Business Analyst - Cloud FinOps
Description:
- Spend Analysis
- Conduct regular cloud business reviews to investigate anomalies, fulfill reporting requests, and identify optimization opportunities.
- Collaborate with partners to understand infrastructure strategies across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
- Analyze cloud spend data to identify cost drivers, usage patterns, and inefficiencies.
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports that provide transparency into spend trends and anomalies.
- Data Analysis and Insights: Employ advanced analytical skills to assess large datasets, identify trends, and provide data-driven insights for handling and optimizing spend.
- Work with business units to uncover opportunities for improving cost-effectiveness and efficiency in resource utilization.
- Translate data findings into actionable recommendations for engineering, finance, and leadership teams.
- Cost Optimization: Recommend solutions and configurations that align with business goals, emphasizing cost considerations and efficiency.
- Ensure reporting and process designs are informed by analytical insights, with a focus on optimizing overall spend and resource utilization.
- Communication and Collaboration: Serve as a liaison between finance, engineering, procurement, and leadership teams.
- Present findings and recommendations in a clear, concise manner tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Lead training and enablement efforts to educate teams on FinOps practices, tools, and cloud cost awareness.
- Committed Use Management: Analyze usage patterns and monitor commitment coverage and utilization.
- Deliver targeted reviews to ensure commitments align with expected or known changes in usage.
- Improve the value of cloud commitments and reduce waste.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Cloud Financial Analyst, or FinOps Practitioner with a focus on cloud spend management and financial operations.
- Experience with major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure), including billing models, pricing structures, and commitment-based discounts (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts).
- Familiarity with FinOps tools and platforms (e.g., CloudHealth, Cloudability,AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, etc).
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or willingness to obtain the certification within the first 6 months.
- Ability to monitor and run committed use coverage and utilization, and align commitments with forecasted usage.
- Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of financial accountability and cloud cost awareness.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated experience in analyzing cloud usage and spend data to identify trends, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.
- Proficient in using reporting tools for data visualization and presentation.
- Experience with SQL and Excel for data manipulation; familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, R) is a plus.
- Superb communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong customer engagement and training facilitation skills to support enablement and FinOps education initiatives.
- Demonstrable ability to manage requirements gathering, documentation, and prioritization in multi-functional environments.
- Superb attention to detail, ensuring precision in data analysis.
Benefits:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k) plan
- life insurance coverage
- disability benefits
- tuition assistance program
- PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- This position is bonus eligible.
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