Cloud Cost Management (FinOps) Business Analyst

Job Title :Cloud Cost Management (FinOps) Business Analyst
Location: Montral ( office Attendance 2 to 3 times per week from Day 1)

You will:

• Drive adoption of Cloud FinOps capabilities and best practices within the organization
• Develop cost management processes, mechanisms and controls to provide ongoing cost transparency and governance
• Articulate the value of public cloud adoption use cases to business and technology teams -Provide commercial insights / deal economics support for strategic vendor engagements
• Drive a culture of proactive cost management, transparency and optimization across public cloud spend
• Identify cost saving / optimization opportunities and liaise with technology team to provide execution support
• Track cost optimization actions and associated value
• Manage vendor commercial incentives (e.g. Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, credits, etc.)
• Define advanced cost recovery models for non-standard allocations (e.g. shared services & platforms, SaaS, etc.)
• Monitor ongoing cost management compliance
• Drive cross-functional engagement across business and technology teams through training and communications

You have:

• Experience working in a technology department, with focus on commercial / financial management
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure and public cloud concepts
• Experience with public cloud cost management mechanics and tools (native / 3rd party)
• -Experience in financial analysis / working with large datasets and creation of data-driven executive materials
• Experience in delivering presentation content to business and technology stakeholders
• Proactive mindset and ability to work independently in a large organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

You might also have:

• Experience in effective IT cost management strategies, models, processes, tools
• Experience with business chargeback / cost recovery models / TCO / capacity planning
• Experience in articulating public cloud migration economics, including articulating benefits of cloud investments at business / technology executive level
• Experience with Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, Reserved Instances, vendor discounts and other AWS, Azure, GCP cost mechanics
• Understanding of cloud billing processes and procedures
• FinOps / TBM certifications