## About the Role

We are seeking a Mid-Level FinOps Analyst to join the Cloud Governance and Efficiency team. This role sits at the intersection of Technology, Finance, and Business, with responsibility for improving financial management across cloud environments.

The main objective is to support operational efficiency, cost optimization, and financial predictability in a multi-cloud environment. The position also contributes to increasing the organization’s FinOps maturity through governance, automation, observability, and continuous optimization.

The role works closely with architects, SREs, engineering teams, and stakeholders from technical, financial, and executive areas.

## Key Responsibilities

– Monitor cloud costs across multi-cloud environments.
– Identify usage deviations, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.
– Build cost, consumption, trend, budget, and forecast analyses to support decision-making.
– Support cloud budget planning and forecast tracking.
– Find and track savings opportunities through rightsizing, idle resource reduction, scheduled shutdowns, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and storage/network optimization.
– Track cost avoidance and cost savings indicators.
– Define, implement, and maintain financial governance policies for cloud environments.
– Create and audit tagging strategies for accurate cost allocation.
– Support chargeback and showback processes across products, projects, and business areas.
– Define KPIs to track FinOps maturity.
– Build executive and operational dashboards for cloud cost monitoring.
– Develop financial indicators for executive, technology, and business audiences.
– Produce recurring reports on consumption, budget, optimization, and financial forecasts.
– Promote FinOps best practices with technical teams.
– Support architects, SREs, and engineering teams in building financially efficient solutions.
– Use observability tools to identify infrastructure optimization opportunities.
– Correlate technical metrics with financial impact.
– Support automation initiatives focused on operational efficiency.

## Required Skills

– Solid experience in FinOps, Cloud Financial Management, or cloud cost management.
– Knowledge of multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
– Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and financial governance strategies.
– Strong analytical ability to interpret financial and technical indicators.
– Excellent communication skills for interaction with technical, financial, and executive audiences.
– Analytical, data-driven profile.
– Business-oriented mindset focused on value generation.
– Organization and attention to detail.
– Clear communication with both technical and executive stakeholders.
– Proactivity in identifying improvement opportunities.
– Ability to work collaboratively across Technology, Finance, and Business.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Foundation certifications.
– AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certifications.
– Knowledge of Kubernetes and containers.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Amazon Web Services (AWS)
– Microsoft Azure
– Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

### FinOps / Cloud Management Platforms
– IBM Apptio
– ApptioOne
– IBM Cloudability
– IBM Kubecost
– IBM Targetprocess
– IBM Turbonomic

### Observability
– IBM Instana

### Containers & Kubernetes
– Kubernetes
– Containers

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Monitor and analyze cloud spending across multi-cloud environments.
– Identify cost anomalies, overspend, and optimization opportunities.
– Support budgeting and forecasting for cloud spend.
– Improve cost efficiency through rightsizing, idle resource reduction, scheduled shutdowns, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and storage/network optimization.
– Track Cost Avoidance and Cost Savings metrics.
– Define and maintain cloud financial governance policies.
– Build and audit tagging strategies for cost allocation.
– Support chargeback and showback processes.
– Define KPIs to measure FinOps maturity.
– Create dashboards and reports for consumption, budget, optimization, and forecasts.
– Promote FinOps best practices across technical teams.
– Help engineering teams design cost-efficient solutions.
– Use observability data to link technical performance with financial impact.
– Support automation efforts that improve operational efficiency.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to work at the center of cloud finance, governance, and operational efficiency. It combines multi-cloud cost management with reporting, automation, and observability, making it suitable for professionals who want to influence financial decisions through data. You will collaborate with technology, finance, and business teams while contributing to the organization’s FinOps maturity. The position is well suited to someone who wants to move beyond cost analysis and act as a strategic partner.