Chargeback & FinOps Culture ft. Polly Fabry & Prasshant Sharrma, Sysco | FinOps in Action | Ep 15

How can cultural shifts, executive alignment, and chargeback models elevate FinOps success?

In this episode of FinOps in Action, we welcome two industry leaders—Polly Fabry, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, and Prasshant Sharrma, Global FinOps Lead at Sysco—as they share powerful strategies for transforming cloud financial operations at scale.

Together, Polly and Prasshant dive deep into the practical tactics they use to optimize cloud costs, foster financial accountability, and promote cross-functional transparency within their organizations.

In this insightful conversation, we explore key topics including:

• How to drive cultural shifts to embed financial responsibility across teams.

• The transition from showback to chargeback models for better financial governance.

• Engaging executive leadership to support and scale FinOps initiatives.

• Leveraging FinOps to improve cost containment, operational efficiency, and cloud optimization.

• The future of FinOps, including the role of AI and expanding practices beyond public cloud environments.

Polly and Prasshant also share real-world lessons from leading FinOps transformations in large enterprises, offering actionable insights for both seasoned practitioners and those just beginning their FinOps journey.

Whether you’re in cloud finance, architecture, operations, or leadership, this episode is packed with expert strategies to help you build a culture of cost-awareness and scale FinOps impact.

Subscribe for more expert interviews, FinOps best practices, and cloud cost optimization strategies to power your financial operations!

Quotes of the Show:

• “ Cloud optimization and cost containment become an important part of those leaders repertoire when they're responsible for the budget, so you see a significant change in the cloud spend because now they feel it.” - Polly Fabry

• “We make sure I'm actually meeting with the top leaders every day and learning about their challenges and their business goals… We had a clear execution plan, and when certain things were coming from the top leadership, then engineers started taking action.” - Prasshant Sharrma

Connect with Polly & Prasshant:

• Polly’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pollyfabry/
• Prasshant’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasshantsharrma/
• Company website: https://www.sysco.com

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