FinOps Financial Analyst

• The Financial Analyst (FinOps) role plays a crucial role in the continued adoption of public cloud services here at This position is responsible for compiling, analyzing, and reporting on cloud financial data for various organizations inside the company to ensure we are maximizing value for the business.
• This person will also play a crucial role as part of a team in evangelizing and growing the public cloud adoption at by working with various stakeholders to optimize public cloud consumption.
• Successful candidates should be experienced analysts with strong customer engagement and communications skills.

Essential Job Functions:

• Responsible for complex tasks in various financial functions such as budgeting, auditing, forecasting, and analysis related to public cloud spend among Microsoft Azure, Client Web Services, or Google Cloud.
• Collects and reviews usage, operational, and financial data from various sources.
• Performs financial analysis to help Business Owners determine impacts of cloud adoption.
• Helps transform how uses cloud-based analytics platforms acting as a SME and helping grow our future capabilities
• Works closely with data teams across all of
• Defines the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and business value for moving to the public cloud
• Develops, executes, maintains, and tracks our cloud reservation portfolio
• Analyzes assigned business owner accounts, cloud usage, and capacity requirements.
• Supports cost owners in managing, tracking, monitoring, and reporting financial data as requested.
• Makes recommendations to cost owners to improve financial optimizations
• Develops plans for assigned accounts and tracks performance to plan.
• Assists in the development of optimization policies and guidelines.
• Conducts regular audits and analysis of optimization efforts, and reviews their practices and procedures, ensuring that new resources are approved, allowable, and in the best interest of the business.
• Will help identify areas of risk and provide mitigation recommendations.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant public cloud optimization, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Participates in special projects as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, or Data Analytics or a related discipline
• 5-8 years of related finance or business analysis experience.
• Existing cloud optimization expertise is required.
• Experience managing cloud portfolios more than 5m a year
• Background in managing cloud reservations
• Understanding FinOps concepts or FinOps Certifications preferred
• Extensive cloud financial knowledge and understanding in Client Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficiency in the use of Excel spreadsheet or other related platforms for financial analysis.
• Outstanding communication skills both orally and written