Your responsibilities

• Analyzes cloud usage data to identify patterns, anomalies, and areas of inefficiency or overprovisioning.
• Develops and recommends cost optimization strategies across services, pricing models (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans), and architectural decisions.
• Monitors and reports on cloud spend, budget variances, and utilization metrics on a regular cadence.
• Partners with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Finance to implement and track cost-saving initiatives.
• Drives accountability through showback/chargeback models and financial transparency.
• Supports budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis in partnership with Finance and business leaders.
• Tracks actual vs. committed spend, license and usage audits and surface opportunities for renegotiation or cost optimization.
• Collaborates with procurement and legal teams to drive cost-effective vendor management.
• Works to continuously improve cost management processes, financial reporting cadence, and internal controls.
• Automates repeatable reporting tasks and creates dashboards that drive insight and action.

Our requirements

• At least 3 years of experience with cost optimization frameworks, preferably the AWS Well-Architected Framework and use of Financial Operations (FinOps) tools e.g. CloudHealth, Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer.
• Working knowledge of cloud cost models, SaaS metrics.
• Prior experience working in a SaaS product organization.
• Skilled at using Microsoft Excel at an advanced level.
• Adept at stakeholder management.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data.
• Excellent communication skills and can translate data trends into easy-to-understand summaries and actionable insights.
• Can effectively organize and manage day-to-day work and priorities, and use time, energy and resources to meet goals, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Able to effectively work and thrive in a remote/hybrid work environment that has limited opportunities for in-person interactions.