AI FinOps Analyst: Spend, Forecast & Value

DroneDeploy, Inc.; Texas; Remote; USD 130,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Procore is establishing an Enterprise AI Center of Excellence, seeking a Staff FinOps Analyst to make AI spend visible, predictable, and tied to value. You’ll define metrics, build forecasts, and partner across Finance, Procurement, and IT to drive actionable insights.

Based in Austin, TX, with openness to candidates nationwide, the role focuses on strategy and insights over pipelines, coordinating with Technology Operations and Data Engineering to translate numbers into leadership actions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in FinOps, IT finance, cloud cost management, or FP&A for technology spend.
• Experience managing consumption-based spend, such as cloud, data platforms, or AI
• Experience building forecasts, scenario models, and cost allocation or chargeback processes
• Clear communication with executives and Finance, and the ability to turn complex numbers into simple recommendations
• Experience partnering across finance, engineering, data, procurement, and business teams
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where none currently exists
• Bonus: FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps for AI certification, familiarity with AI token pricing and usage models, or experience with cost tools for Snowflake, Databricks, or AWS

Responsibilities

• Own the full picture of AI spend.
• Build the AI FinOps framework.
• Turn spend into insight.
• Forecast and plan.
• Build business cases.
• Monitor spend and explain variance.
• Build allocation and chargeback reporting.
• Recommend optimizations.
• Measure unit economics and value.
• Inform vendor and renewal strategy.
• Own the reporting requirements.

Skills

Forecasting & modeling

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Finance-business partner

FinOps knowledge

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Procore is establishing an Enterprise AI Center of Excellence, seeking a Staff FinOps Analyst to make AI spend visible, predictable, and tied to value. You’ll define metrics, build forecasts, and partner across Finance, Procurement, and IT to drive actionable insights.

Based in Austin, TX, with openness to candidates nationwide, the role focuses on strategy and insights over pipelines, coordinating with Technology Operations and Data Engineering to translate numbers into leadership actions.