FinOps & Value Realization Lead

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries.  Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information.

As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, and we pair the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Our teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for a FinOps & Value Realization Lead. The FinOps & Value Realization Lead (also known as Value Realization / FinOps Lead) will help ensure investments in data, AI, cloud, platforms, and digital capabilities translate into measurable business value and sustainable economics. This role will connect financial transparency, unit economics, benefits realization, consumption management, and investment decisions so leaders can scale what works and address what does not. The ideal candidate combines financial discipline, technology fluency, analytical thinking, and the ability to influence decisions through clear evidence. Success in this role means every major investment has a tracked value case, AI and platform costs are understood per unit of work, and leaders scale or stop based on evidence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Define value-realization methods that connect priority-initiative baselines, targets, adoption, operational KPIs, and financial outcomes
• Partner with Finance, Product, and business owners to validate business cases and track realized versus expected benefits
• Establish platform and AI FinOps practices including consumption monitoring, forecasting, budgeting, unit economics, anomaly detection, and cost visibility reporting
• Analyze build, buy, partner, cloud, on-premises, and managed-service economics and communicate tradeoffs to leadership
• Create recurring portfolio reporting on investment, run cost, benefits, utilization, and scale decisions
• Validate realized benefits against approved business cases, distinguish financial savings from cost avoidance and productivity gains, and prevent duplicate attribution across initiatives
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
• Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
• Ability to travel overnight

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries.  Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information.

As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, and we pair the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Our teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for a FinOps & Value Realization Lead. The FinOps & Value Realization Lead (also known as Value Realization / FinOps Lead) will help ensure investments in data, AI, cloud, platforms, and digital capabilities translate into measurable business value and sustainable economics. This role will connect financial transparency, unit economics, benefits realization, consumption management, and investment decisions so leaders can scale what works and address what does not. The ideal candidate combines financial discipline, technology fluency, analytical thinking, and the ability to influence decisions through clear evidence. Success in this role means every major investment has a tracked value case, AI and platform costs are understood per unit of work, and leaders scale or stop based on evidence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Define value-realization methods that connect priority-initiative baselines, targets, adoption, operational KPIs, and financial outcomes
• Partner with Finance, Product, and business owners to validate business cases and track realized versus expected benefits
• Establish platform and AI FinOps practices including consumption monitoring, forecasting, budgeting, unit economics, anomaly detection, and cost visibility reporting
• Analyze build, buy, partner, cloud, on-premises, and managed-service economics and communicate tradeoffs to leadership
• Create recurring portfolio reporting on investment, run cost, benefits, utilization, and scale decisions
• Validate realized benefits against approved business cases, distinguish financial savings from cost avoidance and productivity gains, and prevent duplicate attribution across initiatives
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
• Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
• Ability to travel overnight

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Analytics, Business, Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in financial analysis, FinOps, technology finance, value realization, strategic finance, analytics, or related roles
• Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills with ability to translate technical consumption into business economics
• Experience with technology budgets, cloud or platform consumption, software licensing, vendor economics, or capital planning
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities
• Strong ability to challenge assumptions constructively and communicate financial insights to technical and business leaders
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps certification or experience with Snowflake, Azure, AI infrastructure including hybrid cloud and on-premises economics, AI unit economics (cost per token, task, or outcome), SaaS consumption, or technology portfolio economics is preferred
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including\:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

Build YOUR future with D.R. Horton, America’s Builder.#WeBuildPeopleToo

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Analytics, Business, Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in financial analysis, FinOps, technology finance, value realization, strategic finance, analytics, or related roles
• Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills with ability to translate technical consumption into business economics
• Experience with technology budgets, cloud or platform consumption, software licensing, vendor economics, or capital planning
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities
• Strong ability to challenge assumptions constructively and communicate financial insights to technical and business leaders
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps certification or experience with Snowflake, Azure, AI infrastructure including hybrid cloud and on-premises economics, AI unit economics (cost per token, task, or outcome), SaaS consumption, or technology portfolio economics is preferred
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including\:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

Build YOUR future with D.R. Horton, America’s Builder.#WeBuildPeopleToo