senior cloud financial operations analyst.

job summary:
Drive Cloud FinOps Analysis for a hybrid estate (cloud, on-prem, and SaaS), with a primary focus on AWS. Own the financial rigor of our cloud program-data pipelines, allocation, forecasting, commitments, and optimization-turning usage into actionable insights and measurable savings across engineering and finance. Scope includes spend across AWS (preferred), with exposure to Azure/GCP and major SaaS platforms.

 
 
location: Telecommute
job type: Solutions
salary: $62 - 68 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:
Drive Cloud FinOps Analysis for a hybrid estate (cloud, on-prem, and SaaS), with a primary focus on AWS. Own the financial rigor of our cloud program-data pipelines, allocation, forecasting, commitments, and optimization-turning usage into actionable insights and measurable savings across engineering and finance. Scope includes spend across AWS (preferred), with exposure to Azure/GCP and major SaaS platforms. Candidates will ideally be in Chicago or Houston area.

Required Skills - AWS

SQL

Python

Business Intelligence

FinOps

Job Duties - - Own the FinOps data layer: Build and govern CUR/usage pipelines leveraging existing cost platforms, or home built tooling leveraging PowerBI. Define schemas, SLAs, and FOCUS-aligned datasets; work towards 99%+ allocation coverage via tags.

o Identify gaps in data needs and define requirements for bridging capability gaps via home-built solutions or current solutions on the market.

- Establish showback/chargeback: Refine allocation models, publish monthly bills to the respective owners, and drive accountability with budget vs. actuals and unit-economics KPIs.

o Develop and maintain insightful dashboards and custom reports that empower engineers to manage their own cloud spend effectively.

- Forecast & plan: Deliver driver-based forecasts (application/leadership), scenario models for roadmap changes, and monthly variance analyses for FP&A and engineering leaders.

- Optimize at scale: Create automation and playbooks (rightsizing, scheduling, storage tiering, compute - EKS and ECS fargate). Partner with our platform engineering team to ensure FinOps best practices are embedded in enablement patterns.

o Identify opportunities to improve effective routing of engineering opportunities to the correct owners.

o Create processes and programs to juxtapose opportunities along with other key reports to engineers, owners and leadership for effective decision making.

- Commitment strategy: Lead commitment planning and renewals, target coverage and utilization %.

o Refine a strategy and process to upkeep commitment purchasing.

o Establish KPIs to continually monitor efficacy of commitment strategy.

o Develop systems to ensure engineering visibility

- Governance: Define tagging standards, budgets/alerts; measure adherence and lead corrective actions in collaboration with FP&A partners.

o Understand cultural and systemic challenges which need leadership attention to improve overall adherence.

o Establish monthly processes.

- Anomaly response: Operate spend monitoring, triage spikes, run incident reviews, and prevent recurrences.

o Establish a means to quantify and drive appropriate attention towards anomalous spend based on different personas.

- Persona based reporting: Build concise, role-based dashboards (engineer, exec, owner, finance). Continuously scrutinize the efficacy or reporting and identify enhancements needed to meet the persona's needs.

o Monitor efficacy of outcomes: Establish KPIs and reports key for the finance and FinOps teams to monitor efficacy of the program.

o Implement operating models to drive outcomes in alignment with agreed upon KPI/reporting targets. Raise risks or gaps to leadership and team members for tactical solutioning.

o Ensure scalability of reporting through automatable, uniform reporting to ensure maintainability. Establish processes for handling edge cases without disrupting existing solutions.

- Program leadership: Set KPIS, participate in backlogging and ceremonies, mentor team members or stakeholders, and grow a community of practice aligned to the FinOps Framework.

o Develop systems and processes to gather feedback from stakeholders and end users. Emphasize prioritization to leadership and team members to be planned and design accordingly during regular planning ceremonies.

o Bring your own ideas to strategic planning and leadership discussions to emphasize key areas to improve to mature the program.

o Participate in SAFe agile planning practices to tactically prioritize improvements in alignment with leadership expectations. Highlight risks and blockers in a timely fashion to address via appropriate channels

Job Requirements - -5-8 yrs Exp in FinOPs/Cloud/FP&A Platform

-3+ years hands-on with AWS architectures and cost data

-Strong SQL and on scropting language (Python preferred); experience with data orchestration (Glue Lambda)

-Demonstrated delivery at scale (>$50M spend) and owership of commitments strategy

-BI experience (PowerBI/QuickSight/Looker) and at least one FinOps TBM tool (CloudZero/Apptio/CloudHealth/Harness/Flexera

-Certifiications: Fin Ops Certified Practioner / AWS Practitioner or Solutions Architect

Desired Skills & Experience - -Azure/GCP billing exports

-Databricks/SaaS cost optimization

-Accounting/close experience (accurals, SOX)

 
qualifications:
5-8+ years in FinOps/Cloud/FP&A/Platform

3+ years hands-on with AWS architectures and cost data.

Strong SQL and one scripting language (Python preferred); experience with data orchestration (Glue, Lambda).

Demonstrated delivery at scale (>$50M spend) and ownership of commitments strategy.

BI experience (Power BI/QuickSight/Looker) and at least one FinOps/TBM tool (CloudZero/Apptio/CloudHealth/Harness/Flexera).

Certifications: FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional; AWS Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect (or equivalent experience).

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