IT Manager FinOps

AutoZone is seeking an IT Manager of FinOps to lead and mature our cloud financial management practice. This role will manage a team focused on cost transparency, budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, optimization, and automation to maximize the business value of our cloud investments. The manager will partner with Finance, Engineering, Architecture, Product, and business stakeholders to strengthen financial accountability and support informed technology investment decisions, with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our primary cloud provider. This role will have direct reports and responsibility for team development and delivery of the FinOps roadmap.

Develops technical, financial, and leadership capabilities in team members through coaching, mentoring, clear priorities, and professional development.

Leads the FinOps strategy and roadmap, prioritizing cost transparency, financial accountability, optimization, and automation in alignment with business and IT objectives.

Partners with Finance and technology leaders to manage cloud budgets, forecasts, estimates, and actual spend; explains variances and coordinates budget adjustments and corrective actions.

Develops trusted relationships with Finance, Engineering, Architecture, Product, and business leaders to establish shared ownership of technology consumption, costs, and business value.

Works with Procurement, Finance, cloud providers, and vendor partners to support commercial decisions, commitment planning, and effective utilization of purchased cloud capacity and services.

Oversees cost allocation, labeling standards, shared cost distribution, and showback or chargeback reporting so technology spend is attributed to the appropriate applications, teams, and business owners.

Leads delivery of Looker dashboards and reporting, built on BigQuery billing data, that communicate budgets, forecasts, actuals, optimization opportunities, savings, and unit economics to technical and executive audiences.

Manages FinOps engineering and reporting initiatives using Agile practices and applicable Project Management Office (PMO) guidelines; ensures clear requirements, documentation, and delivery coordination.

Drives cloud cost optimization with application and platform teams; prioritizes recommendations, establishes action owners, tracks implementation, and validates realized savings and cost avoidance with Finance.

Oversees FinOps tooling, billing data pipelines, and automation built on GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow,

Cloud Run jobs, and Cloud Run functions, supporting cost allocation, forecasting, budget notifications, anomaly detection, and actionable optimization recommendations.

Establishes cost controls and escalation processes for unexpected spend; partners with Cloud Operations and application teams to address anomalies while balancing cost, reliability, performance, and security.

Promotes a FinOps culture through training, stakeholder engagement, and regular business reviews; measures practice maturity and continuously improves processes, data quality, and financial insights

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field.

5-10 years of relevant experience in IT, cloud engineering, technology financial management, or related disciplines.

Strong technical and financial acumen, with the ability to connect technology consumption and engineering decisions to business outcomes.

Experience with cloud budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost reporting, and financial planning in partnership with Finance and business stakeholders.

Experience with cost allocation, resource labeling, shared cost distribution, and showback or chargeback processes.

Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in a technology management position, with demonstrated responsibility for team development, prioritization, and delivery.

Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and analytical skills, including the ability to explain complex technical and financial concepts to engineering teams and senior leaders.

Experience managing cross-functional initiatives using Agile methodologies and collaborating across Finance,

Engineering, Architecture, Product, and business teams.

Ability to influence stakeholders, promote financial accountability, and drive adoption of FinOps practices through training and change management.

Experience in cloud cost optimization or a related FinOps role, including translating recommendations into measurable actions and tracking financial outcomes.

Experience with a major public cloud provider; Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience preferred, particularly with BigQuery, Looker, Dataflow, Cloud Run jobs, and Cloud Run functions, with AWS or Azure experience also considered.

Experience with cloud billing data in BigQuery, reporting and data visualization in Looker, and cost anomaly investigation; ability to assess data quality and reporting accuracy.