Cloud-FinOps Analyst-Canada (ZOR – 3617)

FinOps certified practitioners with cloud background.

Responsibilities:

• As a Cloud FinOps Analyst, you will:
• Work in an exciting, growing, and vital team that is at the center of the action for enterprise roadmap initiatives.
• Help to deliver secure, scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient cloud solutions in a multi-cloud environment – primarily within Azure, but also in Mulesoft, SAP Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Platform, and a growing list of cloud service providers and cloud hosted solutions.
• Continuously monitor and optimize cloud service consumption
• Report on cloud consumption on a periodic basis for Opex spend and Capital program investment attribution.
• Perform period-over-period analysis on consumption monitoring trends, track and validate cost optimization efforts, and identify opportunities for savings.
• Work closely with IT Finance on capital registers, Opex budgeting and forecasting.
• Work with cross-functional teams providing services in the cloud (Azure) to define forecasts and budgets for opex growth and project/program planning.
• Monitor and report on the burndown against pre-payment reservations (e.g. Azure Databricks). Work closely with consumers and Strategic Sourcing to forecast when those pre-payments will be consumed and assist in the negotiation of subsequent pre-payments and reservations.
• Support cross-functional teams consuming cloud services to understand issues in spend and opportunities for savings and best practices around consumption of cloud services.
• Work with the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) on project charter estimates for cloud services.
• Work with the Business Partnership department on financial estimates and estimating frameworks for new business portfolio management (PPMO) initiatives.
• Maintain relationships with the cloud service providers to gain support and insights and for opportunities for cost optimization.
• Support IT leadership on enterprise agreement and commit to consume planning.
• Monitor and report on burndown of commit to consume programs with cloud service providers.
• Plan, forecasts, manage, and track the inventory of cloud service reservations.
• Assist in the planning for, evaluation and implementation of cloud consumption management tools and solutions.
• Setup, maintain, and manage automated alerting for product budgets within Azure.
• Work with Cloud and DevOps COEs to ensure financial attribution tagging policies are strictly enforced.
• Perform ad-hoc Cloud consumption analysis as required.

Job Requirements:

• What Your Resume Will Include And Demonstrate To Us
• Any related Azure certification will be a significant differentiator.
• Experience with other public clouds e.g. Google Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud Platform/Foundry.
• Experience with Salesforce, SAP, SAP-CDC, OSP.
• E-Commerce and Retail experience.