JOB DESCRIPTION AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Cloud FinOps Analyst you will: 

• Build, supervise and improve real-time cloud cost and consumption trackers/dashboards and forecasts for executive committee briefings, corporate finance workflows and engineering transparency.
• Drive cost optimization efforts by collaborating with Finance and Global Cloud teams across the enterprise, recommending and purchasing reserved instances & savings plans across Azure, AWS, Virtual Private Cloud providers.
• Partner with our Global Cloud Team to ensure appropriate tagging and alerts strategies are deployed and maintained at scale to manage costs.
• Work with internal teams to accurately cost out implementations.
• Develop and maintain KPIs, scorecards and standard methodologies documentation.

REQUIRED SKILLS & PROFILE

Experience

• 7+ years of professional experience with either information technology operations, controllership, business management, financial operations.
• 2+ years of experience with Cloud provider technology services is preferred.Demonstrated experience with cost optimization.
• Experience in building out a FinOps subject area within a large enterprise.
• Proficient cost management knowledge including but not limited to chargeback modeling, cost savings and avoidance tracking, trending and variance analysis and forecasting.
• Practical knowledge of native cloud provider cost management capabilities and pricing models.
• Experience with third-party cloud aggregator software with direct experience in anomaly detection, capacity planning and rightsizing, tagging and storage lifecycle policies, and automation.
• Analytical skills to collect, coordinate and present sophisticated data to a variety of audiences.
• Experience in developing KPI's and scorecards based on internal and industry benchmarks.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• IaaS foundation knowledge is required (Azure, AWS).
• Able to deliver and articulate good or not-o-good news.
• FinOps Foundation Certification would be a plus.

Knowledge and Skills

• You know how to influence decision-making - at all levels and across contexts - within an organization.
• You enjoy getting into the details, and you persevere where others do not.
• You keep up to date with the latest cloud trends and updates.
• You are curious about every detail and strive to be a domain specialist in your data sources.