Sr. FinOps Manager (Cloud & AWS)

Job description

$120000 - $160000 / year

10/13/2015

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution 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.



JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Manager who thrives at the intersection of cloud technology, finance, and business strategy.

This is a hands-on role, not a people-management role—your 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.

You’ll partner with engineering, operations, finance, product, and executive teams to make cloud economics a strategic advantage for the organization.

Core Duties and Responsibilities:

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 analysis—build 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.



Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:


+ Analytical Rigor: Advanced ability to mine large datasets (Athena, Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, 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 alike—able to tailor the message to the audience.

+ Business Acumen: Understanding of how cloud economics tie to margins, product pricing, and long-term strategy.

+ Visualizations: Ability to create effective visualizations to better communicate with partners and stakeholders.


Qualifications:

· A bachelor's degree in business, accounting, finance, mathematics, economics, computer science or a related field and five years of relevant professional experience.



· 5+ years in cloud financial operations, cloud cost optimization, or related disciplines, with deep AWS knowledge.

· Proven track record of Cloud financial excellence.

· Project management certification, experience and/or background.



Additional Requirements and Details:

· Travel required up to 10% of the time.

· Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.



· Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.



· Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

· Frequent sitting and/or standing.



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, we’re 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.

That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s 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 of trust and security that insurance is all about.

· Bias to Action: We're 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.

Is this role not an exact fit for you?

Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

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.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job.

They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions.

In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.



Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.

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