Senior Specialist, Cloud & AI Financial Insights and Commercial Strategy

Job Description Summary

Leads the strategic vision and roadmap for a technical product or products within a FinOps domain, demonstrating a deep understanding of the product(s). Products may have enterprise-wide implications.

Position Summary

The Cloud Business Office (CBO) is seeking a highly analytical and strategically minded professional to serve as the Product Owner for Vanguard's Cloud & AI Insights FinOps platform.

This role is responsible for transforming cloud and AI consumption data into actionable business intelligence that supports executive decision making, financial transparency, optimization strategies, and commercial negotiations across the enterprise. The individual will own reporting products and insights that inform Cloud FinOps, chargeback, executive governance, strategic planning, and vendor negotiations.

The position serves as a critical bridge between cloud platforms, engineering teams, finance partners, procurement, and senior technology leadership by translating consumption trends into strategies that optimize investment value across hyper-scalers, SaaS and Generative AI vendors.

Success in this role requires a unique blend of analytics, cloud economics, financial acumen, stakeholder influence, and technical product ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership: Cloud & AI Insights

• Serve as Cloud Business Office (CBO) Product Owner for Vanguard's Cloud & AI Insights capabilities and reporting platforms.
• Define and evolve the strategy, roadmap, and priorities for enterprise cloud and AI financial reporting.
• Ensure reporting solutions deliver actionable insights that support optimization efforts across the business, SI product teams, finance, procurement, and executive stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement of reporting, analytics, forecasting, invoice reconciliation, and visualization capabilities.
• Partner with engineering and data teams to enhance cloud and AI data quality, governance, and accessibility.
• Deliver financial insights supporting: FinOps KPIs Chargeback and showback programs Cloud consumption trends Optimization opportunity identification Forecasting and budget planning Executive and governance reporting
• Develop and maintain specific IT Senior Staff reports for tracking strategic initiatives such as Next Gen Hosting, GenAI, and other enterprise transformation programs.

Generative AI Financial Intelligence

• Own reporting and insights for Generative AI consumption and financial management across the enterprise.  Partnering with CBO engineers to close gaps in consumptions based AI Spend.
• Develop analytics covering: Bedrock consumption and adoption trends Foundation model utilization Token consumption and growth patterns Unit cost trends and benchmarking Generative AI financial forecasting AI investment value realization
• Support executive decision making through clear and actionable reporting on AI spend, adoption, efficiency, and business impact.
• Partner with technology and business teams to improve transparency and accountability for AI-related investments.

Commercial & Contract Strategy

• Transform consumption insights into actionable recommendations that improve vendor negotiations and commercial outcomes such as AWS Enterprise Contract (EDP), Azure MAAC, and Anthropic Commercial Commitments. .
• Support contract strategy and negotiations across: AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Anthropic OpenAI Google Gemini Other cloud and AI providers
• Develop forecasting models and usage projections used to establish commitment strategies and investment plans.
• Identify opportunities to maximize value capture through pricing optimization, commitment planning, and consumption management.
• Provide analytical support for business cases, executive proposals, and strategic sourcing decisions.

Commitment & Financial Risk Management

• Establish and maintain visibility into contractual commitments and commercial obligations across cloud and AI providers.