Role: Senior Manager / AVP - Finance (Cloud FinOps)
- Department: Information Technology
- Location: Bangalore
- Department: Finance (Cloud FinOps)
- Years of Experience: 7 to 10 Years
- Qualification: B.Tech/BE/ME/M.Tech or MCA
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 Requirements:
- 7+ years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps/Cloud Spend optimization.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology
- 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.
