Staff FinOps Analyst, AI Spend & Value Insights

Procore Technologies; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Procore Technologies in Austin, TX leads AI spend governance and optimization within the Enterprise AI Center of Excellence. We seek a Staff FinOps Analyst to own visibility, forecasting, allocation, and actionable insights for AI spend across the company.

This role emphasizes strategy over pipelines and requires strong SQL and BI skills, experience with cloud cost management, and the ability to translate data into executive recommendations. Flexible US-wide candidates are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in FinOps, IT finance, cloud cost management or FP&A for technology spend.
• Experience managing consumption-based spend (cloud, data platforms, AI).
• Clear communication with executives and Finance; translate numbers into actions.

Responsibilities

• Own the full picture of AI spend; maintain a single source of truth for AI-related costs.
• Build the AI FinOps framework: metrics, definitions, guardrails and operating rhythm.
• Turn spend into insights; identify drivers, growth, value, and waste; brief leaders and Finance.
• Forecast spend by business unit and run scenario models for planning cycles.
• Build cost models and TCO for new AI tools and major rollouts for portfolio decisions.
• Monitor spend; set alert thresholds and explain variances to budget monthly.
• Create allocation and chargeback reporting; map AI spend to cost centers monthly.
• Recommend optimizations to access tiers, caps, model mix and tools to cut waste.
• Measure unit economics; track cost per active user, use case, and agent run; partner with PM.
• Influence vendor/renewal strategy; compare pricing models and support renewals.

Skills

FinOps experience

SQL

Tableau

Forecasting

Cost allocation

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

Job description

Procore Technologies in Austin, TX leads AI spend governance and optimization within the Enterprise AI Center of Excellence. We seek a Staff FinOps Analyst to own visibility, forecasting, allocation, and actionable insights for AI spend across the company.

This role emphasizes strategy over pipelines and requires strong SQL and BI skills, experience with cloud cost management, and the ability to translate data into executive recommendations. Flexible US-wide candidates are encouraged to apply.