{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FinOps In Full Bloom","title":"The Finance Leader Who Audited AI Spend — And Won","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2738,"description":"This episode covers how Emily Allen used CloudZero data to analyze AI tool usage across her organization, identify model-level inefficiencies — specifically the over-reliance on Claude Opus for tasks better suited to Sonnet — and generate approximately $30K in annualized savings through targeted conversations with internal teams. She also addresses the broader challenge finance leaders face with AI spend: the shift from centralized procurement to distributed, card-swipe adoption, and what that means for visibility and accountability.Emily Allen is the Director of Finance and Accounting at CloudZero, where she sits in the rare position of actively using the product she helps support financially. A CPA with Big Four roots, she has held finance roles at CarGurus and Roku before landing at CloudZero, where her proximity to the product gives her a practitioner's view of how FinOps tooling can serve finance teams beyond the engineering org. Her perspective in this episode is grounded in hands-on execution — not theory.Learn more at https://www.cloudzero.com/ ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TG_tpTTRouGETVwbcOgIFSa01yt35bTD9gH-VmNy-dk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMTAx/YTU3ZWNkZTQzNTg2/MjFjZTE2NzY4ZDVk/M2U2ZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}