Position Title: Cloud Financial Analyst
Overall Responsibility:
Manage and optimize the financial aspects of the customer's cloud operations.
Detailed responsibilities:
- Architectural Reviews & Cost Estimation: Participate in cloud architectural reviews to provide financial insights and prepare accurate cost estimates for cloud resources, ensuring alignment with budgetary constraints and business objectives.
- Detailed Monthly Reporting: Develop and deliver comprehensive monthly financial reports, detailing cloud expenditure, usage trends, and cost optimization opportunities.
- Chargeback Models: Design and implement chargeback models to allocate cloud costs to appropriate business units, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Fiscal Year Projections & Burndown: Create detailed fiscal year financial projections for cloud spending and maintain burndown charts to track budget utilization and forecast future needs.
- Cost Optimization: Identify opportunities for cost savings, recommend optimization strategies, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement cost-effective solutions.
- Financial Analysis: Conduct in-depth financial analysis of cloud spending patterns, providing insights to support strategic decision-making.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with finance, IT, and engineering teams to align cloud financial strategies with organizational goals.
- Policy & Compliance: Ensure compliance with financial policies, cloud governance frameworks, and industry best practices.
- Tool Utilization: Leverage cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Google Cloud Billing) and Microsoft Excel to monitor, analyze, and report on cloud expenditures.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- 5+ years of experience in financial or business analysis, with at least 3 years focused on cloud cost management.
- Proven experience in preparing cost estimates for cloud resources and participating in architectural reviews.
- Demonstrated ability to create chargeback models and fiscal year projections.
- Strong understanding of application architecture, design, and networking related to cloud hosted applications.
- Experience building and modifying complex Excel workbooks and formulas (experience with VBA is not required but understanding of scripting and object-oriented programming encouraged)
- Must be a US Citizen
- Much be able to obtain a Public Trust
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Google Cloud Billing).
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their pricing models.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial modeling tools.
- Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) for reporting purposes.
- Analytical Skills: Exceptional ability to analyze complex financial data, identify trends, and provide actionable recommendations.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to gather and present complex financial and technical information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally with finance, IT, and engineering teams.
- Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy in financial reporting and forecasting.
