FinOps Consultant (m/w/d)

at  Liquid Reply GmbH

Are you ready to make a tangible impact on the future of cloud finance and DevOps?
At Liquid Reply, we’re looking for passionate FinOps Consultants who want to empower enterprise leaders to manage cloud spend effectively and leverage cloud resources to their fullest potential. As a trusted advisor, you’ll bridge the gap between Business, Finance, and IT, driving strategic change from within.
FinOps is the combination of DevOps and Finance. Together with our clients, we implement the FinOps Framework; starting with a central FinOps Team that drives the engagement within the client’s organization. Together with other stakeholders, such as DevOps Teams, IT Controlling, or Product Owners, we identify and implement measures to reduce cloud costs and maximize the usage of cloud resources, which maximizes the business value of the cloud, measuring the success of the implementation journey through various metrics.

Tasks

• Actively support FinOps projects together with your colleagues to make our customers’ cloud usage more efficient and sustainable.
• Create transparency through cloud-native or 3rd party tools for cost allocation or optimization potential.
• Analyze the client’s cloud environments to highlight optimization potential for all involved cloud services in IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS.
• Use your communication skills to interact with various stakeholders from the platform, product, and application teams.
• Develop FinOps blueprints and share your knowledge with colleagues.
• Prepare and execute FinOps trainings, conference talks, and create blog posts.
• Push FinOps topic development within Reply and with the FinOps Foundation.
• Work on extending the offering with new opportunities, such as FinOps for sustainability or Technology Business Management.

Requirements

• Successfully completed university studies in Data Analytics, Finance, Business Administration, IT Management, or similar.
• First experience with data analysis and data visualization tools (e.g., BigQuery, PowerBI, Tableau).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on financial data interpretation and insight generation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey complex financial concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in agile teams and familiarity with Scrum or Kanban frameworks.
• Strong customer orientation, communication skills, and self-initiative.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure) or FinOps Practitioner desirable.
• Familiarity with cloud cost management tools (e.g., Cloudability, infracost, kubecost) is a plus.
• Intrinsic motivation to drive sustainable and efficient cloud solutions.
• Proficiency in English and German with a willingness to travel occasionally.

Benefits
In addition to an attractive salary, we support your professional development during your daily work as well as through unique training opportunities. As an inventive, diverse, and international team, we share our knowledge continuously and work together. This will help you to develop yourself, build new knowledge and skills, grow your network, and position yourself as an expert. If you share our passion for personal growth, continuous learning, and a warm and supportive team, become part of Liquid Reply!
If you’re ready to take on the challenges of aligning interests across departments, creating sustainable FinOps practices, and being a catalyst for transformation, we’d love to hear from you.
Are you ready

• Actively support FinOps projects together with your colleagues to make our customers’ cloud usage more efficient and sustainable.
• Create transparency through cloud-native or 3rd party tools for cost allocation or optimization potential.
• Analyze the client’s cloud environments to highlight optimization potential for all involved cloud services in IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS.
• Use your communication skills to interact with various stakeholders from the platform, product, and application teams.
• Develop FinOps blueprints and share your knowledge with colleagues.
• Prepare and execute FinOps trainings, conference talks, and create blog posts.
• Push FinOps topic development within Reply and with the FinOps Foundation.
• Work on extending the offering with new opportunities, such as FinOps for sustainability or Technology Business Management