Month-end chargeback – Applying RI and savings plan credits then distributing cloud costs to each individual product cost center.
Monthly budget management and automated alerting via CloudHealth, Slack and email
Invoice reconciliation for AWS and GCP
Annual budget cycle – Define the annual budget then work with BU stakeholders to ensure it is accurate
Cloud cost triage – Connect with each product prime when they exceed monthly cloud spend – Target state is 12% variance
Daily anomaly detection
Committed Use Discount Strategy and management
Reserved Instance purchases and renewals
Savings plan management
Reserved instance exchanges
Reserved Instance analysis and recommendations
FinOps intro sessions and training
The candidate needs to be competent in financial management with a good understanding of cloud technologies.
They need to understand cloud cost management, be fluent in the FinOps framework and be comfortable in partnering with people at all levels from developers to directors.
