Dinesh Sonawane

Dinesh Sonawane is the Vice President of FinOps at Workday, a position he has held since July 2020.2 He is based in Cupertino, California.4 Prior to joining Workday, Sonawane worked in Finance Strategy and Operations at Google Cloud | G Suite from November 2018 to July 2020.2 He also held various leadership roles at Oracle, including Vice President Finance, Cloud and Development, and Chief of Finance for Oracle Cloud Services.2

Sonawane has extensive experience in:

• Business Intelligence
• Financial Analysis
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Cloud Computing
• Budgeting and Forecasting2

At Workday, Sonawane plays an active role in managing infrastructure costs for both on-premise and public cloud environments, and is a key decision-maker in migrating from data centers to public cloud.1 He is also involved in integrating FinOps with enterprise financial systems to enhance transparency.3

Sonawane is a prominent speaker in the FinOps community, often presenting at industry events such as FinOps X.13