Senior Financial Analyst

Overview:
The Senior Financial Analyst is primarily responsible for supporting the reporting, analysis, and communication of actual financial performance and forecast outlook related to technology cloud spending. In this role, the selected candidate will provide a wide range of financial information and insights to technology management and business units. They will be responsible for developing budgets and forecasts, monitoring cloud cost management performance indicators (KPIs), and driving transparency and optimization.

Responsibilities:
We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Financial Analyst who will report to the Cloud FinOps Director and play a pivotal role in our journey towards cloud innovation and analytical maturity.

Key responsibilities include:

• Serve as Finance Analyst/Lead to cloud product deployment projects and services.
• Provide financial support on budget reconciliation process, variance report and research against budget/forecasts. Provides financial support as required during financial gap analysis.
• Leads the monthly close process, journal entries, understands variances between actuals vs. forecast/budget pertaining to trends.
• Ability to deliver high quality analysis independently, leveraging spreadsheet and other quantitative tools i.e., MS Power BI (a plus).
• Analyze large and complex data sets to identify trends and anomalies that may indicate cost control weaknesses or potential risks.
• Partner with engineering and finance to understand cost analytic needs and identify high-impact opportunities to improve the chargeback process and implement sound analytical solution.
• Develop and maintain automated chargeback and workflows to streamline chargeback processes and improve efficiency.
• A plus, if ability to visualize data and apply data insights using tools such as Power BI, Power Query, writing analytical expressions i.e. DAX and MDX

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of job-related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Strong math skills or a background in finance, analytics, statistics, and ability to deal with anomalies are essential.
• Understanding or exposure to Cloud Cost management and best practices i.e., showback and chargeback (a plus).
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, ability to manipulate data extracts using Excel dynamic and logical formulas.
• Data science experience, i.e., Tableau, Power Query, Power BI (a plus)
• Motivated self-starter with capacity to manage multiple priorities.
• Understanding of and adherence to Accounting policies and SOX controls