FinOps Analyst

please send resumes to latha.menon(AT)marlabs.com

• 1 or 2 years of experience in FinOps
• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Finance or equivalent

• Cloud fundamental certification required – AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

• Analyze and forecast cloud services costs.
• Produce insightful reports that can be shared with and actioned by customers.
• Identify, recommend, and facilitate opportunities to optimize, reduce cost and plans to realize savings
• Manage inventory and make recommendations for AWS Compute Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
• Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, chargebacks, show back, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners
• Create and maintain monthly and quarterly reports.
• Support annual budget and forecast process for enterprise-wide cloud spend, including planning for commitment-based AWS savings and discount programs
• Provide summaries and detailed usage statistics for resources across public clouds, offering actionable intelligence to right-size and scale services efficiently
• Create operational metrics to demonstrate costs and usage and assist with continuous tracking
• Support consumers in understanding customer’s cloud bills based on their business goals and budget
• Lead regular cadence calls providing expert advice and consulting on cloud financial management activities
• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution
• Provide guidance to developers and application owners on best practices for reducing costs and optimizing consumption of cloud services
• Manage and support resource tagging policies , as well as process for governing and enforcing required tag
• Cloud FinOps knowledge to include knowledge of cost & usage data, and basic finance and accounting knowledge
• Familiarity with cost structure of AWS, Azure , and Google products and services
• Knowledge of financial principles and business analytics
• Ability to work with multiple internal teams to provide the best experience for our customers
• Understanding of applications development environments , database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints
• Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets \ Strong ability to analyze and interpret data and provide insights
• Experience with Cloud billing and cost management tools and processes
• Experience in cost management and optimization strategies such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment -based discount plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts , AWS Enterprise Discount and Private Pricing program(s) )
• Experience with 3rd party cloud cost transparency & optimization tools;
• Experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management, IT Finance) \ experience in cloud expense management using the FinOps /Cloud spend optimization discipline
• Familiarity with AWS invoicing process, Accounts Payable process, etc.
• General understanding of AWS Organizations and Consolidated Billing functions and features
• Familiarity with AWS Marketplace structure , offerings, and purpose