FinOps Specialist, AI & Cloud

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005 Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders with a mission to connect the worlds underserved businesses to a rising global economy. Were a community with over 2500 colleagues all over the world working to serve customers and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflowsincluding everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management to providing working capital and business intelligencewe give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

We are looking for an AI & Cloud FinOps Specialist to join our FinOps team and help drive cost efficiency governance and visibility across both cloud and AI environments.
This role combines traditional FinOps (Cloud and SaaS) with emerging AI cost management practices. The ideal candidate comes from a FinOps or cloud cost management background with strong technical orientation and the ability to work closely with engineering teams.
Depending on experience and strengths the role will focus on either:

1. building and owning AI FinOps capabilities
   OR
2. driving execution across cloud FinOps and vendor management

This is a high-impact role with both execution and ownership opportunities working across engineering finance and procurement.

What youll do:

• Monitor analyze and optimize cloud SaaS and AI-related spend (AWS / GCP / Azure vendors LLMs)
• Create visibility into usage cost drivers and efficiency metrics
• Identify and drive optimization of inefficiencies (e.g. underutilization over-provisioning inefficient usage excess AI consumption)
• Work closely with engineering DevOps and data teams to translate usage into cost drivers and influence cost-aware architecture decisions
• Build or support dashboards tools and automation for cost visibility and monitoring
• Contribute to AI FinOps (governance automation agents) and/or Cloud/Vendor FinOps (vendor management budgeting forecasting)

Who you are:

• 2 years of experience in FinOps cloud cost management or SaaS cost governance
• Hands-on experience working with cloud billing data and cost analysis
• Practical experience with pricing models contracts and billing structures (cloud SaaS or AI); experience with AI tools and token-based pricing is an advantage
• Strong ability to work with engineering and technical stakeholder
• Ability to understand and challenge usage patterns and technical decisions
• Solid understanding of:
  • cloud environments (AWS / GCP / Azure)
  • resource usage and billing models
  • APIs and system usage patterns
  • how technical decisions impact cost
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear insights and actions
• Demonstrated ownership mindset and ability to drive initiatives end-to-end

Advantage:

• Familiarity with AI tools LLMs or token-based pricing models
• Experience with FinOps tools or SaaS management platforms
• Experience working in cross-functional environments (engineering finance procurement)
• Experience building processes dashboards or automation tools

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