FinOps Practitioner

As a FinOps Practitioner you will be a key enabler focused on maximizing the value and efficiency of our cloud investment. You will be the driving force behind cloud financial excellence proactively partnering with engineering finance and delivery teams while overseeing FinOps governance. A key part of your role is bridging diverse viewpoints connecting for example the infrastructure-provisioning engineer with the finance stakeholder reviewing the cloud bill and the cloud architect optimizing workloads with the decision-maker setting budgets.

Your mission is not only to reduce cloud spend but to advocate a culture of financial accountability and cost-conscious engineering across the organization. You will translate business objectives into formal FinOps driven policies within the platforms tagging standards and governance frameworks. You will trigger and assist on deep-dive root cause analysis on cost anomalies and overruns then storyline the findings to associated IT Platform and Product Owners bringing transparency and awareness to our cloud economics and acting as a cost provocateur when necessary to drive excellence. By feeding business reviews and delivery discussions with compelling financial insights you will guide the wider organization toward smarter more sustainable cloud usage.

Yourroleandresponsibilities

Insight Generation & Cloud Cost Analysis:

• Perform deep-dive root cause analysis to understand the drivers of cloud overspend whether they are architectural process-related or governance gaps.

• Document findings and quantify the business impact of cost inefficiencies effectively storylining the analysis to support prioritization and remediation efforts.

• Conduct thorough cost profiling on managed accounts to identify waste anomalies rightsizing opportunities and commitment coverage gaps.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Standard Setting:

• Foster cross-functional collaboration by working closely with IT engineers delivery leads and client finance teams to define document and enforce clear FinOps rules tagging standards and cost allocation models.

• Translate business and commercial requirements into technical specifications that enable automated cost controls budget alerts and governance guardrails in cloud environments.

• Act as the key liaison between technical and non-technical audiences ensuring a shared understanding of cloud financial principles and their impact on the business.

Monitoring & Reporting:

• Develop and maintain cloud cost dashboards and showback reporting to provide ongoing visibility into the health and performance of managed accounts.

• Drive shared cost allocations.

• Monitor actively FinOps KPIs over time including savings delivered forecast accuracy unit economics commitment utilization and report findings to leadership and clients

Optimisation & Continuous Improvement:

• Work with IT engineering and architecture teams to define and execute cloud cost optimisation initiatives spanning Reserved Instances Savings Plans rightsizing scheduling and waste elimination.

• Accountable for maintaining a view on the contractual commitment coverage towards the cloud reseller (e.g. DoiT Elastic Oracle).

• Support delivery and client teams in improving cloud provisioning and resource management practices at source instilling a proactive cost-prevention mindset.

• Continuously evaluate FinOps tooling and practices to improve the teams efficiency and the quality of insights delivered to clients.

Howtosucceed/Yourprofile

• You possess a foundational understanding of cloud computing layersspecifically IaaS PaaS and SaaSand demonstrate a strong commitment to mastering the FinOps discipline.

• Your background includes 1 to 3 years of experience in a cloud-related or financial role where you have developed a clear affinity for technology and data.

• Ideally you are a FinOps Certified Practitioner or have the drive to obtain this certification shortly after joining the team.

• You are capable of assisting in the development of sophisticated cloud financial models including budgeting forecasting and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis.

• You demonstrate a high level of comfort working with cloud billing tools and reporting platforms to extract and interpret complex usage data.

• Your natural curiosity drives you to perform deep-dive root cause analyses whenever cost anomalies or budget overruns occur.

• You enjoy the challenge of translating broad business objectives into structured policies tagging standards and governance frameworks.

• You have a meticulous eye for detail that ensures cloud economics are transparent and that financial insights are based on accurate well-governed data.

• You excel at turning raw data into compelling storylines that help IT platform and product owners understand the business value behind their cloud spend.

• You act as a vital bridge between diverse departments successfully connecting the technical world of infrastructure engineers with the financial world of budget owners.

• You are comfortable acting as a cost provocateur who respectfully challenges the status quo to guide the organization toward smarter more sustainable cloud usage.

• Your communication style is clear and inclusive allowing you to manage stakeholder expectations and escalate critical issues with professional grace.

• You thrive in an entrepreneurial and fast-growing environment bringing a down-to-earth attitude that fits perfectly within a family-oriented innovative culture.

• You are a proactive advocate for a culture of financial accountability leading by example to ensure cost-conscious engineering becomes a standard practice.

• Bachelors or Masters degree (or equivalent by experience) in Information Systems Computer Science Finance Economics or a related field.

• 13 years of experience in a cloud finance or IT operations role direct FinOps experience is a plus but not required; curiosity and a willingness to learn the discipline matters more.

• A high-level understanding of cloud computing services across its service layersIaaS SaaS and PaaS.

• Basic familiarity with financial management principlesbudgeting forecasting and cost analysiswhether gained through work experience academic study or personal interest.

• Comfortable working with data: able to query manipulate and interpret datasets to surface insights. Experience with SQL Excel or similar tools is valued.

• Exposure to data visualization or reporting tools (e.g. Tableau Power BI or cloud-native cost dashboards) is a plus.

• A highly analytical and problem-solving mindset with a natural inclination to ask why costs look the way they do.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP) or a demonstrated willingness to pursue it shortly after joining is a plus.

• Fluent in English.

Whats in it for you

You will become part of a people-oriented company where your well-being really matters. Flexible working hours work from home possibilities 20 days holiday and 12 WTR days within a 40-hour week. At our headquarters you will also discover our TVH Park a green area where you can move around and have the possibility to relax meet or have lunch. Furthermore we also offer:

• An attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits such as company car group and hospitalization insurance luncheon vouchers corporate restaurant ...

• An exciting position in an international company with a family atmosphere where people are at the center.

• You are part of a dynamic entrepreneurial team that is fast-growing and at the center of the transformation.

• You arrive in an innovative progressive and technological environment.

• Numerous opportunities for personal development among other things through permanent guidance and professional (internal/external) training courses.

• Fun afterworks and other optional events (e.g. TVH Kaffee).

People are at our heart

TVH is a global business with a family atmosphere where people are at the center. We value clarity mutual respect kindness and open communication. Our people are down-to-earth easy to work and engage with. We welcome differences and celebrate new ideas.

About TVH

TVH is a parts specialist for quality parts and accessories for material handling industrial vehicles and construction and agricultural equipment. Working at TVH is opting for a company that excels as an international market leader and is well-known for its unstoppable craving for innovation