Director, Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps)

$190000 - $210000 / year Bonus

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business boost their productivity and efficiencies and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation technology partnerships and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create think and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver Colorado with offices across the U.S. Canada and India.

About the Role

We are looking for a Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Director who thrives at the intersection of cloud technology finance and business strategy. This role is a hands-on role with potential to grow into a people and project management role - your initial impact will come through analysis influence and execution.

You will be the key driver of how we understand optimize and act on our AWS cloud spend. Your ability to translate data into insights and insights into measurable savings will directly shape our ability to scale efficiently. Youll partner with engineering finance product and executive teams to make cloud economics a strategic advantage for the organization.

What Youll Do

• Analyze and Optimize AWS Spend
• Own detailed cost and usage analysis including Reserved Instance and Savings Plan utilization anomaly detection and spend forecasting.
• Identify trends and opportunities for cost reduction without compromising performance or business outcomes.
• Drive Savings Execution
• Move beyond analysisbuild action plans secure alignment and follow through on execution of savings initiatives.
• Partner with engineering teams to right-size workloads modernize architectures and shift spend patterns.
• Build Organizational Awareness
• Create clear reporting dashboards and narratives that explain cloud economics risks opportunities and decision points to stakeholders from engineers to executives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership ensuring decisions around cloud growth are data driven.
• Deliver monthly FinOps reports to stakeholders highlighting variances trends and savings opportunities.

• Enable a FinOps Culture
• Champion cost accountability across teams by embedding FinOps practices into engineering roadmaps and financial planning cycles.
• Educate teams on AWS billing constructs optimization levers and trade-offs.

What Were Looking For

• Proven Expertise: 7 years in cloud financial operations cloud cost optimization or related disciplines with deep AWS knowledge; 12 years of experience in IT or Finance.
• Builder Mindset: Demonstrated ability to create a high functioning FinOps practice from the ground up.
• Analytical Rigor: Advanced ability to mine large datasets (using tools like CloudHealth CloudAbility AWS Cost Explorer Athena/QuickSight Tableau or similar tools) and surface meaningful insights.
• Execution Mindset: Not just identifying opportunities but successfully executing them in collaboration with engineering operations and finance.
• Stakeholder Savvy: Comfortable working with developers finance analysts and C-level leaders alikeable to tailor the message to the audience.
• Business Acumen: Significant experience with cloud cost forecasting chargeback/showback models and cloud unit economics. Good understanding of how cloud economics tie to margins product pricing and long-term strategy.
• People and Project leadership: Have a proven track record of managing people building relationships and leading complex FinOps initiatives.
• Preferred Qualifications: FinOps Certified Professional or relevant AWS certifications preferred; MBA or advanced degree in Finance/Technology is a plus.

Why Join Us

• Youll be the go-to expert for cloud financial stewardship in a growing fast paced organization.
• Youll shape how the company thinks about scale efficiency and profitability in the cloud era.
• Youll work alongside senior leaders who value data transparency and action.

This is not a role where youll be maintaining reports in isolation. Its a role where your analysis will directly influence strategic decisions and your execution will be visible across the company.

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today were proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster reduce costs and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics delivering actionable insight right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships and technology should make those relationships stronger. Thats why at Vertafore its our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers becoming better every day and delivering results you can see we provide the level oftrustandsecuritythat insurance is all about.

Bias to Action: Were united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.

Win Together: We work together as one team showing empathy and respect along the way.

Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.

Say It Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.

Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.

We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

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