Cloud Financial Operations Analyst

Job Accountabilities: 

• Continuously capture, analyze and present costs, utilization, waste & potential saving
• Drive cloud cost optimization through discovery, development, and sharing of cost-saving opportunities.
• Translate financial insights into actionable recommendations, promoting cost-aware architecture design, and leveraging code to automate resource optimization.
• Responsible for integrating FinOps tools, creating reusable design patterns and code modules to support optimization and Cloud Finance Management (CFM) policies.
• Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, chargebacks, show back, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners
• Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools
• Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the multi cloud landscape.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, IT or analytics
• A minimum of 5 years of overall professional experience; Financial Analyst and/or Business Analyst
• A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps/Cloud spend optimization
• Experience in sourcing of public cloud services
• Knowledge of cloud cost products (e.g., Cost Explorer, Azure Portal)
• Strong understanding of public cloud players (Azure), their product portfolio and commercial models
• Prior experience building custom reports with PowerBI,  etc
• General understanding of broad IT strategy and sourcing space and working market knowledge
• Ability to engage and interact independently with client personnel including architecture and procurement specialists
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal.

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