Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst

EchoStar • Littleton, CO

2d

About The Position

This role drives financial visibility, cloud governance, and unit cost optimization across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst serves as a strategic bridge between engineering, finance, and leadership, aligning technical roadmaps with corporate budgets and GAAP standards. The position uses automation and advanced data analysis to shorten close cycles, resolve spending anomalies, and establish a reliable source of truth for cloud asset allocations.

The role maintains cost allocations and tagging standards across multi-cloud and on-premises environments, delivers cloud spend forecasts and variance analyses, partners with technical teams on resource optimization, and manages spend reconciliation and month-end close processes. It also automates reporting and reconciliation workflows and applies AI tools to cost anomaly detection, forecasting, and data reconciliation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 4 years of experience in financial analysis.
• At least 2 years of experience supporting cloud or IT infrastructure spend in technology or telecom environments.
• At least 2 years of experience with cloud cost management platforms such as AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, CUR, or Harness.
• At least 2 years of experience with FinOps Practitioner standards and practices.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud-native cost management tools, cloud cost platforms, and core compute, storage, and containerization services.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, Power Query, MS Excel, and scripting languages such as Python for data analysis and automation.
• Solid understanding of GAAP principles, accrual accounting, prepaid amortization, and capital versus operating expense treatments.
• Expertise reconciling spending data across ERP, CPM, and asset management systems.
• Exceptional cross-functional communication skills for explaining technical consumption as financial insights to leadership.
• AI literacy and practical application skills for cloud cost forecasting, reporting efficiency, and anomaly identification.
• Willingness to participate in at least one in-person interview.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or MBA.
• FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst or TBM Council certification (CTBA).
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain TBM cost allocations and tagging standards across multi-cloud and on-premises infrastructure to ensure accurate team-level usage reporting.
• Deliver monthly cloud spend forecasts and variance analyses to support capacity planning and optimize usage commitments.
• Partner with DevOps and Engineering teams to identify idle resources, execute right-sizing strategies, and report realized savings.
• Reconcile vendor invoices and manage month-end close procedures, including accruals, prepaids, and discount verifications.
• Automate manual reporting, forecasting, and reconciliation workflows using SQL, scripting, and cloud management tools.
• Use AI tools to streamline cost anomaly detection, predictive forecasting, and automated data reconciliation.
• Reconcile spending data across ERP, CPM, and asset management systems to maintain a single source of truth.
• Translate usage-based technical consumption into clear financial insights for leadership.

Benefits

• Flexible spending accounts
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Career opportunities
• Flexible time away plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior