Operations Cost Analyst

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Position: Operations Cost Analyst
The Data Center Engineering Ops team is looking to add a new addition on the Cost Analyst team. This role will be a hybrid of cost accounting and data scientist. Ideal candidate must have experience with data analytics and tools.
Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing Data Center and Carrier Expenses.
• Perform monthly Carrier and Data Center Expense analysis to support cost reduction initiatives.
• Evaluate and track Global Carrier rate plans, contracts, and inventory.
• Review invoices for abnormal usages, rate accuracy and determine course of action to remediate.
• Assist Lead/Senior Analysts to build COGS (cost of goods) Reports for Leadership.
• Support data collection and utilization to perform cost analysis of the Organization's operation.
• Support the monthly close and forecasting process by working closely with accounting in reconciling month-end close numbers with forecast, and continuously refining forecast variables.
• Collaborate with Zoom Account Payable and Finance Team to manage Purchase Orders, track and verify that products and services are received promptly and accurately and ensure timely payments are made to Vendors.
• Support rate comparison functions for Zoom Business Units.
• Support Data Center Project Management team with purchase order submittal.
• Assists in training and other team building efforts.
• Familiarity with Scripting such as R, Python, and SQL.
• Comfortable working with large data sets and extract raw data

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a major or emphasis in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, or related fields.
• 2-4 years of related experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Data Analysis.
• Experience developing business cases, financial forecasts, pricing analysis, and cost reduction initiatives using data analysis tools and applications.
• Experience driving business processes improvements through people, processes & systems.
• Ability to communicate business concepts to non-technical audiences and explain complex financial topics in a clear & concise manner.
• Ability to adapt to priority changes, significant ambiguity and perform under minimal supervision.
• Demonstrates working knowledge in Accounting and Finance.
• Proficient with Financial Applications (e.g. Oracle ERP), Google Workspace, Atlassian products (e.g. Jira, Confluence), and work management platforms (e.g. Asana).
• Must be detail oriented, display a high degree of professionalism and be able to meet established deadlines and deliverables.

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