FinOps Specialist

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The FinOps Specialist supports cloud financial management and cost optimization activities across the enterprise’s multi-cloud and SaaS environments.

Working under the guidance of senior FinOps team members, this role partners with technology, finance, and business stakeholders to help operationalize FinOps practices that drive accountability, transparency, and efficient use of cloud resources.

The FinOps Specialist assists in maintaining cost governance frameworks, building forecasting and showback reports, identifying optimization opportunities, and supporting data-driven decision-making to maximize the business value of cloud investments while aligning with regulatory and compliance requirements.

• Support the execution of FinOps strategies and operating models to optimize cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and other cloud and SaaS platforms.
• Assist in maintaining cost allocation models, including showback frameworks, to support accountability and transparency across business units.
• Help build and maintain cost forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis reports through vendor and business partnerships to support financial planning and governance.
• Identify and help implement cost optimization opportunities including rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, spot instance strategies, and architectural recommendations, in collaboration with senior team members.
• Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to promote cost awareness in development practices and infrastructure-as-code standards.
• Help enforce tagging governance policies to ensure accurate cost attribution and reporting across cloud resources.
• Build and maintain cost reports, dashboards, and KPIs that communicate cloud financial performance to business stakeholders.
• Assist with FinOps governance processes including cost anomaly monitoring, budget alerting, and spend review cadences.
• Support analysis and tracking of cloud provider commitments, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Enterprise Discount Programs.
• Coordinate with IT Governance and Finance to help align cloud financial management with enterprise budgeting and procurement processes.