Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

• Own end‑to‑end cloud financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Drive measurable, sustained cloud cost reductions through usage analysis, rightsizing, storage and logging optimization, and close collaboration with Cloud Operations and Engineering teams.
• Establish financial guardrails that balance cost efficiency, scalability, and platform reliability.

• Design and maintain business unit, cost‑center, and application‑level cost attribution models to support chargeback/showback and executive transparency.
• Define, mature, and automate FinOps processes, workflows, and tooling, embedding financial accountability into daily cloud operations and engineering practices.
• Ensure financial impact is consistently evaluated during solution design, architectural decisions, and platform changes.

• Build and deliver executive‑level dashboards, reports, and narratives that translate cloud spend into clear financial and operational insights.
• Partner with Finance and Executive Leadership to reconcile billing data, analyze trends, and provide timely insights aligned to business and operating cadence.
• Support data‑driven prioritization of cloud investments across products and platforms.

• Leverage Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform) and automation to integrate FinOps controls into cloud provisioning and enablement pipelines.
• Partner closely with Architecture, Platform, Security, Product, Enterprise Tools, and Managed Services providers to operationalize FinOps capabilities at scale.
• Continuously improve financial visibility, forecasting accuracy, and cost controls across the cloud ecosystem.

• Improved accuracy, transparency, and trust in cloud cost attribution and reporting
• Demonstrable and sustained cloud cost savings without negative impact to reliability, security, or delivery speed
• FinOps processes embedded into standard cloud provisioning and operational workflows
• Increased executive confidence in cloud financial data and investment decisions

• 8+ years of experience in cloud financial management, FinOps, cloud operations, or cloud architecture, ideally in a FinTech or highly regulated environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep hands‑on experience managing cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
• Strong knowledge of FinOps frameworks, cost optimization strategies, and financial governance models
• Experience building executive‑level dashboards and financial narratives using cloud billing data
• Proven ability to partner cross‑functionally with Engineering, Finance, Security, and senior leadership
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills

• FinOps Practitioner or Professional certification
• Experience implementing chargeback/showback models at enterprise scale
• Background in platform engineering or cloud architecture
• Familiarity with cloud cost management tools (native and third‑party)
• Experience working with managed services providers and large‑scale cloud environment

Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.