FinOps Analyst 2

WEX Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 68,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Health savings account

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

WEX is expanding its FinOps practice and seeks a FinOps Analyst to bring financial accountability to our cloud spend. You will translate invoices and usage data into actionable insights for engineers, finance, and business leaders.

You'll collaborate across teams on cost reporting, optimization opportunities, budget maintenance, and platform administration, with growth into cloud architecture and FinOps leadership.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in financial, business, data analysis or cloud ops.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel or Google Sheets.
• Ability to translate large datasets into summaries and recommendations.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, IS, Economics, Data Analytics, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly cost reports and slide decks on cloud spend.
• Answer ad-hoc cost questions from owners, architects, and finance partners.
• Provide optimization recommendations for cloud spend (rightsizing, idle cleanup, tiering).
• Manage reservations and track savings and utilization.
• Maintain budgets, forecasts, and cost allocations.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data analysis

Excel

Communication

SQL basics

Cloud cost basics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

FinOpsly

Looker

Power BI

Tableau

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.

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.

Pay Range

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. Pay Range: $68,000.00 - $84,700.00

Benefits

• 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.

WEX is a global commerce platform that helps businesses solve for operational complexities like employee benefits, managing and mobilizing fleets, and streamlining payments. With over 6,500 employees, we work with large and small companies in more than 200 countries and territories, and can tailor our services to meet the unique needs of their businesses. We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and client service that is unparalleled in the industry.

WEX is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability or other protected status. WEX promotes a drug-free workplace. Qualified individuals with a disability have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. If you require a reasonable accommodation as a result of your disability at any point in the job application process, please submit your request through our Reasonable Accommodation Request Form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.