Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Spend Manager, Mimecast
$132-198k
Office located in Lexington, MA
HR management & advanced email security
Job no longer available
HR management & advanced email security
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$132-198k
Office located in Lexington, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To stop bad things from happening to good organisations.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated expertise in FP&A, cost and financial analysis, or FinOps, with the proficiency and autonomy to own complex infrastructure spend in a SaaS or cloud-native technology environment
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure cost drivers and pricing models across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, with the ability to analyze large, complex datasets and translate findings into actionable recommendations
- Excellent communication and business-partnership skills, including the ability to turn technical cost drivers into clear financial narratives for non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with FinOps tooling such as CloudHealth, Cloudability, Kubecost, or native cloud cost-management tools is preferred
- SQL proficiency and hands-on experience with Snowflake or a similar data platform is preferred
- Experience operating in a PE-backed or high-growth environment with an emphasis on EBITDA-focused cost management is preferred
- A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- FinOps Certified Practitioner certification, or willingness to obtain it, is preferred
What the job involves
- Product & Engineering Finance is looking for a Sr Infrastructure & Cloud Spend Manager to own end-to-end financial visibility and accountability for cloud and infrastructure spend
- You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Procurement to strengthen forecasting discipline, drive cost optimization, and inform strategic decisions
- Cloud and infrastructure spend represents one of Mimecast’s most significant and fastest-growing cost lines
- This is a highly visible individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Product Finance & Corporate Development and based in our Lexington, MA office (hybrid onsite schedule)
- You’ll have the opportunity to build scalable infrastructure cost-management capabilities in a PE-backed environment focused on growth and margin performance
- Serve as the primary Finance owner for cloud and infrastructure spend—including AWS, Azure, GCP, data centers, and colocation—across the business
- Build and maintain a comprehensive cost taxonomy that maps spend to products, teams, and business units, establishing a clear reporting baseline within your first 90 days
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting for cloud and infrastructure spend, connecting usage trends with the product roadmap, customer growth, and Engineering capacity plans
- Support annual budgeting and long-range planning for infrastructure cost lines, delivering clear and actionable variance analysis against budgets and forecasts
- Identify, quantify, and drive cost-optimization opportunities, including reserved instances, savings plans, rightsizing, and architecture changes, in partnership with Engineering
- Evaluate vendor contracts and commitments and support negotiations with data-driven cost and usage analysis
- Champion FinOps best practices and tooling while building dashboards and self-service analytics that provide Finance, Engineering, and executive leaders with visibility into cloud spend and unit economics
- Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering leadership on the financial implications of architecture and infrastructure decisions, presenting findings and recommendations to senior Finance and business leaders
- Develop a rolling infrastructure spend forecast adopted by Engineering and Finance leadership within six months, and drive measurable cost savings and a mature FinOps reporting cadence within the first year
- Contribute to the broader Product & Engineering Finance team’s goals around cost discipline and EBITDA impact
Our take
Mimecast’s next-gen cloud-based security, archiving, and continuity services provide comprehensive risk management in a fully integrated solution, protecting over 40,000 customers worldwide and blocking 162+ million threats. With its adaptable platform, Mimecast focuses on developing capabilities to meet increasing risks and forming strategic partnerships.
Following its acquisition by Permira, Mimecast has expanded globally, reaching more countries.. Recently, Mimecast acquired Elevate Security, enhancing its offerings with insights into human behaviours and risks. Elevate Security's platform flags high-risk individuals with a precision risk scoring algorithm, complementing Mimecast’s Awareness Training for targeted intervention and training.
Since 2003, Mimecast has empowered customers to mitigate risks and manage complexities in a threat landscape driven by cyberattacks and human error. Mimecast’s advanced solutions in threat detection, brand protection, and data retention enable organisations to work protected.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2012
$62m
SERIES C
Jan 2010
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.7m
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Marc van Zadelhoff
(CEO)Prior to joining Mimecast in 2024, Marc was the CEO of Devo. They also spent nearly 12 years at IBM in various roles, including General Manager of IBM Security (Business Unit CEO).
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