Cloud FinOps Analyst (Member of Technical Staff) – Athenahealth

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Athenahealth a leading healthcare organization committed to delivering innovative and compassionate care. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to provide high-quality services to our patients and partners.

We are seeking a Cloud FinOps Analyst to join our (ACE) Athena Cloud Efficiency team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for analyzing cloud financial operations, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and ensuring the efficient use of cloud resources. This role requires a strong understanding of cloud platforms, financial analysis, and cost management. In this role, you will analyze and collect data to provide financial insights. This role will develop reports, budgeting, and forecasting, consumption analysis and dashboards including KPIs, analytics and capacity.

Essential Functions (Duties and Responsibilities):

· Financial Reporting:

o Prepare regular financial reports, presentations, and dashboards to provide insights and updates to management and stakeholders. This may involve analyzing financial data, creating visualizations, and communicating key findings and recommendations.

o Create reports and alerts to track spending trends and the impact of cost optimizations.

o Develop and maintain financial models to budget-forecast and track cloud costs.

o Conduct cloud utilization/spend analysis, optimization recommendations.

o Leverage Apptio’s financial management tools to analyze and optimize cloud costs and generate detailed financial reports and dashboards.

· Data Processing:

o Develop and maintain a FinOps Data repository, integrate data sources via APIs, automate allocations, and provide accurate, reliable data for downstream reporting.

o Ability to aggregate and summarize complex data into management reporting.

· Cost Optimization:

o Identify and implement optimization procedures to reduce costs and improve financial efficiency. This may involve analyzing usage patterns, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and making recommendations for cost reduction initiatives.

o Drive cost savings through identifying, purchasing and extending reserved instances or savings plans and exchanging reserved instances on a regular basis.

o Identify opportunities to use cloud services more efficiently, such as resizing instances, idle resources or using SPOT instances.

o Monitor cloud usage, subscription costs, and find ways to optimize spending.

· Budgeting and Forecasting:

o Assist in the development of budgets and forecasts by providing financial analysis, insights, and recommendations. This may involve analyzing historical data, market trends, and business objectives to develop accurate financial projections.

o Work with the Accounting dept to ensure cloud billing data, refunds and discounts are processed and billed correctly.

o Manage Cloud invoice process.

Typical Qualifications:

· 2+ years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps/Cloud Spend optimization.

· Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Experience with Apptio is strongly encouraged.

· Ability to properly structure, model, and optimize FinOps Data repository, including data ingestion, governance, storage, API integration and processing.

· Do deep dives to further dissect issues or identify opportunities.

· Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations.

· Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization.

· Possess a current FinOps certification, or ability to attain within 12 months.

Education & Experience Required:

· Bachelor’s degree (master’s degree preferred).

· 4-6 years of experience computer science, engineering, information technology or an alternate combination.

· Experience in an Agile environment preferred.

Knowledge & Skills:

· AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Trusted Advisor, Azure Cost Management, Recommendation Advisor, AWS Quicksight.

· Experience with SaaS technologies, costing models and cloud costing products (Apptio, Power BI, Tableau, CloudHealth, Cloudcheckr, Data Lake, APIs, etc.)

· Experience with at least 1 cloud billing system (AWS or Azure)