Job Description

Senior FinOps Analyst
Role Overview:
As a FinOps Cloud Analyst, you will play a key role in bridging financial and technical perspectives, transforming raw cloud usage and cost data into actionable insights for cost optimization and governance. Working closely with the FinOps Cloud Engineer, Finance, and Business IT stakeholders, your mission is to establish transparency, improve forecasting accuracy, and drive financial accountability across cloud consumption. This is a data-driven, analytical role, ideal for someone passionate about cloud economics, cost attribution, and cross-functional impact.
Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Spend Monitoring & Analysis
• Forecasting & Budgeting Support
• Cost Attribution & Tagging Quality
• Stakeholder Reporting & Support
• Analyze multi-cloud usage and spend data using Cloudability, GCP Billing, Azure Cost Management, and AWS Cost Explorer.
• Monitor key financial KPIs: budget adherence, unallocated costs, variance between forecast and actuals.
• Identify cost anomalies, trends, and inefficiencies at service, project, or business line level.
• Support Finance in monthly and quarterly budget reviews
• Reconcile approved budgets with actual spend from SAP
• Compare forecasting figures across SAP and Cloudability
• Build and refine cloud spend forecasts per area (BAU vs. Change) and support predictive insights.
• Improve the accuracy of cost allocation across teams, products, and environments.
• Perform gap analysis on tagging coverage and work with engineering to close gaps.
• Support the implementation of business mapping rules and labeling, Taging strategies for more granular visibility.
• Create executive-ready dashboards and reports tailored to Business Line Heads and Finance.
• Prepare presentation materials for the JF stakeholder rounds
• Regularly participate in JF stakeholder rounds to:
• Present monthly spend, anomalies, and savings progress
• Track action items and follow up on ownership
• Engage with resource owners for clarification and accountability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with IT Finance, Business IT, Engineering, and Procurement

Key Qualifications & Experience:

• 35 years of experience in Cloud Finance, FP&A, CloudOps, or Cloud Business Management roles.
• Strong understanding of cloud pricing, billing models, and services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Cloudability (cloud cost management platform).
• Excellent Excel, Power BI and data visualization skills.
• Experience working with large datasets; SQL or scripting (Python) is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud tagging best practices and organizational hierarchies in cloud providers.
• Exposure to SAP financial reporting tools or other ERP systems, AFO
• Understanding of Dev/Test/Prod cloud environment lifecycle and capital vs. operational expense treatment.
• Knowledge of Anomaly Detection logic and cost optimization levers
• FinOps Practitioner certification is a plus.

Key Success Metrics:

• % of cloud spend correctly attributed (tagged or mapped)
• Forecast accuracy vs. actuals per business unit
• Nr. of actionable insights or reports delivered per quarter
• % of anomalies validated and assigned to owners within agreed SLAs
• Stakeholder satisfaction / feedback on reporting clarity