Senior Financial Operations Analyst

Overview

The organization is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering teams on cloud cost management and optimization. This role requires coverage of APAC business hours (including evening/night shift in LATAM/US) with necessary overlap with PST and afternoon CST.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for R&D teams seeking cloud cost guidance; triage and answer inbound questions in real time and asynchronously through Slack and other channels.
• Engage proactively with key spending teams to:
  • Review monthly cloud spending
  • Identify actionable cost opportunities
  • Understand upcoming engineering roadmap delivery plans before they become budget surprises
  • Capture meeting notes and summaries, including recommendations on top recurring questions and emerging cost patterns
• Monitor cloud and AI/LLM spend for anomalies, cost spikes, and inefficiency patterns; investigate flagged variances and produce written root-cause analyses.
• Deliver actionable optimization recommendations to team owners, documenting work on Jira tickets and flagging items for monthly reporting.
• Participate in the monthly forecasting cycle by aligning central cloud economics forecasts with team-level projections; surface discrepancies and document team plans and intent for upcoming spend.
• Produce monthly forecast engagement notes for assigned team cohorts.
• Provide a FinOps practitioner perspective and incorporate team-sourced information (including AI/LLM cost drivers) for showback reporting and top spending R&D team meetings.
• Support cloud cost awareness and education efforts, including auditing and updating the Cloud Economics space on the wiki.
• Model team cost projections and respond to customer help requests via Slack, email, and other channels.

Requirements (Must Haves)

• Authorization to work for ANY employer in the US (e.g., Green card holders, TN visa holders, GC EAD, H4 EAD, U4U with EAD); the employer is unable to sponsor or take over employment visa sponsorship at this time.
• 4+ years of experience in FinOps.
• Strong expertise in cloud cost management and optimization.
• Proven ability to investigate spend anomalies and produce written root-cause analyses.
• Experience advising and consulting directly with R&D/engineering teams as a partner-facing resource.
• Cloud cost forecasting experience, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring LLM spend.
• Cost modeling and team investment/project tracking experience.
• Proficiency with Jira (documentation of investigations) and Slack (real-time and asynchronous support).
• Experience maintaining technical documentation/wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting such as Showback.
• Strong written and verbal communication for stakeholder engagement and reporting.
• Availability to cover APAC business hours with necessary PST and afternoon CST overlap.
• Upper-intermediate English level.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Haves)

• AI/LLM governance expertise.
• AI/LLM variable cost management expertise.

Compensation & Benefits

• Growth without limits: build skills through mentorship, internal TechTalks, challenging projects, and a dedicated annual learning budget.
• Competitive compensation: regular performance and compensation reviews.
• Flexibility: 100% remote work with flexible hours.
• Access to well-being programs and people-focused support tailored to location.

Location

• Remote (with coverage aligned to APAC business hours, including overlap with PST and afternoon CST).