Senior FinOps Analyst: Cloud Cost Optimization

FinOps Weekly; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental plans

Transportation voucher

Private pension plan

Life insurance

Extended parental leave

Wellz emotional support platform

Wellhub fitness access

Petlove discounts

Job summary

FinOps Weekly seeks a Senior FinOps Analyst to manage, govern, and optimize cloud costs across major providers. You will turn consumption data into actionable insights to improve financial efficiency, budget predictability, and visibility.

The role collaborates with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, and FP&A to mature FinOps practices. You will identify savings opportunities, support budget/forecast processes, and develop dashboards and cost controls while

Qualifications

• Experience managing and optimizing cloud costs.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
• Experience with FinOps practices and cost management.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience analyzing large volumes of billing data.
• Ability to create dashboards and management reports.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze cloud costs across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
• Identify idle, underused, or oversized resources and recommend optimization actions.
• Analyze consumption trends by product, project, environment and cost center.
• Support budget, forecast and actual-versus-budget reviews for technology costs.
• Build financial projections and growth scenarios for cloud environments.
• Investigate consumption anomalies with technical teams to determine root causes.
• Develop and track cost, utilization, efficiency and optimization indicators.
• Define and improve tagging, labeling and cost allocation strategies.
• Create executive and operational dashboards for cost and KPI tracking.
• Consolidate billing data from multiple cloud providers.

Skills

Cloud cost optimization

Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)

FinOps practices

Financial planning & forecasting

Billing data analysis

Dashboards & reporting

Cost allocation & tagging

Analytical reasoning

Collaboration with tech and finance

Education

Higher education in Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Accounting or related fields

Tools

IBM Apptio Cloudability

Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Power BI

SQL

Job description

FinOps Weekly seeks a Senior FinOps Analyst to manage, govern, and optimize cloud costs across major providers. You will turn consumption data into actionable insights to improve financial efficiency, budget predictability, and visibility.

The role collaborates with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, and FP&A to mature FinOps practices. You will identify savings opportunities, support budget/forecast processes, and develop dashboards and cost controls while