Financial Operations Lead - Cloud (AWS & Azure)
Vendavo
Accounting & Finance, Operations
Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Feb 25, 2026
Vendavo is seeking a Cloud Financial Operations Lead to drive multi-cloud financial governance across AWS and Azure environments. This role will own cloud cost visibility, forecasting, optimization, vendor negotiations, and customer chargeback enablement while operating as part of the Cloud Platform & Operations organization.
The role will serve as the FinOps governance authority, ensuring cost validation for onboarding, infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and production changes. This position is critical to enabling scalable 24x7 cloud operations while improving gross margin and financial discipline.
THE OPPORTUNITY
- Own and operate the FinOps governance model including spend validation and cost approval gates.
- Drive AWS and Azure cost visibility, reporting, and forecasting (monthly, quarterly, annual).
- Partner with Finance to align cloud budgets, forecasts, and actuals.
- Implement and mature a customer chargeback model across multi-cloud environments.
- Lead rightsizing initiatives for compute, storage, database, and networking resources.
- Optimize Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Azure Reservations strategies.
- Identify automation opportunities to reduce long-term operational costs.
- Collaborate with Professional Services, Support, Engineering, and Sales to validate cost impact during onboarding and releases.
- Lead vendor discussions and enterprise agreement optimizations with AWS and Microsoft.
- Publish executive dashboards tracking cost trends, savings, and unit economics.
- Year-over-year reduction in cloud spend (normalized by growth).
- Forecast accuracy within ±5%.
- Savings Plan / Reservation coverage ratio.
- Cost per tenant improvement trend.
- Percentage of cost-impacting changes reviewed before execution.
- Demonstrated cost savings from optimization initiatives.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
THE SKILL SET
- 6+ years of experience in Cloud Financial Management / FinOps.
- Strong expertise in AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, Savings Plans, and RI management.
- Experience with Azure Cost Management & Billing optimization.
- Proven experience in financial modeling and forecasting.
- Experience building dashboards (PowerBI, Tableau, or QuickSight).
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills in SaaS or enterprise environments.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner
- AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or above)
- Microsoft Azure Administrator or Architect Certification
Preferred Certifications
THE BENEFITS
- Professional growth and Development opportunities.
- Working within a team of friendly, skilled people where help is always within reach
- Flexible working hours
- 4 recharge days, where the entire company goes on a brief pause in all geographies for 1 day each quarter. This day can be spent in whatever way helps you recharge, to regain energy, and dive back into the next workday
- High-end laptop (Dell or Mac)
- Competitive pay and bonus
- 18 vacation days in a year in addition to 15 days Sick Leave/ Casual leave per calendar year.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time off per year
- Wedding gift and newborn gift allowance for employees.
- 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and one week of paid paternity leave.
- 12 wellness leaves for women employees
- Health Insurance of up to 7 lacs for self, spouse, 4 dependent children, and parents. 100% of the premium is paid by Vendavo and it covers the employee, spouse, children, and their parents.
- Group Term Insurance coverage up to three times of their Annual CTC . Dependents are not covered.
- Group Personal Accident coverage up to three times of Annual CTC. Dependents are not covered.
- Provident fund contributions
THE VENDAVO STORY
Vendavo partners with the world’s leading companies to accelerate growth and profitability, advance innovation, and build more prosperous communities. Our powerful, cloud-based, AI-powered pricing, selling, and prescribing solutions empower global manufacturers and distributors to manage, optimize, and digitize their end-to-end commercial processes. But we offer so much more than software. Our proven, repeatable process, and passionate, experienced people accelerate value and drive profitable, unrivaled business outcomes for our customers. We are passionate about helping our customers deliver the right products, at the right prices, at the right time, for the right people.
OUR SAAS PRODUCTS
Our B2B pricing and selling solutions include Vendavo Intelligent CPQ, Margin Bridge Analyzer, Profit Analyzer, Business Risk and Sales Alerts, Vendavo Sales Optimizer, Deal Price Optimizer, Vendavo Pricepoint, and Rebate & Channel Manager. You can learn more about our products here.
OUR FUNDING
We are backed by two of the top high-tech private equity firms in the world, have excellent financial health, and boast the top SaaS retention in our space.
OUR CULTURE & YOU
We collaborate with our customers unlike any others in our industry. Anchored in our values (Move with Integrity, Be Clear, Win as One, Solve for the Customer, Build What’s Next), we are growing, constantly innovating, and consistently driving sustainable outcomes for our clients and partners.
Unlocking opportunities for our customers would not be possible without our employees. When you are part of Vendavo, you’re part of a company that’s committed to your growth and invested in your career. Diversity, inclusion, and celebration of community are at our core, and we come together to learn from each other and honor our commitments.
OUR TEAM IS GROWING. YOU WILL TOO.