FinOps & Infrastructure Financial Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Calculating and modeling cost savings across hardware, software, maintenance, and operations.
• Building and maintaining Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or other BI based financial models and dashboards.
• Developing financial structures and comparisons for CapEx and OpEx across cloud and on prem solutions.
• Constructing total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) models for virtualization platforms.
• Forecasting budgets for maintenance renewals, hardware refresh cycles, and multi year spending projections.
• Applying knowledge of VMware virtualization architecture to understand cost impacts of design decisions.
• Assessing storage, compute, and network virtualization factors — including dedupe, compression, and scalability — and quantify their cost implications.
• Translating technical cost savings data into clear, concise executive level summaries and recommendations.
• Evaluating vendor proposals, licensing models, and platform options for financial impacts and risks.
• Collaborating with PMO, engineering, procurement, and finance to ensure consistent financial assumptions and alignment with program goals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Ability to calculate and model cost savings across infrastructure components and operational domains.
• Proficiency with Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or other BI tools for modeling and data visualization.
• Strong understanding of CapEx vs. OpEx financial structures.
• Experience building TCO and ROI models for infrastructure and virtualization platforms.
• Experience with budget forecasting for maintenance renewals, lifecycle refreshes, and multi year projections.
• Familiarity with VMware virtualization architecture and cost related architectural considerations.
• Understanding of storage, compute, and network virtualization fundamentals and associated cost factors.
• Experience analyzing vendor proposals and licensing models.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to brief leadership clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud cost management or FinOps tooling.
• Familiarity with showback/chargeback models and tagging standards.
• Understanding of VMware licensing constructs and common technical configurations.
• Exposure to ITIL practices, PMO financial controls, or public sector procurement requirements.
• Experience working with or validating large datasets.
• Relevant certifications such as FinOps, VMware, BI tools, CPA/CFA/CFM.