Cloud FinOps Analyst

Your Team

You will be part of the Global Cloud FinOps team, supporting the financial management and optimization of cloud services across the organization. As a Cloud FinOps Analyst, you will play a key role in driving cloud cost transparency, improving resource efficiency, and enabling data-driven decision-making. This position requires a strong interest in cloud technologies, financial analysis, and stakeholder collaboration.

Your key tasks

• Monitor cloud consumption, costs, and resource utilization across cloud environments. Analyze usage and spend patterns to identify optimization opportunities and cost-saving initiatives.
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of one or more major cloud platforms, with a solid understanding of cloud concepts such as compute, storage, networking, elasticity, tagging strategies, billing structures, pricing models, commitment-based discounts, and cloud cost management tools.
• Apply FinOps principles, including cost allocation, showback/chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, amortization, and unit cost analysis.
• Assist in the development, maintenance, and tracking of cloud budgets and forecasts, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, KPIs, and analytical models to provide visibility into cloud spending and support financial planning.
• Partner with engineering, product, operations, and finance teams to improve cost accountability and promote efficient cloud consumption practices.
• Support cloud governance initiatives by helping define and monitor tagging compliance, cost allocation structures, and financial controls.
• Communicate cost drivers, trends, risks, and optimization recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the evaluation and tracking of cloud savings initiatives, including rightsizing, resource optimization, and commitment-based savings programs.
• Stay current with cloud platform enhancements, pricing updates, FinOps best practices, and emerging industry trends.