Job Description
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