FinOps Analyst

As a FinOps Analyst, you will be at the forefront of building and optimizing a framework that empowers our engineering teams to manage cloud costs effectively and provides stakeholders with the information to make value-driven decisions. You will create an abstraction over complex, flexible, and user-friendly infrastructure, balancing cost-efficiency with performance and security while making numerous critical decisions.

In this role, you will:

• Enable better decision-making by promoting and demonstrating cloud financial information.
• Analyze spend across multiple cloud vendors, identifying areas for optimization and efficiency gains.
• Closely partner with Engineering and Finance teams to understand Cloud business processes and cost drivers.
• Create reports, dashboards, and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations.
• Maintain, distribute, and improve company-wide cloud cost reporting.
• Continuously improve cloud cost management and reporting strategies and ensure compliance with modern financial standards.
• Identify ways to streamline the report-building, forecasting, and alerting processes while improving visibility.
• Develop solutions and frameworks to facilitate cost-effective testing, deployment, and monitoring of services.
• Proactively monitor cloud consumption to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Assist with contract negotiations by modeling usage, cost, and discounts for multiple scenarios.

Qualifications

• Loves working with cost data and cloud cost optimization, learns constantly, and can’t wait to share insights about the latest cool tools they’ve tried.
• Has at least 3 years of experience managing costs, preferably in a highly scaled multi-cloud environment
• Is knowledgeable of AWS —or has deep expertise in Azure or GCP and is willing to learn AWS quickly.
• can utilize BI tools effectively to build comprehensive reports, analyze cost data and present to decision-makers
• Can communicate well and collaborate effectively, empathetically, and proactively on a tightly integrated team.
• Can understand a problem, see the holistic picture, and break it down into single and manageable components.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based.