09 oct
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Agileengine
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Cali
Agile Engine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.
WHY JOIN US
If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Fin Ops Analyst to advise engineering teams on cloud costs and optimization. This role requires a schedule that covers APAC business hours (evening/night shift in LATAM/US), including a necessary overlap with PST and afternoon CST.
MUST HAVES
- 4+ years of experience in Fin Ops.
- Strong cloud cost management and optimization expertise.
- Proven ability to investigate spend anomalies and produce written root-cause analyses.
- Experience serving as a partner-facing resource, advising and consulting directly with R&D;/engineering teams.
- Cloud cost forecasting experience, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.
- Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring LLM spend.
- Cost modeling and team investment/project tracking.
- Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time, asynchronous support.
- Experience in maintaining technical documentation/wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting, such as Showback.
- Strong written and verbal communication for stakeholder engagement and reporting.
- Availability to cover APAC business hours with necessary PST and afternoon CST overlap.
- Upper-intermediate English level.
NICE TO HAVES
- AI/LLM governance expertise.
- AI/LLM variable cost management expertise.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Serve as the primary point of contact for R&D; teams seeking cloud cost guidance,
triaging and answering inbound questions in real time via the team's Slack channel and other asynchronous channels.
- Conduct proactive, consultative engagement with key spending teams, especially APAC-based colleagues — to review monthly cloud spending, surface actionable cost opportunities, and understand upcoming engineering roadmap delivery plans before they become budget surprises; capture meeting notes and summaries with recommendations on top recurring questions and emerging cost patterns.
- Proactively monitor cloud and AI/LLM spend for anomalies, cost spikes, and inefficiency patterns; conduct structured investigations into flagged variances, produce written root-cause analyses, and deliver actionable optimization recommendations to team owners, documenting the work on Jira tickets and flagging items for the monthly reporting.
- Participate in the monthly forecasting cycle, engaging directly with assigned R&D; teams to align central forecasts with team-level projections, surface discrepancies, and document team plans and intent for upcoming spend; produce monthly forecast engagement notes per assigned team cohort.
- Contribute a Fin Ops practitioner perspective and team-sourced information, including AI/LLM cost drivers, to showback reporting and top spending R&D; team meetings, maintaining an understanding of cost drivers.
- Support Cost Awareness and Cost Education efforts, and audit and update the relevant space on the wiki.
- Model team cost projections and respond to customer help requests via Slack, email, and other channels.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
- Professional growth: Mentorship, Tech Talks, and personalized growth roadmaps.
- Competitive compensation: USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.
- Exciting projects: Modern solutions with Fortune 500 and top product companies.
- Flextime: Versátil schedule with remote and office options.
📌 Senior FinOps Analyst (Cali)
🏢 Agileengine
📍 Cali