# FinOps Analyst
**Hyundai Capital America**

Irvine, CA | Full-time | Regular | Exempt | Hybrid (4 on-site days, 1 remote day per week)
**Posted Salary:** $100,000-$155,000

## About the Role
The FinOps Analyst will help establish and mature a Cloud and SaaS Financial Management practice across AWS, Google Dialog flow, OCI, and enterprise SaaS platforms including Splunk, Dynatrace, Cisco cloud services, Salesforce, and other subscription-based technologies. The role is focused on improving cost efficiency, governance, transparency, and alignment to business priorities as the organization migrates from on-premise data centers and operates in steady state.

This position partners closely with Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Procurement, Security, and Application teams. It turns usage data into financial insight, supports migration and modernization decisions, and helps ensure cloud and SaaS consumption is managed in a cost-effective and controlled way.

## Key Responsibilities
– Build and mature the FinOps operating model across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
– Define and maintain cost governance standards across AWS, GCP, OCI, and enterprise SaaS platforms.
– Partner with engineering and architecture teams to include cost considerations in design and migration decisions.
– Maintain FinOps playbooks, policies, dashboards, and operating procedures.
– Drive cloud cost optimization through right-sizing, capacity planning, and service tier selection.
– Manage SaaS spend optimization and track commitment and contract utilization.
– Establish tagging, metadata, allocation, and chargeback/showback standards.
– Build forecasting and reporting for migration waves, modernization initiatives, and steady-state growth.
– Provide executive reporting on spend, trends, savings realized, and optimization opportunities.
– Support financial controls, audits, and contract governance with Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Vendor Management.
– Enable engineering, operations, and application teams with cost-aware guidance.
– Collaborate with Procurement and Vendor Management on commercial agreements.

## Required Skills
– 5–7 years of related experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, or IT financial analysis.
– Hands-on experience with cloud cost reporting, allocation, and optimization in a large enterprise environment.
– Experience supporting data center exit and cloud migration programs.
– Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
– Strong knowledge of AWS billing, pricing models, and cost management tools such as Cost Explorer, Budgets, and CUR.
– Proven experience with tagging, chargeback/showback, and cost allocation models across cloud and SaaS ecosystems.
– Strong understanding of cloud migration financial impacts and hybrid cost models.
– Ability to translate technical cloud usage into financial insights for executive audiences.
– Demonstrated ownership of forecasting, governance, and optimization.
– Experience working with Finance, Procurement, Architecture, and Engineering teams.
– Strong analytical, reporting, and documentation skills.
– Excellent communication skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
– Strong understanding of multi-cloud financial models across AWS, GCP, and OCI.
– Experience managing SaaS cost governance for Splunk, Dynatrace, Cisco cloud services, Salesforce, and similar tools.
– Understanding of hybrid cost models spanning on-prem, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS subscriptions.

## Preferred Skills
– FinOps Foundation Practitioner or Professional certification.
– AWS Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification.
– ITIL Foundation certification.
– Experience in financial services, automotive finance, banking, or other regulated industries.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Amazon Web Services (AWS)
– Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
– Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

### Cloud Service Models
– IaaS
– PaaS
– SaaS

### Cloud Cost Management Tools
– AWS Cost Explorer
– AWS Budgets
– AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)

### SaaS / Enterprise Platforms
– Google Dialog flow
– Splunk
– Dynatrace
– Cisco cloud services
– Salesforce

## FinOps Responsibilities
– Build and evolve a FinOps operating model across cloud and SaaS environments.
– Set cost governance standards for cloud and SaaS platforms.
– Optimize spend through right-sizing, capacity planning, service tier selection, and commitment management.
– Track SaaS contract utilization and improve spend transparency.
– Establish tagging and metadata standards to support chargeback/showback.
– Build forecasting and reporting for migration, modernization, and steady-state growth.
– Translate consumption data into financial insight for Technology and Finance leadership.
– Support audits and financial controls tied to billing, subscriptions, and consumption.
– Improve financial governance maturity through process standardization.
– Enable cost-aware practices across engineering, operations, and application teams.

## Benefits
– Hybrid work schedule with 4 on-site days and 1 remote day per week.
– Vehicle benefits, including monthly allowances and purchase and lease discounts.
– Medical, dental, and vision coverage with no-cost and low-cost options.
– Annual employer HSA contribution.
– 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting.
– 100% company-paid life and disability insurance.
– No-cost wellbeing programs, including gym benefits and health resources.
– Generous parental leave.
– Paid Volunteer Time Off.
– Company donation to a charity of your choice.

## Useful Links
– LinkedIn Job Posting / Application: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4439532081

## Why You Might Be Interested
This role offers the chance to help build and run a FinOps function across cloud and SaaS environments with direct exposure to migration, governance, forecasting, and executive reporting. It involves close collaboration with Finance, Procurement, Security, Architecture, Engineering, and vendor teams, so the work spans both technical and financial decision-making. The posting includes a hybrid schedule and a salary range of $100,000 to $155,000. The benefits package also includes healthcare, retirement matching, paid volunteer time, and family support.