Senior FinOps Manager

Location: Worldwide (Remote/Hybrid) Reports to: TBD

Senior FinOps Manager

About CINC Systems

CINC Systems is the leading provider of accounting and management software for the community association management industry. Our platform supports tens of thousands of associations and millions of homes in a highly reliable, multi-tenant SaaS environment.

As we scale our platform and expand our use of cloud-native and AI-enabled capabilities, disciplined financial stewardship of our technology spend becomes a strategic advantage. The Senior FinOps Manager plays a critical role in ensuring that growth, innovation, and profitability reinforce one another.

About the Role

· The Senior FinOps Manager is responsible for establishing and leading a mature FinOps function at CINC. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, SaaS economics, and financial management, and requires both deep technical understanding and strong financial acumen.

· This is a hands-on leadership role. You will work directly with Finance, Platform Engineering, Product Engineering, AI, Product Management, and the organization as a whole to continuously improve unit economics, optimize cloud and vendor spend, and embed cost-awareness into how software is designed, built, and operated.

Key Responsibilities

· Establish and lead a company-wide FinOps capability spanning AWS infrastructure, SaaS vendors, and AI-related spend

· Partner closely with Finance to align cloud and SaaS costs with forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting

· Work hands-on with Platform and Engineering teams to identify cost drivers, inefficiencies, and optimization opportunities

· Define and track unit economics such as cost per tenant, cost per transaction, cost per user, and cost per AI interaction

· Build transparent cost allocation and chargeback or showback models aligned to product lines and teams

· Drive continuous optimization across compute, storage, data transfer, managed services, and third-party SaaS tools

· Support architectural and design decisions with cost modeling and trade-off analysis

· Establish governance for cloud and SaaS purchasing, renewals, and usage without slowing delivery

· Create dashboards, reporting, and narratives that translate technical spend into business insight

· Educate teams on cost-aware design and operational practices, embedding FinOps thinking into daily decision-making

· Support AI-native systems by managing model usage costs, rate limits, and cost-performance trade-offs

Qualifications

Experience and Expertise

· 8+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, technical finance, or related roles

· Deep hands-on experience with AWS cost management, including pricing models, reservations, savings plans, and usage optimization

· Strong understanding of SaaS business models and unit economics

· Experience partnering directly with engineering and platform teams on cost optimization initiatives

· Ability to model, forecast, and analyze complex cost structures tied to technical systems

· Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, and data-intensive workloads

· Experience managing vendor relationships, contracts, and renewals with a cost-performance mindset

Leadership and Collaboration

· Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Finance, Engineering, Product, and Leadership

· Highly structured thinker who can reason clearly about trade-offs and priorities

· Excellent communicator capable of translating technical cost drivers into business language

· Comfortable influencing without authority and driving adoption of new practices

· Hands-on orientation with a bias toward action and measurable outcomes

Mindset and Values

· Builder mindset focused on systems, not spreadsheets alone

· Belief that cost efficiency is a product and architectural concern, not just a finance function

· Learning-first attitude, staying current with cloud pricing models, SaaS trends, and AI cost dynamics

· Pragmatic, data-driven, and calm under pressure

· Customer-aware, understanding that cost efficiency ultimately enables better pricing and value

What Success Looks Like

· Clear visibility into cloud and SaaS costs across product lines and teams

· Measurable improvements in unit economics and cost efficiency over time

· Engineering and product teams make informed trade-offs with cost as a first-class input

· Cloud and SaaS spend scales predictably with business growth

· The FinOps function is trusted, embedded, and influential across the organization

CINC is an Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.