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Cloud FinOps Analyst
Bloomfield, CT (Hybrid)
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As the Cloud FinOps Analyst, you will ensure that the Cloud Center of Enablement's cloud spending aligns with its business objectives, and that cross-functional teams work harmoniously to gain more financial control and predictability, reduce friction, and deliver products faster. This is achieved through financial cost analysis and reporting, developing a key of business-value metrics and KPIs, budgeting, promoting efficiency and optimization, and being an agent of continuous improvement. The function therefore requires a candidate with a strong understanding of financial services in conjunction with wide cloud technology exposure.
Responsibilities
- Cost accountability and enablement
- Establish governance and set standards for managing cloud spend
- Build foundation to enable the creation of cost allocation models that align cloud spend with functional ownership across the organization
- Measurement and realization
- Establish metrics and KPIs to measure success of transformation, starting with a set of cost-optimization metrics and eventually shift to unit economics / business value metrics such as cost per transaction or cost per customer serve
- Cost optimization
- Identify key cost-optimization drivers in an iterative and continuous process that provides a consistent methodology to manage cloud consumption in a most cost-effective manner
- Key areas of optimization: Resource optimization, Pricing optimization, Architecture optimization
- Planning and forecasting
- Plan and forecast cloud resources as part of project intake in partnership with engineering teams, to better understand the cost drivers, allocate spend, and benchmark efficiency
- Tools and accelerators
- Deploy cost-management tools to analyze real-time billing and cost data
- Developing a reporting dashboard to manage cloud spend and value tracking
- Implementing automation scripts to set account guardrails and budget alerts
Minimum Qualifications
- 2-4 years experience implementing the FinOps lifecycle – Inform, Optimize, Operate
- Experience with public cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Services, Oracle Cloud
- Experience with Cloud Management Platforms
- Experience building BI dashboards (e.g., Apptio, Tableau, Power BI…)
- Experience authoring SQL
- Excellent customer service, communication, and technical documentation skills in order to engage with internal customers
- Conceptual understanding GAAP reporting
- Experience with container technologies preferred
- FinOps specific certification and training (e.g., FinOps Foundation Practitioner/Professional) preferred
- Knowledge working in an Agile environment preferred
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