Senior FinOps Analyst

Company Description

We are seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering and R&D teams on cloud spending, investigate cost anomalies, and identify actionable optimization opportunities.

In this role, you will serve as a primary partner-facing resource for APAC-based teams, helping align cloud spending with forecasts and measurable business outcomes through cost analysis, education, and proactive engagement.

Enterprise experience is strongly preferred.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary contact for engineering teams seeking cloud cost guidance, responding to questions in real time through Slack and other asynchronous channels.

• Proactively engage with high-spending R&D teams to:

• Review monthly cloud spending.

• Identify cost optimization opportunities.

• Understand upcoming engineering roadmap plans and their potential cost implications.

• Capture meeting notes, recommendations, recurring questions, and emerging cost patterns.

• Monitor cloud and AI/LLM spending for anomalies, spikes, and inefficiencies.

• Investigate spending variances, produce written root-cause analyses, and recommend optimization opportunities to team owners.

• Document investigations in Jira and flag relevant findings for monthly reporting.

• Participate in monthly forecasting by:

• Reconciling central forecasts with team-level projections.

• Documenting discrepancies.

• Capturing team plans and anticipated spending.

• Contribute practitioner insights and team-sourced information, including AI/LLM cost drivers, to Showback reporting and spending reviews.

• Support cloud cost awareness and education across engineering and R&D teams.

• Audit and update technical wiki content and documentation.

• Model team cost projections and track team investments and projects.

• Respond to cost-related requests through Slack, email, and other communication channels.

• Focus on advisory and analytical delivery. Central budget ownership, vendor contract modeling, and platform/tooling engineering are outside the scope of this engagement.

Qualifications

• Must-Have Skills

• Senior-level experience in FinOps (cloud financial operations).

• Strong expertise in cloud cost management and optimization.

• Proven ability to investigate spending anomalies and produce clear, written root-cause analyses.

• Experience advising and consulting directly with R&D or engineering teams in a partner-facing capacity.

• Experience with cloud cost forecasting, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.

• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring LLM spending.

• Experience with cost modeling and tracking team investments or projects.

• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time and asynchronous support.

• Experience maintaining technical documentation or wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting, such as Showback.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders and communicate findings effectively.

• Nice-to-Have Skills

• AI/LLM governance expertise.

• AI/LLM variable cost management expertise.

• Required Tools & Platforms

• Jira and Slack.

• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and LLM spend monitoring.

• Experience working with technical documentation and wiki spaces; no specific wiki platform is required.

• Location, Time & Engagement

• Open to candidates based in eligible LATAM locations or the United States.

• Ability to cover APAC business hours, with some overlap with Pacific Time and the afternoon in Central Time.

• Remote contract engagement, 40 hours per week