Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create dashboards for spend visibility categorized by product, product feature, tenant, and team.

• Collaborate with Engineering infrastructure and product teams to establish a tagging taxonomy, pinpoint tagging deficiencies, and enhance tagging for improved reporting.

• Make Cloud and AI spending billing data accessible in analytics and reporting tools, along with automated exports to Excel/Google Sheets and financial systems.

• Develop forecasting models for cloud spending that incorporate sales projections and product roadmap plans.

• Set up spend alerts based on established budgets and forecasts.

• Lead investigations into spending anomalies.

• Create capabilities to monitor the unit economics of the product portfolio.

• Work alongside product feature teams to enhance visibility on metrics such as cost per customer, per operation, per API request, and AI token usage rates.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience as a FinOps cloud spend analyst with a major cloud service provider.

• In-depth knowledge of cost and usage data along with SQL-based billing analysis, ideally on AWS.

• Proficient in exploratory data analysis using SQL.

• Ability to analyze and investigate large, complex billing datasets.

• Experienced in analyzing a cloud provider's billing data using SQL.

• Capable of independently investigating discrepancies, identifying cost drivers, and addressing inquiries regarding spending.

• Background in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS organization with a multi-tenant architecture.

• Understanding the challenges of attributing shared infrastructure costs to specific customers or product features.

• Proven experience in creating cost reports and dashboards for spend visibility.

• Familiarity with BI tools such as AWS QuickSight, GCP Data Studio, Tableau, Looker, or similar platforms.

• Proficient spreadsheet skills.

• Experience collaborating with Engineering on tagging and labeling, and enhancing cost visibility in development workflows.

• Knowledge of savings mechanisms in AWS/GCP/Azure.

• Excellent communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.