o9 Solutions-posted 6 days ago
$141,494 - $194,555/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Dallas, TX
1,001-5,000 employees

Transforming the Future of Enterprise Planning At o9, our mission is to be the Most Value-Creating Platform for enterprises by transforming decision-making through our AI-first approach. By integrating siloed planning capabilities and capturing millions—even billions—in value leakage, we help businesses plan smarter and faster. This not only enhances operational efficiency but also reduces waste, leading to better outcomes for both businesses and the planet. Global leaders like Google, PepsiCo, Walmart, T-Mobile, AB InBev, and Starbucks trust o9 to optimize their supply chains. Sr. Finance Manager - Cloud Cost Optimization At o9, we invest in people. We seek talented, driven individuals to power our transformative approach. You’ll thrive in a dynamic, supportive environment, growing while making a real impact. In this role, as a part of the Strategic Finance team, you will own all cloud financials for the purpose of budgeting, forecasting, analyzing and the creation of strategies around cloud cost optimization and Go To Market activities by closely working with relevant internal stakeholders such as FinOps team, R&D team, Sales, etc. as well as with external stakeholders such as AWS, Azure and GCP. This is a high visibility role wherein you will contribute to the budgeting and strategic planning process, related to the cloud cost management as well as directly impact our overall profitability.

  • Cross-functionally partner with Cloud and Commercial leadership and respective operational teams throughout o9’s annual and strategic planning processes to develop relevant roadmaps, execution plans, and key metrics in service of measuring success against the company’s key short- and long-term financial and operational targets
  • Monitor the financial and business KPIs regularly, highlight trends across cloud spend analysis, capacity utilization, budget vs actual, etc. and conduct the root cause and variance analysis
  • Apply Financial and data modeling experience, assist with cost reduction activities, cost allocation methodologies across the products, and contribute to forecasting of monthly and quarterly costs
  • Drive analysis to improve hosting estimates for new business and evaluate pricing structures with Commercial leadership to simplify the sales and contracting process
  • Analyze & develop recommendations to improve margins of our SaaS offerings
  • Partner with the FinOps team to maintain a fully cost-allocated environment by ensuring that all resources are identified properly and costs are allocated to the respective business units.
  • Work closely with R&D / DevOps, Finance to define the best practices and governance structures for cloud cost optimization
  • Education: MBA from Tier I B-schools with ~6-8 years of experience in FinOps, Cloud cost optimization, FP&A or related areas in the reputed organizations.
  • Self-starter with strong investigative mindset and critical thinking to develop deep understanding of technology and business processes to seek out opportunities to improve critical KPIs
  • Hands-on experience on the cost optimization tools provided from AWS / Azure / GCP highly preferred
  • Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, various cost drivers, billing and metering on cloud platforms
  • Mastery of MS Excel/PowerPoint, Google sheets/slides and history of creating and maintaining complex driver based financial models and data sets
  • Ability to collaborate and work constructively with other cross-functional teams.
  • Good verbal & written communication
  • Excellent organizational & teamwork skills
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