About The Position
The FinOps Analyst supports financial management and cost optimization across Infrastructure and Technology. The role provides visibility into infrastructure spend, identifies savings opportunities, manages forecasts and budgets, and coordinates financial activities related to cloud hosting, software and tools, contractor renewals, CAPEX/OPEX, and purchase orders. The analyst works with Infrastructure, CloudOps, Engineering, Finance, and business stakeholders to improve cost visibility, strengthen financial governance, and ensure technology investments are planned and managed effectively. The role monitors infrastructure and cloud costs, develops reporting on actual spend, forecasts, budgets, and variances, and tracks optimization initiatives and realized savings. It coordinates budget planning and forecasting, maintains inventories of technology tools and renewals, tracks contractor costs, and supports purchasing and purchase-order management. The analyst also develops FinOps dashboards, supports monthly financial reviews, and improves processes for cost ownership, forecasting, purchasing, and financial accountability. Success in the role includes improved visibility into technology spend, fewer budget surprises, measurable infrastructure savings, better renewal management, clear contractor cost visibility, improved purchasing discipline, and stronger financial ownership across Infrastructure and CloudOps.
Requirements
- Experience in FinOps, financial analysis, technology operations, cloud operations, procurement, or a related discipline.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience managing budgets, forecasts, and cost variance analysis.
- Understanding of cloud and infrastructure cost concepts, preferably across AWS and/or Azure.
- Experience managing or analyzing software licensing, subscriptions, vendor costs, or technology contracts.
- Strong Excel and data analysis/reporting skills.
- Experience working with Finance, Procurement, Engineering, Infrastructure, or Cloud Operations teams.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple budgets, renewals, purchase orders, and financial commitments simultaneously.
- Ability to translate detailed financial data into clear insights and recommendations for technical and leadership audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization practices.
- Experience with AWS/Azure cost management or FinOps platforms.
- Experience with Salesforce-based purchasing or purchase-order processes.
- Experience developing dashboards using Power BI or similar reporting tools.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar certification.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze infrastructure and cloud hosting costs across environments and platforms.
- Develop monthly reporting on actual spend, forecasts, budgets, and cost variances.
- Identify infrastructure cost optimization opportunities, track initiatives through implementation, and validate realized savings.
- Help establish cost allocation, tagging, and ownership practices.
- Support infrastructure teams with cost analysis for architectural and capacity decisions.
- Coordinate annual and periodic budget planning for infrastructure hosting, software, tools, and related technology expenses.
- Maintain forecasts, track actual spend against approved budgets, and communicate material variances and emerging cost risks.
- Partner with technical owners to understand upcoming capacity, infrastructure, licensing, and tooling requirements.
- Maintain visibility into upcoming financial commitments and planned investments.
- Maintain an inventory of infrastructure tools, software subscriptions, licenses, costs, owners, and renewal dates.
- Coordinate renewals with technical owners, Procurement, and Finance; analyze utilization and spend to identify optimization, consolidation, or retirement opportunities.
- Track contractor spend, allocations, rates, cost centers, purchase orders, and expected costs against approved budgets and forecasts.
- Coordinate and create purchase orders in Salesforce; track creation, approvals, remaining balances, and renewals.
- Ensure purchases align with approved budgets and appropriate cost centers, and maintain supporting records for technology purchases and commitments.
- Prepare CAPEX/OPEX reporting and cost data for Finance.
- Develop FinOps dashboards and reporting covering infrastructure/cloud spend, budgets, forecasts, savings, software/tool spend and renewals, contractor spend, and purchase orders and commitments.
- Support monthly infrastructure financial reviews and improve processes for cost ownership, forecasting, purchasing, and financial accountability.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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