Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. One Call is a company focused on technology cost management, and they are seeking an IT Financial Operations Analyst. This role is responsible for managing technology costs across cloud and SaaS platforms, providing financial insights, and developing cost management practices in collaboration with finance and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Operates the cloud cost management platform (Vantage) across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI
- Builds and maintains cost dashboards, allocation reporting, and chargeback/showback models
- Identifies cost optimization opportunities across cloud workloads and drives them to outcome with engineering teams
- Drives commitment-based pricing strategies including reserved instances, savings plans, and enterprise discount programs
- Produces monthly and quarterly cloud cost reporting for IT leadership and finance partners
- Operates SaaS cost and license management, transitioning the function from the current managed-service engagement (Zylo) to in-house operation
- Maintains the SaaS system of record: contracts, owners, spend, and usage data
- Identifies and reclaims unused or underutilized licenses to reduce waste
- Supports SaaS renewal preparation with usage data, benchmarking, and optimization recommendations
- Identifies shadow IT and enforces SaaS purchasing and governance policies
- Pulls and analyzes technology cost and budget data ahead of monthly Finance and FP&A reviews
- Meets with FP&A in advance of the monthly budget review to reconcile numbers, investigate variances, and identify open items
- Partners with IT leaders to identify the drivers behind variances and spend changes ahead of each review
- Prepares the pre-read and issue list so leadership enters both the org-level Finance review and the IT budget review informed on variances, risks, and go-forward items
- Attends the IT budget review; captures go-forward action items and tracks them to resolution
- Supports business case development and cost modeling for technology investments
- Establishes the FinOps operating model including allocation taxonomy, tagging standards, and governance forums
- Develops FinOps capability and cost accountability across the technology organization
- Drives anomaly detection and cost-spike investigation across cloud and SaaS
- Drives adoption of FinOps best practices including the FinOps Foundation framework
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- 4+ years of experience in technology finance, cloud cost management, or FinOps
- Experience partnering with finance or FP&A on budgeting, forecasting, or variance analysis
- Hands-on experience with cloud cost management platforms (Vantage, Apptio Cloudability, Flexera, CloudHealth, or comparable)
- Hands-on experience with SaaS management platforms (Zylo, Productiv, Torii, or comparable)
- Strong working knowledge of cloud pricing models across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience with reserved instances, savings plans, and enterprise discount programs
- Experience with SaaS license optimization, renewal management, and shadow IT remediation
- Strong analytical skills including data analysis, modeling, and reporting
- Strong communication skills with ability to translate cost data into business outcomes
- Proven ability to partner with engineering and finance functions
- Self-directed with ability to operate with autonomy and minimal supervision
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities
- Ability to work in an environment that aligns with the company's diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging standards
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Demonstrate our core values of Think Big, Go Fast, Deliver Awe, Win Together and Care Deeply
- FinOps Certified Practitioner certification preferred
- Proficiency with spreadsheets (Excel), reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau), and SQL preferred
- Experience with chargeback and showback models
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