FinOps Senior Consultant (m/w/d)- Deutschlandweit

FinOps Consultant

Principal level

Technology Transformation (Enterprise Technology) practice

About Us

Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You will be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300,000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

About Your Role

As a Principal FinOps Consultant within our Cloud & Infrastructure capability, you will lead and advise clients on establishing, scaling, and embedding cloud financial management and value optimisation practices. You will act as a senior advisor to technology, finance, and business leaders, ensuring cloud investment is transparent, governed, and aligned to business outcomes.

Operating at a principal level, you will define enterprise FinOps strategies, operating models, and optimisation roadmaps, working across cloud platforms, delivery teams, finance functions, and executive stakeholders. You will ensure FinOps is embedded as a sustainable capability, supporting financial accountability, engineering efficiency, and continuous optimisation across large-scale cloud estates.

You will play a key role in major cloud transformation programmes, influencing architecture and operating decisions through a cost, value, and business-outcome lens, while contributing to propositions, thought leadership, and the ongoing development of our Cloud Economics and FinOps offerings.

Key Responsibilities & Capabilities

• Define and lead enterprise FinOps strategies across public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud)
• Advise senior technology, finance, and business stakeholders on cloud cost governance and value optimisation
• Design and implement FinOps operating models, including chargeback/showback, budgeting, forecasting, and cost allocation
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to provide transparency into cloud spend, efficiency, and business value
• Lead optimisation initiatives including rightsizing, rate optimisation, commitment management, and workload efficiency
• Embed cost-aware practices into architecture, platform, and engineering design decisions
• Support large-scale cloud migrations and modernisation programmes from a financial and value perspective
• Contribute to proposals, client engagements, and offerings within the Cloud & Infrastructure capability

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Strong experience across cloud, financial management, technology consulting, or related disciplines
• Strong practical experience applying FinOps principles at enterprise scale
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and optimisation
• Experience operating across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage confidently with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred / Desirable Experience

• Experience of Commercial FinOps vendors/platforms
• FinOps Foundation certifications (Practitioner or Professional)
• Experience aligning cloud spend to business value and investment decision-making
• Familiarity with FinOps tooling ecosystems and native cloud cost management services
• Experience working within regulated or complex enterprise environments
• Experience with Technology Business Management (TBM) frameworks
• Remediation strategies, including the use of automation to prevent, detect, and correct cost inefficiencies and policy breaches

General Information

• Willingness and ability to travel across client sites within the EMEA region
• Fluent spoken and written German and English (additional languages advantageous depending on location)

Personal Attributes

• Highly analytical and structured problem-solver
• Able to translate complex financial and technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance
• Strong collaborator who thrives in multidisciplinary environments
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving and ambiguous transformation contexts
• Committed to high standards of quality, integrity, and professionalism
  

Given that this is just a short snapshot of the role we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the requirements listed above. We are looking for team members who strive to make an impact and are eager to learn. If this sounds like you and you feel you have the skills and experience required, then please apply now.

Benefits

Join our growing Cloud & Infrastructure capability within Technology Transformation Consulting and help organisations gain financial control and maximise value from their cloud investments.

Our team focuses on Cloud Transformation, FinOps and Cloud Economics, Platform Engineering, Monitoring & Observability, and Architecture Assurance. We work with CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, and senior leaders to ensure cloud investments are transparent, governed, and value-driven.

We operate at the intersection of strategy and execution—defining operating models, governance frameworks, and optimisation roadmaps while supporting delivery teams and leadership decision-making. You will contribute to high-impact cloud transformation programmes across EMEA.

About Infosys Consulting

Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology. We work with market-leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.

Our core values, IC-LIFE, form a common code that helps us move forward. IC-LIFE stands for Inclusion, Equity and Diversity, Client, Leadership, Integrity, Fairness, and Excellence.

We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, along with top training and development opportunities so that you can grow your career and achieve your personal ambitions. Curious to learn more? We’d love to hear from you. Apply today!