Mtb
Senior Strategic Initiatives Manager – Cloud & GenAI Financial Operations
Buffalo, NY · Senior
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About the role
- Establish and facilitate governance routines, executive reporting, and performance metrics related to cloud and AI spending, utilization, savings opportunities, and return on investment.
- Evaluate financial impacts of emerging technologies and strategic investments, including cloud migration programs, AI platform adoption, and enterprise modernization initiatives.
- Direct complex, critical, and highly visible projects for division.
Responsibilities
- Leads design, planning and implementation for time-sensitive, critical programs and/or projects.
- Establishes governance, reporting, forecasting, and performance management practices to support sustainable growth, efficient resource utilization, and measurable return on technology investments.
- Partner with Technology, Finance, Procurement, Architecture, and Engineering teams to identify opportunities for cost optimization, efficiency improvements, and investment prioritization.
- Drive adoption of financial accountability practices, including showback /chargeback models, cost allocation methodologies, unit cost metrics, and consumption transparency.
- Analyze complex operational, financial, and consumption data sets to provide actionable insights that support decision-making, risk management, and strategic planning.
- Consider stakeholder perspectives, help build consensus, address objections, help develop solutions, and drive action.
- Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
Requirements
- Experience leading or supporting Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps), Technology Business Management (TBM), IT Financial Management, or related technology cost management disciplines.
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and associated financial management and governance practices.
- Experience supporting Generative AI initiatives, including financial planning, usage monitoring, cost management, and value measurement.
- Familiarity with cloud cost management and FinOps tooling.
- Strong understanding of technology portfolio management, financial planning processes, and business value realization methodologies.
- Experience with SQL, programming and statistical software.
- Experience with financial, regulatory and/or process analysis, and technical writing.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Math, Accounting, Engineering, or Business Administration
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or related certifications preferred.
Compensation
- Exercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management and terminations.
Company info
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
Visa & Work Authorization
- applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, military status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic
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