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/