IT FinOps Analyst

This role leads portfolio-level cloud financial management, strategic cost optimization, and executive advisory for enterprise cloud spending. The position resides within the Portfolio function and holds primary responsibility for successful execution of a multi-disciplinary team under the "FinOps" framework. The role partners closely with Finance, IT leadership, and technology delivery and analytics teams to influence cloud investment decisions. This is a hands-on analytical role, deeply engaged in AWS and other cloud provider cost data, and works alongside other cloud professionals.

Own enterprise-wide cloud financial management, including cost transparency, accountability models, and optimization strategy.
• Develop and maintain multi-year cost optimization and savings plans, including reservations, savings plans, vendor commitments, and life-cycle management.
• Successfully balance flexibility, risk, and savings when recommending commitments
• Advise Finance and IT leadership on trade-offs between cost, risk, and performance.
• Lead forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario modeling for cloud spend.
• Integrate cloud costs into enterprise IT financial models, budgets, and forecasts.
• Maintain market intelligence, including cloud vendor pricing models, financial impact from their changes,

• Performs hands-on analysis of AWS cost and usage data using tools that include CloudHealth, Cost Explorer, CUR, and other FinOps tools
• Diagnose and explain spend variances, anomalies, and forecast deviations
• Lead root-cause analysis of unexpected cloud spend in partnership with engineering teams
• Own savings plans and reserved instance strategy, and perform break-even, utilization, and coverage analysis
• Translate architectural and operational decisions into financial impact.
• Develop KPIs translating engineering activity into financial outcomes
• Track efficiency trends and optimization velocity

• Serve as the primary and trusted financial advisor to IT and technology delivery and analytics leadership on cloud cost efficiency and investment decisions.
• Lead cross-functional discussions with technology delivery and analytics, Finance, vendors, and IT executives, and mediate tradeoffs and competing priorities.
• Present financial insights, cost narratives, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership with confidence and authority.
• Ensure adherence to internal financial controls, audit expectations, and compliance standards.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
• 4+ years of experience in cloud financial management or IT financial management, with demonstrated ownership of cloud cost strategy and outcomes.
• Hands-on experience analyzing AWS cloud cost and usage data, with the ability to explain cost drivers, variances, and optimization opportunities.
• Proven experience designing and managing cloud savings strategies, including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and vendor commitments.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, including forecasting, scenario analysis, and benefits realization tracking.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on cloud investment decisions, balancing cost, risk, and performance.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to influence outcomes across Finance, technology delivery and analytics, vendors, and IT leadership in a complex, fast-paced environment.

Salary Range: $104,000 - $141,000

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Financial offer within the stated range will be based on multiple factors to include but not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset.

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