FinOps Analyst

Business Needs Inc; California; A distancia; USD 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Indeed is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise on cloud spending and drive optimization with APAC-based R&D teams. The role focuses on real-time guidance, anomaly investigations, and engagement with top-spending orgs to keep costs in line with forecasts.

The candidate will support cost awareness, showback reporting, and maintain the Cloud Economics wiki, while ensuring cross-team collaboration and transparent cost governance across remote teams.

Formación

• Senior FinOps experience with cloud spend management.
• Ability to investigate spend anomalies and provide root-cause analyses.
• Experience advising engineering/R&D teams on cloud cost.
• Forecasting central vs team-level spend forecasts.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as primary contact for R&D teams seeking cloud cost guidance via Slack and other channels.
• Review monthly cloud spending with APAC-based colleagues; surface cost opportunities and document summaries.
• Monitor cloud/AI/LLM spend for anomalies; perform investigations and produce root-cause analyses.
• Participate in monthly MICRO forecasting; align forecasts with team projections.
• Contribute to showback reporting and cost awareness initiatives.
• Audit and update the Cloud Economics wiki space and related docs.

Conocimientos

Senior FinOps experience

Cloud cost optimization

Spend anomaly investigations

Partner-facing advisory

Cost forecasting

OpenAI/LLM cost drivers

Cost modeling

Jira documentation

Slack real-time support

Documentation/wiki upkeep

Strong communication

Herramientas

Jira

Slack

Descripción del empleo

Company:
Indeed

Location:
Remote

Pay:
Open

Position:
FinOps Analyst

Job Description:
The Cloud Economics team partners with R&D organizations across Indeed to advise on cloud spending and drive optimization. This engagement brings on a Senior FinOps Analyst as the team's primary partner-facing resource with APAC-based large-spending R&D teams and outreach. The analyst provides real-time advisory support, investigates spend anomalies, and drives engagement with top-spending R&D orgs to keep quarterly cloud costs within an acceptable variance of forecast - directly supporting Indeed's FY26 cost-effectiveness goals and the objective of tying half of cloud spend to measurable business outcomes by March 31, 2027. The role also spans Cloud Economics Cost Awareness and Cost Education, auditing and updating the Cloud Economics wiki space, and modeling team cost projections and investment tracking; it does not include owning the MACRO budget process, vendor contract modeling, or platform/tooling engineering work, which remain with Cloud Economics full-time employees.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for R&D teams seeking cloud cost guidance, triaging and answering inbound questions in real time via the team's Slack channel and other asynchronous channels.
• Conduct proactive, consultative engagement with key spending teams, especially APAC-based Indeed colleagues - to review monthly cloud spending, surface actionable cost opportunities, and understand upcoming engineering roadmap delivery plans before they become budget surprises; capture meeting notes and summaries with recommendations on top recurring questions and emerging cost patterns.
• Proactively monitor cloud and AI/LLM spend for anomalies, cost spikes, and inefficiency patterns; conduct structured investigations into flagged variances, produce written root-cause analyses, and deliver actionable optimization recommendations to team owners, documenting the work on Jira tickets and flagging items for the monthly reporting.
• Participate in the monthly MICRO forecasting cycle, engaging directly with assigned R&D teams to align Cloud Economics' central forecasts with team-level projections, surface discrepancies, and document team plans and intent for upcoming spend; produce monthly forecast engagement notes per assigned team cohort.
• Contribute a FinOps practitioner perspective and team-sourced information, including AI/LLM cost drivers, to showback reporting and top spending R&D team meetings, maintaining an understanding of cost drivers.
• Support Cloud Economics Cost Awareness and Cost Education efforts, and audit and update the Cloud Economics space on the wiki.
• Model team cost projections and respond to customer help requests via Slack, email, and other channels.

Must-Have Skills:

• Senior-level FinOps (cloud financial operations) experience.
• Strong cloud cost management and optimization expertise.
• Proven ability to investigate spend anomalies and produce written root-cause analyses.
• Experience serving as a partner-facing resource, advising and consulting directly with R&D/engineering teams.
• Cloud cost forecasting experience, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring LLM spend.
• Cost modeling and team investment/project tracking.
• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time, asynchronous support.
• Experience in maintaining technical documentation/wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting, such as Showback.
• Strong written and verbal communication for stakeholder engagement and reporting.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• AI/LLM governance expertise.
• AI/LLM variable cost management expertise.