FinOps Senior Manager

Cox Communications • Atlanta, GA

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

Cox Automotive is expanding our Financial Operations (FinOps) capability to accelerate business value from our cloud and SaaS investments. In this role, you’ll lead cross ‑ functional initiatives that bring financial transparency, accountability, and continuous optimization to our cloud platforms and key SaaS tools. You’ll partner with Technology, Product, Finance, and Accounting to operate the Cloud Business Office’s chargeback processes, designed to promote success for our teams operating in the cloud. This role requires strong technical experience in Cloud Operations as well as FinOps experience specifically for Cloud. Its an individual contributor position. What You’ll Do Own the FinOps process : establish governance, KPIs, and cadences that make cost and usage data visible and actionable across teams. Lean on your cloud cost model expertise to drive cost efficiency across provisioned and serverless compute, network egress/ingress, storage tiers and lifecycle management, database configuration, logging methodology and other cost sources. This position will begin as an individual contributor , focused on delivering high-impact results through strategic execution and cross-functional collaboration. However, as the scope of the role expands, there is a strong potential for this position to evolve into a team leadership role , managing a small group of direct reports. We are seeking candidates who not only excel in independent execution but also demonstrate leadership capabilities , including mentoring, stakeholder engagement, and strategic thinking. Ideal candidates will have the experience or aptitude to lead teams , influence outcomes, and contribute to organizational growth. Provide context to products, portfolios and business units on how their cloud service consumption impacts their chargeback/showback . Dive deep into compute, network, storage, database, logging/monitoring, backup, and other services deployed by the consuming unit and discuss alternatives solutions. Guide vendor strategy with Sourcing/Procurement—support renewals and commitments with consumption forecasts and optimization roadmaps. Enable the enterprise on cost ‑ aware operations —coach teams on engineering, budget guardrails, and FinOps best practices; contribute to playbooks and brown ‑ bag sessions. Deliver executive ‑ ready communications —crisp summaries of trends, drivers, savings, and risks for senior leaders. Who You Are A FinOps leader who blends financial acumen with technical fluency —equally comfortable in a GL conversation or a cloud design review. A collaborator who builds trust with Engineering, Finance, and Accounting, who can simplify complex cost topics for broad audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years’ experience in a related field; or 12 years’ experience in a related field.
• 3+ years experience in Cloud Economics or FinOps, focused on public cloud and data platform cost management (AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS platforms).
• Hands-on experience explaining to users how their choice of cloud services (compute, network, storage, database) impacts their chargeback/showback results.
• Proficiency with cost tooling and telemetry (e.g., CloudZero, CloudHealth, Cloudability, cloud provider native tools.).
• Strong presentation skills with a track record of influencing decisions through clear narratives and metrics.
• Applicants must live within a commutable distance to the office or be willing to relocate
• Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.

Nice To Haves

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar.
• Familiarity with product ‑ centric unit economics and with guiding multi ‑ year vendor commitment strategies.

Responsibilities

• Own the FinOps process : establish governance, KPIs, and cadences that make cost and usage data visible and actionable across teams.
• Lean on your cloud cost model expertise to drive cost efficiency across provisioned and serverless compute, network egress/ingress, storage tiers and lifecycle management, database configuration, logging methodology and other cost sources.
• Provide context to products, portfolios and business units on how their cloud service consumption impacts their chargeback/showback .
• Dive deep into compute, network, storage, database, logging/monitoring, backup, and other services deployed by the consuming unit and discuss alternatives solutions.
• Guide vendor strategy with Sourcing/Procurement—support renewals and commitments with consumption forecasts and optimization roadmaps.
• Enable the enterprise on cost ‑ aware operations —coach teams on engineering, budget guardrails, and FinOps best practices; contribute to playbooks and brown ‑ bag sessions.
• Deliver executive ‑ ready communications —crisp summaries of trends, drivers, savings, and risks for senior leaders.

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level