What a FinOps consultant does
FinOps brings finance, IT and engineering together around one goal: spending right. A FinOps consultant provides the tooling and runs this practice. In practice:
- Making costs visible: tying every euro to an application and its owner, in a dashboard refreshed daily.
- Finding savings: reservations and savings plans, rightsizing, Stop/Start, logs, storage, data services, re-architecture of the most expensive services.
- Getting them applied with the teams, and measuring them on the bill.
- Setting up governance that makes FinOps by design, so waste doesn't come back.
When to hire a FinOps consultant
- The bill keeps rising without a clear explanation. At 5% a month, it grows by 80% in a year.
- Nobody owns the costs: no FinOps team, no owner per application.
- A deadline is coming: cloud migration, commitment renewal (MACC, EDP), next year's budget.
- AI is arriving, with per-token billing that is hard to predict.
- A cost incident just happened, and you want to avoid the next one.
What you should get in 30 and 90 days
| Horizon | Expected results |
|---|---|
| 30 days | Read-only access, cost mapping by application, top 10 services analyzed, first quick wins applied |
| 90 days | A quantified remediation plan across all services, savings measured on the bill, budget alerts and forecast in place |
| Beyond | Governance, FinOps scoring, standards and building blocks: FinOps by design |
Firm, independent or tool?
| Option | Strengths | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Large consulting firm | Capacity, international coverage | Cost, junior profiles, sometimes theoretical deliverables |
| Consultant or small specialist firm | Field expertise, single point of contact, flexibility | Limited capacity on very large scopes |
| Tool only | Fast visibility | Doesn't get any recommendation applied: someone has to drive it |
Questions to ask before choosing
- Are the announced savings measured on the bill, or estimated?
- What is the method, and how are recommendations built (real metrics, rules validated with IT)?
- Who applies the optimizations, and who carries the risk?
- What is the pricing model: on results, day rate, fixed price?
- What will remain after the engagement: dashboard, governance, autonomous teams?
How we work
Eight years of FinOps engagements, from SMEs to CAC 40 groups, over €20M in savings measured on the bill, a method co-built within the CRIP. Two offers: paid on results for SMEs, day-rate support for large enterprises. Details on the Offers page and in our approach.