Financial Analyst

We are looking for an experienced Analyst to provide business and financial governance support for our Cloud Services, and to assist in managing the cloud spend and providing guidance on opportunities for cost optimization.

Key Responsibilities include:

• 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.

Skills:

• Experience in cloud expense management using the FinOps discipline.
• Familiarity with cost structure of AWS and Azure products and services
• AWS Cloud Practioner experience preferred.
• Real world experience with BI and/or cost tracking tools such as Tableau is preferred.
• Strong ability to analyze and interpret data and provide insights.
• FinOps or TBM certification is highly desirable.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, and experience presenting formally or informally.
• Microsoft office tools including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook
• Tertiary education or experience in a Finance related discipline is recommended including budgeting and expense management.