Description

Key Responsibilities

• Independently analyze cloud billing, usage and cost data to identify trends, anomalies and optimization opportunities.
• Assess FinOps maturity, reporting processes and the quality of cost data to prioritize improvements.
• Design a scalable FinOps operating framework covering visibility, accountability, governance and optimization.
• Develop cost-allocation and showback/chargeback methodologies across applications, products, business units, cost centers and environments.
• Define rules for allocating shared cloud-platform and enterprise-service costs and establish tagging and account hierarchy standards.
• Define KPIs for allocation coverage, forecast accuracy, budget variance, unit economics, utilization, waste and realized savings.
• Develop dashboards and executive-level reports for Finance, Engineering and business stakeholders using modern BI tools.
• Partner with application and engineering teams to investigate cost drivers and recommend optimization actions.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and cloud-cost reconciliation and document methodologies, assumptions and governance processes.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and translate financial insights for technical and nontechnical audiences.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of overall experience with 3+ years in Cloud FinOps or cloud cost management preferred.
• Strong experience with FinOps practices, cloud financial management and cost-allocation/showback or chargeback methodologies.
• Hands-on cloud cost analysis across AWS and Azure; GCP experience preferred.
• Proven understanding of FinOps frameworks, KPI development, unit economics and benchmarking.
• Advanced Excel and SQL skills; experience with cloud billing exports and reconciliation.
• Experience building dashboards and reports in Power BI, Tableau or Looker; familiarity with Looker or similar tools is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, presentation and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to work independently and convert incomplete data into actionable recommendations

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree