Senior Director of FinOps
About the Role
The Senior Director of FinOps will establish and lead BNY’s Technology FinOps capability, promoting financial accountability and maximizing return on investment across a complex, multi-cloud, multi-vendor technology environment. Reporting jointly to the Engineering Hub Lead and the CFO, Engineering, this role will define the operating model, build the team, and embed cost-conscious decision-making across engineering, finance, procurement, and business functions. The initial focus will be cloud and AI cost management, expanding into data platform economics and, over time, software usage-based contracts. The role will own the FinOps lifecycle across visibility, allocation, optimization, and governance. This position is based in New York City.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute an enterprise FinOps strategy aligned with engineering, finance, and business objectives.
- Establish an operating model and roadmap for FinOps agents supporting autonomous workflows and agentic products.
- Build and lead the Technology FinOps team.




- Develop cost taxonomies, allocation rules, and metadata and tagging standards.
- Create transparent allocation models by business unit, product, application, environment, owner, and workload type.
- Enable showback, chargeback, forecasting, auditability, and unit economics through self-service AI assistants.
- Manage commitment-based spending and optimize provider coverage against utilization.
- Deploy anomaly detection, variance reporting, automated recommendations, and remediation workflows with human approval for higher-risk actions.
- Build forecasting models and connect unit economics to measurable business outcomes.
- Partner with Engineering Analytics to standardize spend data across provider feeds.
- Maintain an authoritative cost graph with data lineage and quality controls.
- Oversee cost data pipelines from ingestion through near-real-time reporting.
- Provide dashboards and conversational

📌 Senior Director, Technology FinOps (Lo Barnechea)
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