Senior Cloud Financial Operations Analyst

Position Overview

Join Autodesk as a Senior Cloud Financial Operations Analyst, where you’ll play a critical role in enhancing our FinOps capabilities for internal teams. This position requires a unique blend of FinOps execution, advanced analytics, and product ownership. You will foster a culture of FinOps through accountability and transparency, build self-service options, and leverage automation to deliver insights, recommendations, and optimization strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Responsibilities

Build and enhance FinOps as a service, product community, and culture to empower stakeholders.

• Act as the FinOps Product Owner, overseeing dashboards, reporting, documentation, communications, automation, self-service options, and intake workflows.
• Develop and maintain a FinOps services portal as the go-to entry point for stakeholders to access services, understand usage, and seek assistance.
• Refine the operating model for FinOps as a service, including backlog prioritization, roadmap development, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead a network of FinOps Champions across engineering, finance, and product teams to enhance stakeholder self-sufficiency through structured cadences and shared goals.
• Promote FinOps cultural practices that bolster governance and decision quality across the organization.

Deliver high-impact analytics, dashboards, and optimization strategies.

• Design, maintain, and iterate on dashboards and reporting tools using Apptio Cloudability, Apptio BI, and Turbonomic, ensuring clarity and quality of data.
• Conduct repeatable analyses for detecting anomalies and key cost drivers and communicate actionable insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Establish and uphold reporting standards to enhance trust and consistency among stakeholders.
• Identify and formalize optimization opportunities into automated processes to simplify detection, recommendation, and execution workflows.
• Monitor adoption and outcomes through feedback mechanisms, continuously refining the quality of recommendations.
• Assist cloud service owners with forecasting cloud expenditures, budget tracking, and providing clear variance explanations.
• Work towards improving cloud cost efficiency through negotiations and monitoring realized savings.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering to implement automation and establish guardrails to ensure sustained application of recommendations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst, with experience in requirements gathering, process mapping, and delivering stakeholder-centric capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with a track record of addressing complex problems and communicating insights.
• Hands-on experience with dashboard tools such as Apptio Cloudability, Apptio BI, and Turbonomic, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of cloud billing systems and comfort working within a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience collaborating with technical teams to drive automation and define measurable outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create technical documentation and compelling narratives for executives.
• Demonstrated customer-focused service mindset, consistently improving documentation and service capabilities.
• Preferred: FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar certifications in AWS, Azure, etc.

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About Autodesk

At Autodesk, we empower innovators to transform their ideas into reality through our leading-edge software. Our mission is to help create amazing things—from sustainable buildings and efficient vehicles to cutting-edge films.

We pride ourselves on our inclusive culture that informs everything we do—from how we work together to how we connect with our customers and promote diversity in our industry.

Join us in making a meaningful impact on the world. Ready to shape the future? Apply now!

Benefits

We offer comprehensive health and financial benefits to ensure our team members can deliver their best work. Discover more about our U.S. benefits.

Salary Transparency

We provide competitive compensation, showcasing a base salary range between $98,000 and $175,450 for U.S.-based roles, influenced by experience and location. Our total compensation may also include bonuses, commissions, stock options, and a comprehensive benefits package.