FinOps Analyst with Infra Cloud Computing

Role:

We are looking for an experienced FinOps Analyst to provide business and financial governance support for our Cloud Services, and to assist in managing the cloud spend and providing guidance on opportunities for cost optimization. The ideal candidate already possesses deep experience in the FinOps discipline as an optimization practitioner or as a cloud consultant

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support consumers in understanding their cloud bills based on their business goals and budget

• Provide summaries and detailed usage statistics for resources across public clouds, offering actionable intelligence to right-size and scale services efficiently

• Identify and facilitate opportunities to optimize, reduce cost and plans to realize the savings

• Build and maintain cloud usage visibility to proactively optimize workloads

• Provide early intervention, management and advice to consumers of the cloud services

• Work closely with financial teams on budget, forecast and expenses reports relating to hosting

• Oversee the Cloud Billing Dashboard, and manage Cloud Compute Savings Plan and Reserved Instance purchases

• Create operational metrics to demonstrate costs and usage and assist with continuous tracking

• Lead regular cadence calls providing expert advice and consulting on cloud financial management activities

• Configure and manage cloud cost optimization tools

• Create and maintain internal documentation on FinOps and cost optimization processes and customer environments

Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience in cloud expense management using the FinOps discipline

• Cloud FinOps knowledge to include deep knowledge of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, cost & usage data, and basic finance and accounting knowledge

• Experience working with Cloud FinOps tools

• Familiarity with cost structure of AWS, Azure and Google products and services

• Strong ability to analyze and interpret data and provide insights

• Strong written and oral communication skills, and experience presenting formally or informally

• Microsoft office tools including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook

• Real world experience with BI and/or cost tracking tools such as Tableau, Apptio BI is preferred

• AWS Cloud Practioner experience preferred

• FinOps Foundation or TBM certification is highly desirable

If you only meet some of the requirements for this role, that’s okay!!! We value a diverse range of backgrounds & ideas and believe this is fundamental for our future success. So, if you have the curiosity to learn and the willingness to teach what you know, we’d love to hear from you.