Remote FinOps Analyst: Cloud & SaaS Cost Optimization

One Call; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

One Call is seeking a FinOps Analyst to drive visibility and governance of cloud and SaaS spend. You will operate cost management tooling, analyze budgets ahead of monthly reviews, and partner with IT and finance to explain spend and identify savings.

This hands-on role will mature FinOps practices, establish governance, and support cost modeling for technology investments while aligning with company goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, CS, IS, or related discipline.
• 4+ years in technology finance, cloud cost management, or FinOps.
• Experience partnering with finance or FP&A on budgeting or forecasting.
• Hands-on with cloud cost management platforms (Vantage, Apptio Cloudability, Flexera, CloudHealth, or comparable).
• Hands-on experience with SaaS management platforms (Zylo, Productiv, Torii, or comparable).
• FinOps Certified Practitioner certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Operates the cloud cost management platform across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
• Builds and maintains cost dashboards, allocation reporting, and chargeback/showback models.
• Identifies cost optimization opportunities across cloud workloads and drives them to outcome with engineering teams.
• Drives commitment-based pricing strategies including reserved instances, savings plans, and enterprise discount programs.
• Produces monthly and quarterly cloud cost reporting for IT leadership and finance partners.
• Operates SaaS cost and license management, transitioning the function from Zylo to in-house operation.
• Maintains the SaaS system of record: contracts, owners, spend, and usage data.
• Identifies and reclaims unused or underutilized licenses to reduce waste.
• Supports SaaS renewal preparation with usage data, benchmarking, and optimization recommendations.
• Identifies shadow IT and enforces SaaS purchasing and governance policies.
• Pulls and analyzes technology cost and budget data ahead of monthly Finance and FP&A reviews.
• Meets with FP&A in advance of the monthly budget review to reconcile numbers, investigate variances, and identify open items.
• Partners with IT leaders to identify the drivers behind variances and spend changes ahead of each review.
• Prepares the pre-read and issue list so leadership enters both the org-level Finance review and the IT budget review informed on variances, risks, and go-forward items.
• Attends the IT budget review; captures go-forward action items and tracks them to resolution.
• Supports business case development and cost modeling for technology investments.
• Establishes the FinOps operating model including allocation taxonomy, tagging standards, and governance forums.
• Develops FinOps capability and cost accountability across the technology organization.
• Drives anomaly detection and cost-spike investigation across cloud and SaaS.
• Drives adoption of FinOps best practices including the FinOps Foundation framework.

Skills

Cloud cost management

SaaS cost management

Budgeting & forecasting

Data analysis

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related

Tools

Vantage

Apptio Cloudability

Flexera

CloudHealth

Zylo

Productiv

Torii

Job description

One Call is seeking a FinOps Analyst to drive visibility and governance of cloud and SaaS spend. You will operate cost management tooling, analyze budgets ahead of monthly reviews, and partner with IT and finance to explain spend and identify savings.

This hands-on role will mature FinOps practices, establish governance, and support cost modeling for technology investments while aligning with company goals.