Sr. FinOps Analyst

Cox Automotive Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive Inc. is seeking a Sr. FinOps Analyst to drive financial analysis and reporting for cloud and AI spend. The role creates chargebacks for vendors, analyzes cost drivers, and collaborates with leadership to optimize technology costs.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in cloud operations/FinOps, strong Excel skills, and excellent communication to influence across engineering and product teams. This is an in-office hybrid role based in the US.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years in technology; master's with 2+ years or PhD with 1+ year accepted.
• Ideal mix of 4+ years in cloud operations and FinOps.
• Strong business acumen, analytical, and technical depth interest.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create monthly accounting chargeback and showbacks for strategic tech spend.
• Identify and alert on cloud and AI cost anomalies timely.
• Collaborate with product engineering to implement cost optimization.
• Develop dashboards and reports showing technology spending trends.
• Monitor cloud and AI expenses and identify optimization opportunities.
• Communicate insights to cross-functional teams and management.

Skills

Cloud cost management

FinOps

Analytical skills

Excel PivotTables

Data storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree +4 years tech

Master's Degree +2 years

PhD +1 year

Tools

Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Sr. FinOps Analyst will work across Cox Automotive to direct and perform financial analysis and reporting activities, focusing on Cloud platform providers and SaaS software. Creates accounting charge backs for an expanding roster of strategic technology vendors. Gathers, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for optimizing spend. Develops, implements and monitors financial metrics, focusing on Cloud consumption. Consults with product development teams and executive leadership to share cost trends, cost drivers, and optimization opportunities.

Cox Automotive is transforming the way the world buys, sells, owns, and uses cars using our vast array of automotive solutions (Autotrader, KBB, Manheim, Dealer.com, VinSolutions, vAuto, Xtime, DealerTrack, and more). Our successful cloud transformation is unleashing innovation in our business, and we are expanding our Financial Operations (FinOps) capability to continue to successfully govern and manage our technology strategy and spend.

Candidates may reside in Atlanta, Georgia or Burlington, Vermont

Internal Cox employees may reside in any corporate office location.

All must follow In-office hybrid schedule

Who You Are

An experienced Technology professional with an understanding of Cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and AI platform (Anthropic, Microsoft Copilot, AWS Quick, AWS Bedrock) cost management.

What You'll Do

• Create monthly accounting chargeback and showbacks for strategic technology spend to allocate costs to different business units or projects
• Identify and alert on cloud and AI cost anomalies in a timely fashion
• Think independently to solve difficult data problems
• Collate, analyze, and prioritize technology optimization recommendations and calculate potential savings
• Monitor ongoing cloud and AI expenses and identify cost-saving opportunities, such as unused or underutilized resources
• Over time, develop expertise to provide expert knowledge of cloud and AI cost optimization strategies (e.g. rightsizing, reservations, scheduling and scaling, model use, caching, etc.)
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to implement cost optimization recommendations and best practices
• Utilize data to tell compelling stories by visualizing technology usage, driving technology cost optimization practices within product engineering teams
• Stay up to date with industry trends and regulations related to FinOps and technology cost optimization
• Generate regular reports and dashboards to provide visibility into technology spending and cost trends.
• Conduct in-depth cost analysis to identify cost drivers and areas for improvement.
• Conduct analysis of multiple complex cost proposals
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management

Qualifications

• Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.
• Bachelor's Degree with 4+ years of demonstrated technology experience. A candidate may also have a Master's Degree with 2+ years of experience or a Ph.D with 1+ year of experience.
• Ideal candidate will have a mix of 4+ years' experience in cloud operations and finops related roles
• Strong business acumen, analytical, and with a degree of technical depth or strong interest in adding technical depth
• Interested in developing deep knowledge of how purchased technology services are used to meet business needs
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Office products with an emphasis on Excel (particularly the use of PivotTables, graphing, and relevant formulas).
• Exhibit sound business judgement, an ability to influence others, analytical skills, and a track record of taking ownership and influencing results
• Experience driving high-impact projects spanning multiple teams and numerous stakeholders
• Must live near listed office location and follow weekly in office hybrid schedule
• The ideal candidate will have experience in IT financial management or FinOps

Preferred Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform product lines or other Cloud offerings
• Detailed understanding of AI product lines (Anthropic, Microsoft Copilot, AWS Quick, AWS Bedrock)
• Experience with Cloud and AI Cost optimization
• Experience working in cost chargeback processes

USD 89,400.00 - 134,000.00 per year

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $89,400.00 - $134,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.

EOE, including disability/vets