AI FinOps Performance & Value Realization Lead

Buffalo, NY
Full-time
$120,000.00–$150,000.00
Posted Nov 13, 2026

Skills

Accounting
Microsoft Azure
Power BI

Job description

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

Job Title :

AI FinOps Performance & Value Realization Lead

Reporting To:

Executive, Digital Enablement

Work Schedule:

Onsite – Buffalo, NY

Moog’s AI Enablement Center of Expertise is looking for an AI FinOps Performance & Value Realization Lead!

As the AI FinOps Performance & Value Realization Lead, you will establish the financial transparency, performance measurement, and value realization capabilities required to manage the enterprise AI portfolio effectively. You will create visibility into AI spend, consumption, adoption, utilization, and solution-level performance and connect those measures to business outcomes. You will be responsible for developing the frameworks, KPIs, dashboards, forecasts, and insights necessary to understand whether AI investments are delivering expected value and to inform decisions regarding optimization, prioritization, scaling, and future investment. You will serve as a critical link between AI investments and measurable business outcomes, bringing together financial, operational, adoption, and solution-performance data into a consistent enterprise view.

This role requires an onsite work schedule, at our Corporate Headquarters in East Aurora, NY.

To qualify for the AI FinOps Performance & Value Realization Lead role, here is what we would expect you to bring to Moog…

•Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

•Over five (5) years’ experience in technology finance, FinOps, FP&A, performance management, analytics, product operations, portfolio management, or value realization.

•Over two (2) years’ experience developing business cases, forecasts, ROI models, benefit measures, KPIs, dashboards, or investment analyses, supporting cloud, data, AI, digital platform, or consumption-based technology environments.

•Must live local to the Buffalo, NY area to work onsite, or willing to relocate. A remote work schedule with travel is not possible for this position.

Preference will be given to candidates who have:

•Experience with Microsoft Azure cost structures, AI/token economics, usage-based pricing, Power BI or equivalent analytics platforms, automated reporting, and measuring value from emerging-technology investments.

As the AI FinOps Performance & Value Realization Lead, you will…

•Establish enterprise visibility into AI spend and consumption, including tokens, licensing, infrastructure, platforms, and solution-level costs.

•Develop financial forecasts, reporting, and cost insights to inform AI investment, scaling, optimization, and prioritization decisions.

•Define a consistent value-realization framework that connects AI investments and consumption to measurable business outcomes and ROI.

•Partner with AI and business stakeholders to establish value expectations and track realized outcomes, including productivity, efficiency, adoption, and utilization.

•Establish KPIs and measurement standards for AI solution effectiveness, adoption, utilization, quality, performance, cost, and value.

•Develop automated dashboards and scorecards that provide enterprise and capability-level visibility into financial performance, adoption, utilization, and value realization.

•Monitor performance and value trends to identify gaps and opportunities for optimization, adoption, scaling, reevaluation, or intervention.

•Provide data-driven portfolio insights that help leaders determine which AI capabilities to accelerate, optimize, scale, reconsider, or retire.

How we care for you:

•Financial Rewards: great compensation package, bonus opportunities, matching 401k, and the ability to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan (select locations), Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts

•Work/Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, holidays and parental leave program.

•Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.

•Professional Skills Development: Tuition Assistance, mentorship and coaching opportunities, leadership development and other personal growth programs

•Culture: Warm, respectful, family-like environment driven by our 12 core values. Multiple Employee Resource Groups led by our employees, open and welcoming to all.

Salary Range Transparency:

Buffalo, NY $120,000.00–$150,000.00 Annually

Salary Range Disclaimer

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Moog salary range for this position in the given work location. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range(s) listed is just one component of Moog's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, employee stock purchase plan, an open paid time off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

This position requires access to U.S. export-controlled information.

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