Senior Manager - Cloud FinOps

Designation: Senior Manager / AVP - Finance (Cloud Finops)

Location: Bangalore/Hyderabad

Years of Experience: 6 to 12 Years

Department: Finance (Cloud Fin ops)

Job Role:

• Manage monthly cloud budget and forecast process in managing consumption and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners.
• Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
• Collaborate with Cost Optimization Engineers to track resource utilization to define and execute relevant cloud commitment plans and to define strategies to re-purpose free capacity.
• Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the multi cloud landscape.
• Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Participate in automating, integrating, and maturing the Cloud FinOps processes and data.
• Ability to understand problems, identify opportunities for improvement and provide solutions and innovative cost-cutting initiatives
• IT MIS preparation for IT department including Financial and Internal
• Assisting in preparing Cloud Budgets and tracking expenses against them
• Monthly Provisioning of cloud expenses, co-ordination with internal Finance team for timely PO, Invoicing and Payments.
• Coordinate with different business functions including IT department, Business verticals, PMO, Fincon, APPC team and to ensure corrective measures on financial MIS
• Good working knowledge in MS-Excel, Oracle, (MS Access and Macros additional advantage)
• Structuring of Processes and automation of manual activities

Job Requirement:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps/Cloud Spend optimization.
• Bachelors degree in engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology
• MBA/PGDM in Supply Chain, Operations, or Business Administration (preferred).
• Good knowledge of public cloud players (AWS, Azure), their product portfolio and commercial models.
• Knowledge of the core Finance principles and basic understanding of the corporate accounting process (forecast, invoicing, show back, accruals, procurement, etc.)
• Ability to properly structure, model and visualize cloud platform data to support decision making.
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders.
• Aptitude to learn and understand new concepts and technologies to become an expert in the field.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Team player and interpersonal skills
• Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization.
• Possess a current FinOps certification, or ability to attain within 12 months.