Understanding your cloud costs is one thing. Knowing what to do about them – in a way that captures real savings, creates durable accountability, and does not disrupt the engineering velocity that delivers business value – is another matter entirely.
Opactiv’s FinOps consulting service brings certified, experienced practitioners to work alongside your teams on the challenges that matter most. We are not generalists who have read the FinOps Foundation framework documentation. We are practitioners who have implemented FinOps programmes across organisations of varying scale, complexity, and cloud maturity – and we bring that experience directly to your engagement.
Our consulting engagements are structured around outcomes, not time. We begin by understanding where your organisation currently sits in its FinOps maturity: the visibility you have, the accountability structures in place, the processes that exist for cost review and action, and the cultural dynamics that either enable or inhibit financial ownership of cloud spend. From that baseline, we work with you to identify the highest-value opportunities and the practical path to capturing them.
- FinOps maturity assessment provides an honest, detailed picture of where your organisation stands across the FinOps Foundation’s capability framework – inform, optimise, and operate – with specific, prioritised recommendations for progression.
- Cost allocation and chargeback design helps organisations move from aggregate cloud cost visibility to meaningful allocation of spend to the teams, products, and business units that generate it. We work with your finance, engineering, and business stakeholders to design allocation methodologies that are accurate, maintainable, and credible to the people who will be held accountable for the numbers.
- Savings opportunity identification goes beyond what automated recommendation engines surface, applying practitioner judgement to identify structural savings opportunities in commitment purchasing strategy, reserved instance and savings plan coverage, architectural rightsizing candidates, and licensing optimisation – particularly in complex multi-cloud or hybrid environments where the interactions between cost drivers are not always obvious.
- FinOps operating model design helps organisations establish the governance structures, meeting cadences, escalation paths, and cross-functional accountability mechanisms that make FinOps a sustainable practice rather than a periodic initiative. We help you define roles, design workflows, and establish the cultural norms that make financial accountability a natural part of how engineering teams work.
- Ongoing advisory retainer engagements provide organisations with access to senior FinOps expertise on a continuous basis – for regular cost review sessions, strategic input on significant infrastructure decisions, and guidance as your cloud environment and business requirements evolve.
