Cloud FinOps Manager

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Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

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We are seeking a strong Cloud FinOps professional with experience in both Finance, cloud data and technical knowledge. A combination of the ability to understand numbers, analyze data and communicate effectively is critical for success in this role.

You will be responsible for understanding the data, combining various data and using them to gain financial and operational insights and then communicating the insights to various parts of the business. This requires comfort in deep diving into cost drivers and analyzing variance root causes. You will collaborate with our technology and business stakeholders to understand cloud consumption, drive continuous cost efficiencies and align cloud spending with business objectives. This will include monitoring cloud usage and spending data to identify cost -saving opportunities
You will work closely with the Data Science team to transform real-world data into valuable information that enables the business to optimally make data driven decisions. This is a phenomenal opportunity for an individual contributor who is passionate about making impact to the bottom line!
Responsibilities:
 

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with various infrastructure & Finance teams to analyze to understand cloud usage patterns and identify areas for cost efficiency .cloud costs, identify optimization opportunities, determine variance cause, and provide transparency into results.
• Serve as a strategic partner with stakeholders on cost initiatives and to align cloud strategy with broader financial goals.
• Partner with leaders across the business and tech organization to provide insightful analysis and influence around infrastructure costs. This includes modeling of costs and impact to Cost to serve (CTS) and margins.
• Foster a culture of cost accountability among teams by staying updated on Cloud's evolving service offerings, trends, pricing models, and driving implementation of FinOps best practices to enhance efficiency.
• Distribute FinOps processes to tech teams and Mentor others with suggested improvements to improve cost efficiency
• Drive and scale continuous cloud cost optimization by implementing frameworks, processes, and solutions

Cost management & efficiency:

• Day to day oversight of cloud Finops and management of Cloud budget.
• Analyze, report, and produce significant insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, etc; communicate the insights in a way that resonates with partners.
• Lead data analysis of cloud expenditure to identify trends, anomalies, unplanned spikes, and investigate root cause of variances while improving processes to prevent recurring issues.
• Prepare monthly Cloud Financial management reporting with key insights on consumption, show back, savings and assist with budget alignment across teams.
• Perform analysis to support initiative and decisions with adhoc financial modeling and analysis as needed
• Drive the cloud efficiency and optimization for savings and cost avoidances, Develop processes and reports to track and report key cloud efficiency information/metrics.
• Participate in application/ resource review to ensure adherence to cost savings wherever applicable.
• Provide expert knowledge on cloud cost optimization strategies (utilization, rightsizing, scheduling, modernization etc.) and collaborate with Engineering teams to implement solutions.

Reporting and Visibility:

• Provide timely and regular insightful reporting on costs and cost savings opportunities
• Provide strategic reports on business metrics (Cost to Serve, Unit costs, capacity usage, etc.) with recommendations that drive realization of cloud value
• Develop reporting to increase visibility - show back models, cost allocation process, unit cost analysis, cost drivers and by reducing Untagged / unattributed costs, and maintaining cloud optimization opportunity inventory to track impacts and metrics
• Work with internal automation teams to define workflows that allow teams to self-serve reporting, automating KPI reporting and recommend enhancements that simplify budget management processes

Planning and Forecasting:

• Partner with Finance team to create Budgets and to achieve financial goals.
• Build financial models for projecting cloud costs, ensuring accurate cost estimation, budgeting, forecasting and identification of savings opportunities.
• Partner with the Tech teams to understand their current cloud spend, and deliver accurate budgets and forecasts based on their business drivers and roadmap.
• Collaborate with capacity teams to develop cost models for new initiatives and influencing business decisions.
• Develop tools and processes for effective Budget operations.

Required Skills:

• A related technical degree required.
• 10+ years of proven financial analysis, reporting, modeling and forecasting experience
• Ability to use AI capabilities
• Demonstrated experience in driving cloud cost campaign programs, and influencing partners to take action.
• Ability to interpret and present data in a visually compelling format to financial and non-financial audiences
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to tell a story with numbers
• Data Analysis skills including queries and building cost forecast models
• Experience building and maintaining data visualizations using tools like Tableau
• Proven experience with data query tools and spreadsheet features to enhance financial analysis and automate repetitive tasks
• Experience with Public cloud financial tools and cost management such as AWS Cost explorer, AWS CUR
• Solid understanding of FinOps principles and standard processes

Desired Skills/Experience:

• SAAS experience
• Experience handling major cost-saving projects from inception through post-implementations
• FinOps certified practitioner
• AWS certification

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