Hiring: VP, Head of FinOps Company: Jefferies Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:42:52 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Capital Markets, Machine Learning, Program Management About the job Experience: •Significant experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, technology finance, cost management, infrastructure economics, or a related analytical role within a complex organization. •Demonstrated experience building cost transparency, dashboards, forecasts, allocation models, variance analysis, and optimization recommendations for consumption-based technology services. •In-depth knowledge of cloud and technology cost drivers, pricing constructs, usage telemetry, budgeting, forecasting, and vendor economics. •Demonstrated capacity to analyze complex datasets and translate findings into actionable decisions, trade-offs, and executive-ready narratives. •High attention to detail, strong control mindset, commercial judgment, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Required Skills: •The Enterprise AI FinOps Lead will establish financial transparency, cost governance, and optimization across Jefferies’ Enterprise AI Program. The role will create a trusted view of AI spend across model and token consumption, cloud and compute, infrastructure, platforms, licenses, partnerships, and usage-based services. •This individual will define financial guardrails, identify cost and usage anomalies, support forecasting and allocation, and provide clear recommendations that balance cost, performance, risk, and business value. •AI FinOps Strategy & Operating Model •Define and implement the FinOps operating model for the Enterprise AI Program, including scope, governance, decision rights, controls, service levels, and reporting cadences. •Establish a common taxonomy and ownership model for AI costs across models, tokens, cloud, compute, infrastructure, platforms, vendors, users, applications, divisions, and cost centers. •Partner with Technology Finance and the AI PMO to embed cost discipline into use-case design, architecture, vendor selection, budgeting, forecasting, and value-realization processes. •Own the authoritative view of AI spend, commitments, consumption, forecasts, allocations, and realized optimization opportunities. •Design dashboards that provide visibility by model, provider, application, use case, user, team, division, environment, and cost category where data is available. Qualifications: •Operational familiarity with FinOps Foundation principles, cloud cost-management practices, and showback or chargeback methodologies. •Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $175,000 - $200,000. •Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments. Compensation: •$175,000 - $200,000 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!