AI FinOps Lead: Cost Analytics & Automation

RELX INC; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Raleigh, NC is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to shape AI cost measurement, analysis, and optimization across the organization. You will own data, analytics, and reporting, partnering with engineering, product, and finance to improve visibility, forecasting, and cost efficiency.

Our operating model emphasizes enablement and credible, data-driven decisions. This role requires an automation-first mindset and strong storytelling with cost data for technical and

Qualifications

• Experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, data analytics, or related analytical roles.
• Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to explain methodology, assumptions, and results.
• Working knowledge of AI inference cost drivers, including tokens, context length, model tier, caching, retrieval patterns, and agentic workloads.
• Python experience building APIs, data pipelines, normalized datasets, and repeatable automation.
• Strong SQL skills and dashboard-building experience in Power BI or Tableau for technical and finance audiences.
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools such as Codex or Claude to accelerate analysis, automation, documentation, or pipeline work.
• Automation-first mindset focused on scalable reporting and reduced manual effort.
• Clear written communication that turns complex cost data into concise, actionable narratives.

Responsibilities

• Own AI cost modeling and attribution across tokens, models, products, teams, and shared infrastructure.
• Define unit-cost metrics that distinguish usage growth from efficiency changes.
• Maintain accurate, explainable cost data with clear lineage and defensible methodology.
• Build Python pipelines that normalize telemetry, provider API data, platform usage, and cloud billing into trusted datasets.
• Automate recurring reporting, month-end close support, and anomaly detection.
• Develop practical BI dashboards for engineering teams and credible reporting for Finance stakeholders.
• Analyze cost movements and explain drivers, expected impacts, and forward-looking implications.
• Identify, quantify, and track optimization opportunities across model selection, prompt efficiency, caching, batching, retrieval, commitments, and tooling overlap.

Skills

FinOps

Python

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

AI cost drivers

Automation mindset

Communication

Tools

APIs

Job description

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Raleigh, NC is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to shape AI cost measurement, analysis, and optimization across the organization. You will own data, analytics, and reporting, partnering with engineering, product, and finance to improve visibility, forecasting, and cost efficiency.

Our operating model emphasizes enablement and credible, data-driven decisions. This role requires an automation-first mindset and strong storytelling with cost data for technical and