Financial Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Experience in cloud expense management using the FinOps discipline.
• Familiarity with cost structure of AWS and Azure products and services.
• Strong ability to analyze and interpret data and provide insights.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, and experience presenting formally or informally.
• Microsoft office tools including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Cloud Practioner experience preferred.
• Real world experience with BI and/or cost tracking tools such as Tableau is preferred.
• FinOps or TBM certification is highly desirable.
• Tertiary education or experience in a Finance related discipline is recommended including budgeting and expense management.

Responsibilities

• Support consumers in understanding their cloud bills based on their business goals and budget.
• Provide summaries and detailed usage statistics for resources across public clouds, offering actionable intelligence to right-size and scale services efficiently.
• Identify and facilitate opportunities to optimize, reduce cost and plans to realize the savings.
• Build and maintain cloud usage visibility to proactively optimize workloads.
• Provide early intervention, management and advice to consumers of the services.
• Work closely with financial and billing teams on budget, forecast and expenses reports relating to hosting.
• Oversee the cloud Billing Dashboard, and manage the cloud Compute Savings Plan and Reserved Instance purchases.
• Create operational metrics to demonstrate costs and usage and assist with tracking with the necessary stakeholders.
• Lead regular cadence calls providing expert advice and consulting on cloud financial management activities.
• Configure and manage cloud cost optimization tools.
• Create and maintain internal documentation on FinOps and cost optimization processes and customer environments.