FinOps Analyst 2

WEX, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

HSA/FSA

Job summary

WEX is expanding its FinOps practice and seeks a FinOps Analyst to turn cloud billing and usage data into actionable insights for engineering, finance, and business leaders.

You'll own monthly cost reports, ad-hoc analyses, and optimization recommendations, using FinOpsly and Excel/Sheets to drive accountability and smarter cloud spending across the organization.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in financial analysis, business analysis, data analysis, or cloud operations.
• Advanced proficiency with Google Sheets and/or Excel—pivot tables, lookups, conditioning, reusable templates.
• Ability to translate large, messy datasets into clear summaries and recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication for both engineering teams and finance leaders.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and managing multiple ad-hoc requests plus recurring deliverables.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, Economics, Data Analytics, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Cost reporting & analysis: monthly reports, trends, and variance vs. plan for stakeholders.
• Ad-hoc cost analysis: answer questions from owners, architects, and finance partners.
• Optimization recommendations: surface opportunities like rightsizing, idle resources, and storage tiering.
• Commitment & reservation management: track Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and realized savings.
• Anomaly detection & tracking: monitor spend, investigate root causes, and drive resolution.
• Budget maintenance: update budgets, forecasts, and cost allocation structures.
• Tooling administration: manage FinOpsly platform—users, mappings, dashboards, alerts.
• Stakeholder engagement: build relationships and socialize spend recommendations.

Skills

Google Sheets/Excel

Data analysis

Communication skills

Ambiguity tolerance

SQL/Python basics

FinOps/Cloud cost

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Cloud cost tools

Job description

About the Role

WEX is expanding its FinOps practice, and we're looking for a FinOps Analyst to help bring financial accountability and transparency to our cloud spend. FinOps at WEX is both a practice and a cultural shift in the way we monitor the cloud from a financial perspective - it sits at the intersection of engineering, finance, and business strategy.

In this role, you'll be the connective tissue between the engineers who build in the cloud and the finance partners who fund it. You'll turn raw billing and usage data into clear, actionable insight that helps teams make better decisions about what they deploy, how they size it, and what it costs the business.

A full command of cloud architecture is not a prerequisite - though it's strongly encouraged and you'll grow into it here. What matters most is that you can interpret invoices and usage data, spot the story inside a spreadsheet, and communicate it credibly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

How you'll make an impact

The core component of this role is preparing financial and usage data for key stakeholders across the organization via iterative and ad-hoc delivery. This is done primarily through our cloud cost optimization and resource management platform, FinOpsly (accessed via MyApps Okta), alongside internal solutions built in Google Sheets and Excel.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Cost reporting & analysis - Prepare recurring monthly reports and slide decks summarizing cloud spend, trends, and variance against plan for engineering, finance, and executive stakeholders.
• Ad-hoc cost analysis - Respond to targeted questions from application owners, architects, and finance partners about specific workloads, accounts, services, or business units.
• Optimization recommendations - Surface and package optimization opportunities for engineering teams, including auto-generated recommendations from FinOpsly as well as your own analysis (rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage tiering, license rationalization).
• Commitment & reservation management - Support the reservation of resources (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, committed-use discounts) to cover consistent production workloads, and track realized savings and coverage/utilization rates.
• Anomaly detection & tracking - Monitor for anomalous spend, investigate root cause, route findings to the responsible owner, and track issues through to resolution.
• Budget maintenance - Update and maintain cloud budgets, forecasts, and cost allocation structures as the environment and organizational mapping evolve.
• Tooling administration - Administer the FinOpsly platform, including user access, business mappings, dimensions, views, dashboards, and alert configuration.
• Stakeholder engagement - Attend and facilitate recurring meetings with account administrators and financial owners to review spend, socialize recommendations, and drive accountability for all of the above.
• Tagging & allocation hygiene - Partner with engineering teams to improve tagging compliance and cost allocation accuracy, including for shared services and SaaS spend.

Experience you'll bring

• 2+ years of experience in a financial analysis, business analysis, data analysis, or cloud operations role
• Advanced proficiency with Google Sheets and/or Microsoft Excel - pivot tables, lookups, conditional logic, and building reusable templates and models.
• Demonstrated ability to work with large, messy datasets and translate them into clear summaries and recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings to both engineering teams and finance/business leaders.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and managing multiple concurrent ad-hoc requests alongside recurring deliverables.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, Economics, Data Analytics, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with a cloud cost management platform - FinOpsly, CloudHealth, AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or similar.
• Working familiarity with public cloud billing constructs across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or GCP - including reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, and enterprise agreements.
• Exposure to enterprise cloud commitment structures (e.g., MACC, EDP) and how consumption tracks against them.
• Dashboarding and visualization experience with Looker, Grafana, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Basic SQL and/or scripting (Python) for data extraction and transformation.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner certification (FinOps Foundation), or willingness to obtain within the first six months.
• Experience with cost allocation and showback/chargeback for SaaS and shared services.

The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. For more information, check out the "About Us" section.Pay Range: $68,000.00 - $84,700.00