Responsibilities
Financial Governance and cost control
- Monitor cloud spend (AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP) and detect unusual patterns or anomalies
- Monitor spend vs budget
- Investigate cost spikes and prepare first level explanations. Escalate risk and findings to the FinOps manager and engineer teams.
- Maintain cost allocation and show back models
- Track FinOps KPI
- Develop dashboards and detailed reports
- Participate in technology choices to influence decisions based on estimated costs
Optimization and savings delivery
- Identify and support the implementation of cost optimization strategies and collaborate with engineers' teams on efficient resource usage
- Track optimization actions and realized savings
- Maintain a savings pipeline and reporting
Forecasting, budgeting and planning
- Support cloud cost forecasting with historical data analysis.
- Assist with quarterly reforecasting exercises in collaboration with Finance team.
Stakeholder support and documentation
- Prepare materials for FinOps review and governance meeting
- Document FinOps processes, reports and standards
- Respond to cost-related questions from engineering and finance team