Senior Manager / AVP - Cloud Finops

Designation: Senior Manager / AVP - Finance (Cloud Finops)
Location: Bangalore/Hyderabad
Years of Experience: 6 to 12 Years
Department: Finance (Cloud Fin ops)
Job Role:
Manage monthly cloud budget and forecast process in managing consumption and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners.
Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
Collaborate with Cost Optimization Engineers to track resource utilization to define and execute relevant cloud commitment plans and to define strategies to re-purpose free capacity.
Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the multi cloud landscape.
Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions.
Participate in automating, integrating, and maturing the Cloud FinOps processes and data.
Ability to understand problems, identify opportunities for improvement and provide solutions and innovative cost-cutting initiatives
IT MIS preparation – for IT department including Financial and Internal
Assisting in preparing Cloud Budgets and tracking expenses against them
Monthly Provisioning of cloud expenses, co-ordination with internal Finance team for timely PO, Invoicing and Payments.
Coordinate with different business functions including IT department, Business verticals, PMO, Fincon, APPC team and to ensure corrective measures on financial MIS
Good working knowledge in MS-Excel, Oracle, (MS Access and Macros additional advantage)
Structuring of Processes and automation of manual activities
Job Requirement:
6+ years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps/Cloud Spend optimization.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology
MBA/PGDM in Supply Chain, Operations, or Business Administration (preferred).
Good knowledge of public cloud players (AWS, Azure), their product portfolio and commercial models.
Knowledge of the core Finance principles and basic understanding of the corporate accounting process (forecast, invoicing, show back, accruals, procurement, etc.)
Ability to properly structure, model and visualize cloud platform data to support decision making.
Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders.
Aptitude to learn and understand new concepts and technologies to become an expert in the field.
Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Team player and interpersonal skills
Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization.
Possess a current FinOps certification, or ability to attain within 12 months.

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