Senior FinOps Analyst

About the Client

The organization operates in the cloud financial operations space, managing cloud costs and optimization across a large, multi-tenant AWS environment that includes commercial and government cloud accounts. It addresses challenges related to cost visibility, accountability, and optimization in complex cloud infrastructures supporting diverse teams.

About the Opportunity

The Senior FinOps Analyst is responsible for overseeing cloud financial operations to enhance cost transparency and efficiency. The role transforms cloud usage and spending data into actionable insights, enabling engineering and business teams to optimize expenses while maintaining system performance. It provides consolidated reporting and forecasting to key stakeholders, supporting informed decision-making and fiscal discipline.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud utilization data to identify resource right-sizing opportunities.
• Deliver prioritized cost-saving recommendations and collaborate with engineering teams to implement them.
• Identify and remediate idle or overprovisioned resources.
• Manage Reserved Instance and Savings Plan strategies.
• Optimize storage costs through lifecycle policies and tiering.
• Establish continuous cost optimization processes integrated into daily operations.
• Build and maintain consolidated monthly cloud cost reports and analyze spending trends.
• Design and manage cost chargeback and showback models with clear cost attribution.
• Implement and enforce cost-allocation tagging strategies.
• Develop executive dashboards and scorecards for cloud spending visibility.
• Perform root-cause analysis on cost anomalies and communicate findings.
• Support cost governance across multi-account AWS environments.
• Develop cloud spend forecasts and budget management tools.
• Model cost impacts of architectural changes and new workloads.
• Monitor budget utilization and recommend corrective actions.
• Support annual budget planning and business-case development.
• Configure AWS Budgets and Cost Anomaly Detection processes.
• Participate in architecture reviews providing financial guidance.
• Ensure compliance with financial policies and cloud governance frameworks.
• Collaborate across teams to align financial strategy and cloud spend accountability.
• Advance FinOps practices through training, playbooks, and process standardization.
• Automate cost analysis and reporting tasks with Python or SQL.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years experience, Master’s with 6 years, or High School diploma with 12 years.
• Minimum 5 years financial analysis experience; at least 3 years focused on AWS cloud cost management.
• Proven success in resource right-sizing with measurable cost outcomes.
• Experience producing consolidated cost reports, chargeback models, and fiscal projections.
• Participation in cloud architecture reviews providing cost estimates.
• Strong attention to detail in financial reporting and forecasting.
• Preferred certifications include FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Certified Professional, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.