Jefferies
VP, Head of FinOps
New York, NY, United States · Vp · Full-time
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About the role
- The role requires strong financial judgment, technical curiosity, analytical rigor, and the ability to translate complex consumption data into practical decisions and measurable value.
- Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $175,000 - $200,000.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement the FinOps operating model for the Enterprise AI Program, including scope, governance, decision rights, controls, service levels, and reporting cadences.
- Partner with Technology Finance and the AI PMO to embed cost discipline into use-case design, architecture, vendor selection, budgeting, forecasting, and value-realization processes.
- Own the authoritative view of AI spend, commitments, consumption, forecasts, allocations, and realized optimization opportunities.
- Design dashboards that provide visibility by model, provider, application, use case, user, team, division, environment, and cost category where data is available.
- Partner with platform, engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to implement proportionate controls and track corrective actions to completion.
- Support transparent showback, chargeback, or allocation approaches so consuming teams understand and take ownership of the costs they generate.
- Maintain a current commercial and cost view of approved models, providers, platforms, and service options available to the Enterprise AI Program.
- Partner with technical teams to evaluate model, context, compute, hosting, and service-tier choices against cost, performance, quality, control, resilience, and business value.
- Develop bottom-up forecasts for AI consumption and program costs using adoption, user, workload, model, token, compute, and pricing assumptions.
- Partner with program and business owners to translate demand plans into financial forecasts and identify potential funding or capacity constraints.
Requirements
- Produce recurring executive-ready analysis of actuals versus budget and forecast, including run-rate changes, anomalies, concentration risks, emerging cost drivers, and required actions.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with FinOps Foundation principles, cloud cost-management practices, and showback or chargeback methodologies.
- Experience within investment banking, capital markets, regulated financial services, or major cloud, AI, observability, or business-intelligence tooling environments.
Compensation
- Support annual planning, periodic forecasting, accruals, variance explanations, and financial inputs to business cases and funding gates.
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