Cloud FinOps Finance Lead

🕒 April 8

🏢🏡 Chicago – Hybrid

💵 $114.7k - $194.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Northern Trust

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1889

💸 Finance

🏦 Banking

🏢 Enterprise

Finance • Banking • Enterprise

Northern Trust is a trusted financial advisor known for its commitment to service, expertise, and integrity. The company provides financial services to a diverse range of clients including family offices, financial advisors, corporations, and nonprofits. With a focus on integrated trading solutions and insights into economic challenges, Northern Trust offers a comprehensive range of services tailored to the needs of various financial entities. It also emphasizes research and client engagement to help shape economies and optimize fund operations. Founded in 1889, Northern Trust continues to build on its reputation as a leader in the finance industry.

📋 Description

• Lead monthly/quarterly cloud forecasting, variance analysis, and long‑range planning across multiple cloud providers • Maintain and enhance cloud cost models, demand forecasting methodologies, and productivity assumptions • Build and maintain frameworks for cloud cost governance, including spend controls, tagging hygiene, and savings accountability • Identify cost‑optimization opportunities such as reserved instances, rightsizing, storage optimization, and platform consolidation • Evaluate cloud migration proposals and prepare financial business cases • Create executive‑level reporting on cloud KPIs, consumption trends, efficiency metrics, and spend drivers • Partner with Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Product teams to understand upcoming migrations, platform requirements, and financial implications.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or related field • 10-15+ years of experience in FP&A, Technology Finance, or related financial leadership roles • CPA, CFA, MBA, or FinOps Certification • Strong understanding of cloud economics (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, etc.) or a willingness to rapidly learn • Demonstrated ability to interpret complex technical concepts into financial outcomes • Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills • Experience interacting with senior leaders and influencing cross-functional decision-making.

🏖️ Benefits

• retirement benefits (401k and pension) • health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision) • spending accounts and disability • paid time off • parental and caregiver leave • life & accident insurance • other voluntary and well-being benefits • discretionary bonus program