Cloud Financial Operations Analyst

Job Description

Cloud FinOps Analyst

JOB SUMMARY:

Support ACI's global multi-cloud budget and forecast process in managing consumption, chargebacks, showback, and savings in collaboration with corporate accounting, finance, and technical owners. Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap, technical needs and budgeted forecast. This role will also proactively recommend techniques to optimize cloud instances and eliminate unnecessary spend to various business application teams. You will be responsible for integrating FinOps tools, creating reusable design patterns and code modules to support optimization and Cloud Finance Management (CFM) policies at a global enterprise level.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Continuously capture, analyze and present costs, utilization, waste & potential saving
• Drive cloud cost optimization through discovery, development, and sharing of cost-saving opportunities.
• Translate financial insights into actionable recommendations, promoting cost-aware architecture design, and leveraging code to automate resource optimization.
• Responsible for integrating FinOps tools, creating reusable design patterns and code modules to support optimization and Cloud Finance Management (CFM) policies.
• Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, chargebacks, show back, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners
• Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools
• Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the multi cloud landscape.

Requirements:

Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, IT or analytics

A minimum of 5 years of overall professional experience; Financial Analyst and/or Business Analyst

A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps/Cloud spend optimization

Experience in sourcing of public cloud services

Knowledge of cloud cost products (e.g., Cost Explorer, Azure Portal)

Strong understanding of public cloud players (Azure), their product portfolio

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About Us

ACI Worldwide is a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software. Our proven, secure and scalable software solutions enable leading corporations, fintechs and financial disruptors to process and manage digital payments, power omni-commerce payments, present and process bill payments, and manage fraud and risk. We combine our global footprint with a local presence to drive the real-time digital transformation of payments and commerce.