Remote Cloud Financial Operations Analyst

A telecommunications company has an immediate need for a remote Cloud Financial Operations Analyst to help work with engineering teams to ensure they are leveraging the full economic potential of Cloud through sound cloud financial management. Responsibilities: Manage relationships with engineers, Finance business partners, FinOps key stakeholders, cloud architects, and key vendors (ie. AWS). Keeping up to-date with and cost-effective services launched by AWS, analyze its applicability to Takeda applications and promote its usage amongst engineers and business owners. Promote FinOps mind-set to all the cloud-using teams while being mindful of various challenges that exist across a large application portfolio. Constantly monitor cloud spend for each business unit and work with engineers to implement optimization opportunities including help advise on Reservation/Savings Plan purchases. Build and maintain reports including dashboards suitable for key stakeholders of cloud. Build plans, budgets, forecasts and variance analysis on cloud consumption. Link activity into financial processes and cycles for example providing variance analysis to budgets during month-end reporting. Ensure chargeback and showback processes are fully operational. Establish guardrails / policies to detect and remove usage waste. Continuously improve front door and in-life processes, ensuring the right data is captured to drive all aspects of cost transparency, optimization, and financial accountability. Work with Finance teams to ensure correct accounting is applied according Group Accounting Policy and assisting in booking accruals during financial close. Required Skills Experience building and managing Cloud Cost analysis & visualizations using tools like Apptio, MS Excel, Power BI or any other similar tool. Certification in AWS fundamentals or higher would be preferred. Good with data queries, generating actionable, concise, and presentable data visualizations. Understanding of AWS Cloud fundamentals in FinOps to manage Cloud Budget, Forecast, Spend monitoring, purchasing various Commitments, deriving Cloud Cost Optimization across the Organization. Desired Experience with developing scripts using languages like Python, SQL, and Terraform to implement automated cost optimization control & attribution policies. Certification in FinOps Foundation practitioner is desired. Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. 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