Senior Consultant, FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization

TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice Team Overview he GTDA FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization team sits at the intersection of technology, business, and finance. The team partners across Cloud Engineering, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Finance, and business leadership to improve cost transparency, capacity planning, optimization accountability, and investment value realization. Its mission is to build strategy ,trusted reporting, governance standards, and decision-ready insights that help TransUnion manage cloud infrastructure & AI spend more effectively while enabling sustainable technology growth.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week. Role Overview And Core Responsibilities The Senior Consultant, FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization is a senior individual contributor role responsible for advancing TransUnion’s cloud and AI economics, infrastructure cost transparency, capacity planning, and value realization capabilitiesCore Responsibilities are the main areas of ownership for the role. For this role, I’d summarize them as:Cloud /AI infrastructure Cost Reporting: Own trusted reporting for cloud, AI, and on-prem infrastructure spend across leadership levels. Capacity Planning & Utilization Analysis: Consolidate demand signals, analyze usage trends, and support forward-looking capacity decisions. Optimization Pipeline & Value Realization: Manage cost optimization opportunities from identification through Finance-validated realization. FinOps Governance & Standards: Build governance processes, playbooks, RACIs, reporting standards, and escalation models. Federated FinOps Enablement: Support embedded FinOps leaders with training, data packages, benchmarks, and consistent operating practices. Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with engineering, finance, and business stakeholders to drive decisions, accountability, and cost ownership. Required Knowledge And Experiences Experience in cloud financial management, infrastructure capacity planning, IT finance, enterprise reporting, or a closely related analytical discipline. Advanced understanding of cloud and business capacity planning, with a strong track record in performance analysis and executive-level reporting. Advanced knowledge of public cloud platforms — GCP and/or AWS — including savings plans, committed-use discounts, reservations, tagging strategies, and resource lifecycle management. Proficiency in Google BigQuery for querying, modeling, and analyzing cloud cost and usage datasets at scale. Deep, hands-on understanding of enterprise infrastructure including server, storage, network, virtualization (VMware), database, middleware, and common operating systems.