Cloud FinOps Analyst
Seargin
Job Description
As a dynamic multinational tech company operating in 50 countries, we drive innovation and create projects that shape the future and greatly enhance the quality of life. You will find our solutions supporting advanced AI initiatives, financial analytics, and enterprise-scale digital transformation across global organisations.
About the role
The Cloud FinOps Analyst is responsible for managing, analyzing, and optimizing cloud and SaaS expenditures across Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, and other cloud platforms. This role serves as the bridge between Finance, Cloud Engineering, Platform Operations, Product Teams, Security, and Business Leadership to ensure cloud investments deliver maximum business value while maintaining financial accountability. The Cloud FinOps Analyst will develop cost transparency, forecasting, chargeback/showback processes, optimization recommendations, KPI reporting, and governance practices aligned with the FinOps Framework and organizational financial objectives.
Must-have Requirements
- Must have a high interest in AI skills (MS copilot, cowork, Copilot studio, AI assisted forecasting, etc.)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Cloudability, etc.
- Experience in implementing predictive analytics for cloud spend forecasting and budget planning
- Knows how to develop AI-driven models to analyze cloud spending patterns and identify optimization opportunities.
Responsibilities
-Responsible in cloud costs management and optimization, i.e.
- Analyze cloud usage and spend across accounts, subscriptions, and services
- Identify cost-saving opportunities (idle resources, overprovisioned services)
- Recommend and track savings plans, reserved instances, and commitments
- Partner with technology to right-size workloads, and all other best practices to optimize spending
- Visualization and reporting, create reports, dashboards, graphs, and other data visualizations to present findings in a clear and compelling way for product team, finance and technology management.
-Responsible in budgeting, forecasting, & financial planning, i.e.
- Create cloud budgets at team level, project, or product levels
- Forecast monthly/quarterly cloud spend based on usage trends
- Track actuals vs. forecast and explain variances
- Support annual and long-range financial planning for cloud investments
- Allocate cloud costs to teams, cost centers, projects, etc.
- Process invoice with associated chargeback/showback models to promote accountability
- Prepares and submit a journal entry during month end
- Reconciles spending between budget, forecast and actuals
-Cost governance including budgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, and modeling
-Reporting and insights on financial analysis and cost control strategies
-Prepare regular and ad-hoc data analysis and provides insight and recommendations
-Responsible in historical comparative analysis
-Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations via PBI
-Improved the efficiency of daily tasks and working files by integrating SQL and Power Query
To learn more about Seargin, please visit our web page: www.seargin.com
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