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

📌 Senior FinOps Analyst (Bogotá, D.C.)
🏢 SmartRecruiters
📍 Bogotá, D.C.