Financial Analyst IV Lead-

JOB Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide technical analysis of cloud spend per account/team/environment to understand trends, to inform budget planning and business decisions about technology spend
• Create cost estimates for applications running in the cloud, in partnership with technology owners and engineers.
• Lead conversations with Senior leadership on Cloud usage and forecasted expense.
• Identify and recommend potential cost optimization opportunities and partner with engineers to address.
• Provide financial oversight and management of cloud spend.
• Analyze financial data related to cloud spends and identify trends to inform business.
• Create and periodically refresh dashboards with OKRs regarding cloud spend.
• Analyze cloud spend data to provide recommendations for cloud optimization (such as rightsizing, power scheduling etc.) and calculate potential savings.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure implementation of cloud optimization strategies.
• Define framework and leading practices to determine financial accountability, transparency, and continuous optimization to maximize business value.
• Report Cloud Cost and consumption to Leadership, using Cloud Explorer and Global tools.
• Partner with 3rd party consultants and business units to optimize cost.
• Establish budgeting and forecasting processes including show back/chargeback mechanisms.
• Develops financial projections to support planning and investment decisions.
• Define standard policies around purchasing of cloud instances, cloud resource management policy and other standard cloud services.
• Continuously monitor overall cloud spend and automate cloud budgets and alerts based on tier-based actions.
• Ensure cloud spend optimization is a continuous process and is rooted in the culture.

Must-Have Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience
- FinOps proficiency
- Public cloud proficiency
- AWS budget and alert knowledge
- Cloud Optimization
- Technical/policy writing
- AWS services
- Cloud Cost Management
- Expense reporting

Plusses:
- Experience in FinOps
- Cloud Technical knowledge
- Bilingual in English/Spanish.