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About the Role

Manage key initiatives and large-scale projects, supporting strategic objectives, improving risk management, and ensuring efficiency and sustainability of core processes. Provides strategic leadership for Cloud and Generative AI Financial Operations (FinOps), driving cost transparency, optimizing technology investments, and maximizing business value.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cloud and Generative AI Financial Operations (FinOps) initiatives, including governance, budgeting, forecasting, consumption management, optimization, and value realization across cloud platforms and AI services.
• Develop and maintain financial management frameworks that provide visibility into cloud and AI costs, usage trends, financial performance, and business outcomes.
• Partner with Technology, Finance, Procurement, Architecture, and Engineering teams to identify opportunities for cost optimization, efficiency improvements, and investment prioritization.
• Establish and facilitate governance routines, executive reporting, and performance metrics related to cloud and AI spending, utilization, savings opportunities, and return on investment.
• Drive adoption of financial accountability practices, including showback/chargeback models, cost allocation methodologies, unit cost metrics, and consumption transparency.
• Evaluate financial impacts of emerging technologies and strategic investments, including cloud migration programs, AI platform adoption, and enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Analyze complex operational, financial, and consumption data sets to provide actionable insights that support decision-making, risk management, and strategic planning.
• Monitor industry trends and best practices related to Cloud FinOps, AI governance, and technology financial management to recommend and implement continuous improvements.
• Define scope and approach for Division/Department initiatives.
• Direct and monitor resources for complex, critical, and highly visible projects for the division.
• Provide analytical expertise to support critical Bank-wide or divisional initiatives.
• Consider stakeholder perspectives, build consensus, address objections, develop solutions, and drive action.
• Interact with senior management on a regular basis to obtain pertinent information.
• Serve as liaison between the department and other Bank personnel on various projects.
• Exercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management and terminations.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls.
• Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years’ relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 14 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 9 years’ relevant work experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ managerial experience

Skills

• Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps)
• Generative AI
• Technology Business Management (TBM)
• IT Financial Management
• Technology cost management
• Cloud cost optimization strategies
• Financial forecasting models
• Consumption reporting
• Technology investment business cases
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• Cloud cost management and FinOps tooling
• Technology portfolio management
• Financial planning processes
• Business value realization methodologies
• SQL
• Programming
• Statistical software
• Financial analysis
• Regulatory analysis
• Process analysis
• Technical writing

Location

• Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Managerial experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or related certifications preferred
• Six Sigma, Lean, Process Improvement, or project management-related education

Salary/Compensations

• $128,900.00 - $214,900.00 Annual (USD)

About the Company

• M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees.