What FinOps Sr Specialist contributes to Cardinal Health
FinOps Sr Specialist is an advance analytics specialist that analyzes, plans, and delivers solutions to optimize cloud cost and allows leaders to make decisions to get the most value of our cloud usage.
As a FinOps Analyst, essential duties will include:
Using analytical tools and products perform Cloud cost spend and savings analysis, which sometime will require complex analytical approaches to accomplish the requirement. Support training and coaching of technical/non-technical colleagues around Cloud cost optimization. Work on developing solutions to enable visualization of data to help drive cost savings. Provide continuous feedback to engineers to optimize work through automation.
Responsibilities
- Provide good knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies
- Knowledgeable in chargeback process and improvement
- Knowledgeable in providing high level spend forecast and trends
- Experience in developing cloud cost spend and savings reports.
- Knowledgeable in Finance operations (invoice tracking, good receipt, PO monitoring, etc.)
- Collaborate with Finance team and Cloud champions
- Adhere to security and governance guidelines
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to implement solutions
- Perform tasks in a timely manner
- Promote FinOps best practices and concepts
- Implement policies and procedures
- Adhere to IT cost management strategies, models, processes, and tools
What is expected from you
- Interpersonal, consultative and facilitation skills, coupled with analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Recognizes optimal solution from a pool of proposals (considering efficacy, value, speed to market) and influence the team and our business partner to adopt the optimal solution
- Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform tasks and projects
- Ability to work independently with strong attention to details and accuracy on complex tasks
- Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
- Strategically pursue the development of data modeling and advanced analytics skills
- Continuous learner to stay up to date with latest industry trends, concepts and best practices, plus adapts to changes and priorities quickly.
Requirements / Certifications
- 2+ years of data analytics experience
- 2+ years experience with supporting either GCP or AWS or Azure cloud spend analysis
- 2+ years experience in developing reports (leveraging tools like GCP Looker, PowerBI, Tableau)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of Cloud infrastructure/services
- Experience of managing cloud chargeback models
- Understanding of Cloud commitment usage discounts
- Experience of managing Cloud billing and Procurement processes (Invoice management)
- Experience working with AI solutions
- Certified FinOps Practitioner
- 2+ years experience as a Financial Data Analyst
Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.
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