# Senior FinOps Analyst

## About the Role

The Senior FinOps Analyst will help establish and run a comprehensive Cloud and SaaS Financial Management practice across HealthEdge’s multi-cloud and SaaS environment. This role supports the company’s ongoing migration from on-premises, Azure, and GCP environments toward AWS, while also helping manage steady-state cloud and SaaS operations after the transition.

This position works closely with Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Procurement, Security, product teams, and vendor partners. The goal is to improve cost efficiency, governance, transparency, forecasting, and accountability across cloud, SaaS, and AI platforms. The role sits at the intersection of finance and engineering and is expected to help turn billing and usage data into clear business decisions.

## Key Responsibilities

– Establish and mature the FinOps operating model across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
– Define and enforce cost governance standards across AWS, Azure, GCP, and enterprise SaaS platforms.
– Build and maintain cost visibility dashboards and reporting by product, feature, tenant/client, team, business unit, and environment.
– Deliver cloud cost reporting and ensure billing data is available in analytics and reporting tools, including automated export to finance systems.
– Develop unit economics capabilities such as cost per customer, per operation, per API request, and AI token usage.
– Create defensible allocation logic for shared infrastructure costs in a multi-tenant environment.
– Identify and quantify cost optimization opportunities across cloud vendors using cloud-native tools and Adaptive 6.
– Manage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed use discounts, including utilization tracking and purchase recommendations.
– Track SaaS contract utilization against commitments.
– Define spend alarms based on budgets and forecasts and lead anomaly investigations from detection through root cause and resolution.
– Build cloud and SaaS spend forecasts using sales forecasts, product roadmap plans, and migration or modernization waves.
– Support chargeback and showback with accurate, well-tagged cost data.
– Own the cloud tagging taxonomy and compliance program, including monitoring, enforcement, and remediation.
– Partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Vendor Management on financial controls and audit support.
– Administer and improve the FinOps tooling stack.
– Use AI tools to automate reporting, anomaly triage, and optimization analysis.
– Partner with engineering, platform leads, Finance, Procurement, and vendors on regular cost reviews and commercial agreements.

## Required Skills

– 5–7 years of 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.
– Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
– Strong familiarity with cloud cost and usage data and SQL-based billing analysis, preferably on AWS.
– Strong exploratory data analysis skills and the ability to investigate anomalies and answer ad hoc spend questions independently.
– Experience supporting data center exit and cloud migration programs.
– Understanding of the financial impacts of cloud migration and hybrid cost models across on-premises, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS subscriptions.
– Experience in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS company with a multi-tenant architecture.
– Experience attributing shared infrastructure costs to customers or product features.
– Proven experience building tagging, chargeback/showback, and cost allocation models across cloud and SaaS ecosystems.
– Experience using BI tools such as AWS QuickSight, Tableau, or Looker.
– Strong spreadsheet skills, including forecasting model development in Excel or Google Sheets.
– Knowledge of cloud billing, pricing models, and cost management tools.
– Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP savings mechanisms, including Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances.
– Demonstrated ownership of forecasting, governance, and optimization work.
– Experience with AI-assisted analysis or reporting workflows such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot.
– Familiarity with tracking AI/LLM token usage and spend as a cost category.
– Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate technical cloud usage into financial insight for executive audiences.
– Ability to influence without direct authority.
– Detail-oriented, self-directed, and curious about how engineering decisions affect cost.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Foundation Practitioner or Professional certification.
– AWS Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification.
– Experience writing SQL or using scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell to process cloud billing data at scale.
– Experience managing SaaS cost governance for enterprise platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Salesforce.
– Background in healthcare IT, health plan administration, financial services, or another regulated industry.
– Experience building a FinOps practice or chargeback program from the ground up.
– Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and how IaC pipelines relate to resource provisioning and cost attribution.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Azure
– GCP

### FinOps Platforms
– Adaptive 6
– AWS QuickSight
– Tableau
– Looker

### Programming Languages
– SQL
– Python
– PowerShell

### Collaboration Tools
– Excel
– Google Sheets

### AI Tools
– Claude
– ChatGPT
– Copilot

### FinOps and Cloud Cost Concepts
– Savings Plans
– Committed Use Discounts
– Reserved Instances
– Spot Instances
– Multi-tenant cost allocation
– Chargeback
– Showback
– Tagging taxonomy
– Unit economics
– Billing data export
– Anomaly detection
– Forecasting
– Cost governance

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Build and mature a FinOps operating model across cloud and SaaS environments.
– Improve cloud cost visibility and reporting across products, features, tenants, teams, business units, and environments.
– Support unit economics analysis and shared-cost attribution in a multi-tenant architecture.
– Identify cost optimization opportunities and manage rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, and service tier selection.
– Track and manage cloud commitments such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed use discounts.
– Monitor SaaS contract utilization against commitments.
– Set up spend alerts, investigate anomalies, and resolve unexpected cost changes.
– Build forecasts that align cloud and SaaS spend with sales, roadmap, and migration plans.
– Support chargeback and showback with accurate tagging and cost data.
– Own tagging standards and compliance.
– Support financial controls and audit readiness for cloud and SaaS spend.
– Improve FinOps tooling and automation, including AI-enabled workflows.

## Benefits

– Full-time, permanent employment
– Exempt classification
– Remote work within the United States
– Annual base salary range: $109,000 to $117,000
– Compensation may vary by career level and will be finalized during the interview process based on skills, experience, qualifications, and education

## Useful Links

– Company Website: https://www.HealthEdge.com
– Job Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4459883691
– Application Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4459883691

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to build and operate a FinOps function across a complex cloud and SaaS environment at a time of active modernization. It combines cloud cost management, financial analysis, governance, and cross-functional partnership in a newly formed function. The position also includes work on unit economics, chargeback/showback, forecasting, and AI-supported analysis, which may appeal to candidates who want broad ownership and measurable business impact. Remote work across the United States and a clearly defined salary range add further clarity for applicants evaluating the opportunity.