Dir Financial Operations

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com We are building an enterprise FinOps capability to strengthen the financial management of HMH's technology run-rate. Reporting within the CIO organization, the Director of FinOps will lead the practices, operating cadence, analytics, and governance required to understand, forecast, and optimize recurring technology spend, with primary focus on Cloud, AI, and SaaS. This is a FinOps leadership role with strong technology fluency, not a cloud engineering or architecture role. The successful candidate must understand how technology consumption and commercial models drive cost and be comfortable working with technical teams and consumption data. Deep engineering expertise is not required. The role's primary value is translating usage, demand, contracts, and technology decisions into financial visibility, forecasts, optimization actions, and better business decisions. A central part of the role is working directly with Budget Owners and Contract Owners. Budget and Contract Owners retain accountability for their budgets, business needs, vendor relationships, and contractual decisions. FinOps provides the financial intelligence, governance, forecasting, utilization analysis, optimization insight, and operating cadence that enables those owners to manage spend effectively. The scope includes cloud infrastructure and platforms, AI models and services, SaaS applications, data and observability platforms, security tooling, and other material recurring technology services. HMH operates a hybrid environment today and is working toward greater use of AWS over time, making both current-state run-rate management and forward-looking migration economics important. What You Will Do: Own technology run-rate visibility. Establish and maintain a consolidated view of recurring technology spend across Cloud, AI, SaaS, and other material technology services. Provide clear visibility into actuals, budget, forecast, commitments, utilization, major cost drivers, and emerging financial risks. Lead the FinOps operating model. Establish and mature HMH's FinOps strategy, governance, processes, standards, and accountability mechanisms. Define practical approaches for cost ownership, allocation, tagging, showback, forecasting, optimization tracking, and financial performance measurement. Partner with Budget Owners. Establish a regular operating cadence with technology Budget Owners to review actual spend, run-rate,…