at enterprise scale
Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and optimisation
Experience operating across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Strong communication skills and ability to engage confidently with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred / Desirable Experience
Experience of Commercial FinOps vendors/platforms
FinOps Foundation certifications (Practitioner or Professional)
Experience aligning cloud spend to business value and investment decision-making
Familiarity with FinOps tooling ecosystems and native cloud cost management services
Experience working within regulated or complex enterprise environments
Experience with Technology Business Management (TBM) frameworks
Remediation strategies, including the use of automation to prevent, detect, and correct cost inefficiencies and policy breaches
General Information
Willingness and ability to travel across client sites within the EMEA region
Fluent spoken and written German and English (additional languages advantageous depending on location)
Personal Attributes
Highly analytical and structured problem-solver
Able to translate complex financial and technical concepts into…