Cloud Business Analyst (FinOps)

Adobe • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! The Opportunity This is a high-impact opportunity to join Adobe’s Cloud FinOps program, where we help teams understand, optimize, and make smarter decisions about cloud usage and investment. We work closely with finance, engineering, product, and leadership to drive meaningful cost efficiency—while building systems, dashboards, frameworks and processes that scale. We’re looking for someone eager, analytical, and organized. Deep cloud expertise is helpful—but curiosity, grit, along with breaking problems down and building solutions, matter more. This will an opportunity for someone who enjoys consulting-style problem solving and automation. The Challenge As a FinOps Cloud Analyst, you’ll play a central role in how cloud efficiency data is created, shared, and acted on across Adobe—directly contributing to savings initiatives with millions of dollars in impact. Design and run processes that collect, analyze, and distribute cloud cost, usage and efficiency metrics across every product team in Adobe Build automation that helps reduce manual work using your familiarity with tools our engineers use (SQL, Python, Cursor, Tableau). Create dashboards when needed. Help shape operating strategies for cloud optimization—identifying data, opportunities, and risks and turning insights into executable programs with landmark based roadmaps Support internal “customers” by answering questions, surfacing trends, and proactively delivering the information teams need Model financial impacts of cloud infrastructure and operating decisions and present insights to key decision makers Gain exposure to executives and teams across all products and roles Take full responsibility for your results - Be trusted to figure things out and build how FinOps operates

Requirements

• Capabilities across customer insights development, strategy creation, cross-functional leadership and program execution
• Ability to simultaneously oversee and lead multiple cloud business initiatives with high organizational skills. Ease in collaborating with finance, engineering and product managers to define project scope, objectives, timelines, and deliverables. Comfort in proposing / correcting pathways.
• You know your way around some current process automation tooling and are eager to learn new engineering tools easily to make speed to output faster.
• Solid grasp of financial modeling and budgeting. Love numbers and Excel. Comfort working with ambiguity and can synthesize information into numbers with ease.
• Skilled at building trust, influencing without authority, and soliciting feedback to incorporate into programs and communications. Not afraid to ask questions to get clarity or seek executive guidance/support to overcome roadblocks.
• An uncanny ability to synthesize information from a variety of sources to present thoughtful decisions and opportunities.
• Demonstrated perseverance through complex challenges and the ability to turn incomplete information into actionable decisions.
• BA/BS in Business Administration, Communications, or a related field, with equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of experience in finance, analytics, consulting, or program management
• Project/Program management experience (PMP certification not required)
• High proficiency in Power Point, Excel and Jira – Tableau, SQL a plus
• History of working with large data sets and managing multiple concurrent work streams.
• Gain exposure to executives and teams across all products and roles
• Develop highly transferable skills in cloud economics, analytics, and AI-enabled work
• Own your outcome - You’ll be trusted to figure things out and shape how FinOps operates

Nice To Haves

• Consulting experience preferred
• MBA is a plus or equivalent working experience

Responsibilities

• Design and run processes that collect, analyze, and distribute cloud cost, usage and efficiency metrics across every product team in Adobe
• Build automation that helps reduce manual work using your familiarity with tools our engineers use (SQL, Python, Cursor, Tableau). Create dashboards when needed.
• Help shape operating strategies for cloud optimization—identifying data, opportunities, and risks and turning insights into executable programs with landmark based roadmaps
• Support internal “customers” by answering questions, surfacing trends, and proactively delivering the information teams need
• Model financial impacts of cloud infrastructure and operating decisions and present insights to key decision makers
• Gain exposure to executives and teams across all products and roles
• Take full responsibility for your results - Be trusted to figure things out and build how FinOps operates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees