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Cloud Cost Management (FinOps) Business Analyst

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

To request a modification to this listing please email jobs@finops.org

  • Company: LanceSoft, Inc.
  • Published: 23rd November 2022
  • Closing Date: 31st December 2022
  • Country: Canada
  • Type: Full-time
  • Seniority: Mid-level Contributor
  • FinOps Certifications Required: Certified Practitioner