Senior FinOps Analyst

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Bogotá ciudad; Remote; COP 291.281.000 - 420.739.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering and R&D on cloud spending, investigate cost anomalies, and identify optimization opportunities.

You will serve as a primary partner-facing resource for APAC-based teams, helping align cloud spending with forecasts and measurable business outcomes through cost analysis, education, and proactive engagement. Enterprise experience is strongly preferred and you will work across Jira, Slack, and Showback reporting to drive

Qualifikationen

• Senior-level FinOps experience
• Strong cloud cost management expertise
• Proven ability to investigate spending anomalies and document root-cause analyses
• Experience advising R&D or engineering teams in a partner-facing role
• Experience with cloud cost forecasting and aligning forecasts with team projections
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring
• Experience with cost modeling and tracking investments/projects
• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time support
• Experience maintaining technical documentation and recurring reporting (Showback)
• Strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder engagement

Aufgaben

• Serve as a primary contact for engineering teams seeking cloud cost guidance.
• Review monthly cloud spending and identify optimization opportunities.
• Document investigations and flag findings for monthly reporting.
• Monitor cloud/AI/LLM spending for anomalies and inefficiencies.
• Contribute insights to Showback reporting and spending reviews.
• Support cloud cost awareness and education across teams.
• Audit and update technical wiki content and documentation.

Kenntnisse

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Spending anomaly analysis

Partner-facing consulting

Forecasting

LLM cost drivers

Cost modeling

Jira

Slack

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Jira

Slack

OpenAI/LLM cost drivers

Jobbeschreibung

We are seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering and R&D teams on cloud spending, investigate cost anomalies, and identify actionable optimization opportunities.

In this role, you will serve as a primary partner-facing resource for APAC-based teams, helping align cloud spending with forecasts and measurable business outcomes through cost analysis, education, and proactive engagement.

Enterprise experience is strongly preferred.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary contact for engineering teams seeking cloud cost guidance, responding to questions in real time through Slack and other asynchronous channels.
• Proactively engage with high-spending R&D teams to:
  • Review monthly cloud spending.
  • Identify cost optimization opportunities.
  • Understand upcoming engineering roadmap plans and their potential cost implications.
• Capture meeting notes, recommendations, recurring questions, and emerging cost patterns.
• Monitor cloud and AI/LLM spending for anomalies, spikes, and inefficiencies.
• Investigate spending variances, produce written root-cause analyses, and recommend optimization opportunities to team owners.
• Document investigations in Jira and flag relevant findings for monthly reporting.
• Participate in monthly forecasting by:
  • Reconciling central forecasts with team-level projections.
  • Documenting discrepancies.
  • Capturing team plans and anticipated spending.
• Contribute practitioner insights and team-sourced information, including AI/LLM cost drivers, to Showback reporting and spending reviews.
• Support cloud cost awareness and education across engineering and R&D teams.
• Audit and update technical wiki content and documentation.
• Model team cost projections and track team investments and projects.
• Respond to cost-related requests through Slack, email, and other communication channels.
• Focus on advisory and analytical delivery. Central budget ownership, vendor contract modeling, and platform/tooling engineering are outside the scope of this engagement.

Qualifications

Must-Have Skills

• Senior-level experience in FinOps (cloud financial operations).
• Strong expertise in cloud cost management and optimization.
• Proven ability to investigate spending anomalies and produce clear, written root-cause analyses.
• Experience advising and consulting directly with R&D or engineering teams in a partner-facing capacity.
• Experience with cloud cost forecasting, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring LLM spending.
• Experience with cost modeling and tracking team investments or projects.
• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time and asynchronous support.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation or wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting, such as Showback.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders and communicate findings effectively.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• AI/LLM governance expertise.

Required Tools & Platforms

• Jira and Slack.
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and LLM spend monitoring.
• Experience working with technical documentation and wiki spaces; no specific wiki platform is required.

Location, Time & Engagement

• Open to candidates based in eligible LATAM locations or the United States.
• Ability to cover APAC business hours, with some overlap with Pacific Time and the afternoon in Central Time.