# About the Role

Based in Hyderabad and reporting to the Senior Manager – Cloud & FinOps, this role supports cloud financial operations, cost optimization, billing governance, reporting, and customer advisory. The position exists to improve visibility into cloud spend, utilization, profitability, and optimization opportunities.

You will work closely with Customers, Finance, Billing, Sales, and Cloud Operations to turn cloud usage data into actionable financial and operational insight. The role combines technical analysis, reporting, forecasting, and stakeholder management.

The posting describes the ideal candidate as a Cloud FinOps professional with 2–3 years of experience who can work directly with customers and Finance teams.

# Key Responsibilities

– Analyze AWS consumption, utilization, and billing trends.
– Identify cost optimization opportunities, savings recommendations, and rightsizing actions.
– Monitor cloud spend, support budget governance, and maintain accurate billing and consumption data.
– Partner with customers to review spend, utilization, and optimization opportunities.
– Work with Finance and Billing on invoice validation, billing governance, profitability analysis, and dispute resolution.
– Support monthly business reviews and customer reporting.
– Build and maintain customer-facing and internal dashboards and reports covering spend, utilization, optimization, margin, budget vs actual, and forecast vs actual.
– Automate reporting wherever possible.
– Analyze AWS workloads and resource usage across EC2, RDS, S3, EKS/ECS, and networking services.
– Build forecasting models, perform trend and variance analysis, and support planning and budgeting.
– Use Python, SQL, and PowerShell to automate reporting and analytics.
– Support anomaly detection and AI-enabled reporting initiatives.
– Generate insights from large datasets and communicate them clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

# Required Skills

– Basic understanding of AWS cloud services and billing models.
– Knowledge of cloud cost management and optimization concepts.
– Understanding of AWS pricing and consumption behavior.
– Experience with AWS EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS, networking services, and AWS Organizations at a basic level.
– Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
– Power BI experience.
– Data analysis, visualization, and dashboard development skills.
– Python, SQL, and PowerShell.
– Strong communication skills.
– Customer-facing experience.
– Ability to explain cloud cost data to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

# Preferred Skills

– FinOps Certified Practitioner.
– AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.
– AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification.
– Exposure to Azure and GCP.
– Familiarity with AI/ML-based analytics and anomaly detection.
– Knowledge of cloud governance and tagging practices.
– Experience with QuickSight, Tableau, or similar BI tools.

# Cloud Platforms & Technologies

## Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Azure
– GCP

## AWS Services
– EC2
– RDS
– S3
– ECS
– EKS
– AWS Networking Services
– AWS Organizations

## FinOps & Cost Management Tools
– AWS Cost Explorer
– AWS Budgets
– AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR)

## Reporting & BI
– Microsoft Excel
– Power BI
– Amazon QuickSight
– Tableau

## Programming / Scripting
– Python
– SQL
– PowerShell

# FinOps Responsibilities

– Improve cloud cost transparency and financial accountability.
– Produce monthly dashboards and cost reports.
– Build forecasting and spend analysis models.
– Support customer onboarding and FinOps governance.
– Monitor usage trends and identify optimization opportunities.
– Support budget monitoring, spend reviews, and anomaly detection.
– Partner with Finance teams on billing governance and margin analysis.
– Provide recommendations to improve cloud efficiency and reduce waste.
– Promote FinOps best practices and cloud financial awareness across stakeholders.

# Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers direct exposure to cloud financial operations, cost optimization, and customer advisory work. It combines AWS analysis with reporting, forecasting, and automation using Python, SQL, PowerShell, Power BI, and Excel. You will collaborate with Finance, Billing, Sales, Cloud Operations, and customers, giving the role both technical depth and business visibility. It also provides scope to grow within a broader FinOps and Cloud Financial Management function.