Cloud FinOps/CloudHealth

Hybrid - 2 days a week onsite out of Princeton NJ or Rockville MD

Cloud Economist

• Develop Show Back, Charge Back, Cost Allocation, and budget forecast models related to Cloud utilization and consumption utilizing tools such as CloudHealth for multi-cloud environment
• Reporting to business application owners the monthly cloud computing services consumption costs that will be used for show-back/charge back to the respective line of business/cost centers
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and partner with cloud architects and application leads to resolve/solution and implement
• Develop business reviews and presentation materials for “C” level and senior management team regarding spend, growth, progress, and roadblocks on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) topics
• Review and update tagging guidelines to ensure appropriate categorization of costs
• Define metrics and guardrails to identify opportunities and optimize cost performance
• Define requirements for alerting when costs are higher than expected within a billing cycle
• Develop and administer Power BI reporting/tracking of all TCO/economic-related activities
• Report on project costs and product cost
• Development of Saving Plan, Reserve Instance, on-demand, and spot instance strategy and guidelines across multiple services
• Coordinates and consolidates efforts working closely with colleagues from FP&A, Strategic Sourcing, Infrastructure & Hosting and relevant areas of the business
• Development Cost Allocation Models for Shared Services
• Develop and manage Cloud Compute cost forecasts for business application owners to support the annual budgeting process
• Support TCO Cost Estimating processes and KPI metrics

Qualifications/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business or a related field or equivalent work experience
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 2 years experience in IT financial management
• Minimum of 1 years experience utilizing CloudHealth software

Required Skills Include:

• Strong working knowledge of Ariba
• Knowledge of Procure To Pay (PTP) and Finance work
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with great attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience in financial modeling and analysis of large scale IT infrastructure, application and/or service investments
• Microsoft Excel and Power BI understanding and experience
• Report Generation/Automation skills and insight is a plus
• Understands Cloud computing technologies (AWS/OCI/Azure) and can anticipate workload transition challenges
• Experience supporting and preparing analysis for a multi-Cloud environment
• Willingness to research and self-study to keep technical skills relevant in a highly complex environment
• Ability to take charge of a project and see it through until completion
• Innovative and ability to think outside the box for creative problem solving
• Comfortable working in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to multitask and prioritize deadlines
• Experience in building and operating financial control and analysis systems (cloud cost analysis,show-back, and chargeback)
• Ability to report on financial data
• Experience understanding how cloud resources are tagged
• Experience using tools to perform billbacks and?show-backs
• Experience providing suggestions about cost optimizations
• Experience reporting to individual application owners or IT on cost savings ideas