Lead Analyst Cloud Financial Operations

About the role

Empower’s vision is to transform financial lives by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We offer a flexible work environment, fluid career paths, and celebrate internal mobility. We value purpose, well-being, and work-life balance, and foster an inclusive environment where associates volunteer thousands of hours to causes they care about. Chart your own path while helping customers achieve financial freedom.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain financial reporting for enterprise data platforms, including budgets, expenses, forecasts, run rates, and other key cost metrics.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive inventory of platform expenses, cloud consumption, contracts, licenses, and upcoming vendor renewals to improve financial visibility and planning.
• Analyze actual spending against budget, identify variances and trends, and provide insights into the factors driving changes in platform costs.
• Monitor cloud and technology costs, with an initial focus on AWS, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce unnecessary spending, and better manage consumption.
• Gather and consolidate financial and usage information from multiple teams, systems, vendors, and stakeholders to develop a complete view of platform costs.
• Partner with technology leaders, application managers, procurement, vendor management, finance, and other stakeholders to validate assumptions, resolve data gaps, and support financial decisions.
• Develop spreadsheets, reports, dashboards, and financial models that make cloud and technology spending understandable and actionable for business and technology leaders.
• Support contract and license planning by monitoring renewal dates, current utilization, financial commitments, and anticipated future needs.
• Provide recommendations on opportunities to improve financial management, cost controls, budgeting processes, and overall platform economics.
• Expand financial reporting and analysis across additional data platform environments as the capability matures and broader organizational needs are incorporated.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of Cloud FinOps experience or experience supporting the financial management of cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or technology environments.
• Strong proficiency with Excel or similar spreadsheet tools, including the ability to organize, analyze, reconcile, and model financial information.
• Experience managing budgets, expenses, forecasts, run rates, contracts, or other financial and operational metrics.
• Familiarity with AWS or another major cloud platform such as Azure or Google Cloud, particularly cloud cost management, billing, or usage reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to combine information from multiple sources and identify trends, gaps, and opportunities.
• Ability to work collaboratively across technology, finance, procurement, vendor management, and leadership teams to collect information and support decisions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial information, cost trends, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, organize complex financial information, and establish repeatable processes in an evolving environment.
• Curiosity, attention to detail, and an interest in understanding the relationship between technology usage, business needs, and financial outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cost management, billing, Cost Explorer, or related cloud financial management capabilities.
• Financial analysis experience involving budgets, forecasting, variance analysis, scenario modeling, or technology spend.
• Experience with Snowflake costs, usage, or financial reporting.
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud cost management in addition to AWS.
• Experience managing or analyzing technology contracts, software licensing, vendor agreements, and renewal planning.
• Experience building financial dashboards, cost reporting, or executive-level reporting for technology organizations.
• Experience working in a large enterprise environment with multiple technology platforms, vendors, and stakeholder groups.
• FinOps, AWS, cloud cost management, or other relevant professional certification.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

Pay

Base Salary Range: $114,000.00 – $165,300.00

The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the listed location. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.