AWS Cloud FinOps Engineer/Manager

AWS Cloud FinOps Engineer/Manager About the Company:JAGGAER is a proven industry leader in comprehensive sourcing & procurement solutions. Our SaaS-based, source-to-settle solution provides unparalleled visibility, insights, and recommendations to procurement leaders and suppliers. The result is a fluid supply chain driven by powerful spend analysis, comprehensive contract management, and efficient accounts payable solutions.Responsibilities Build financial models for projecting cloud costs, ensuring accurate cost estimation, budgeting, forecasting and identification of savings opportunities. Analyze, report, and produce relevant insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, etc, and communicate the insights in a way that resonates with partners. Lead data analysis of cloud expenditure to identify trends, anomalies, unplanned spikes, and investigate root cause of variances while improving processes to prevent recurring issues. Provide strategic analytical reports on business metrics (Cost to Serve, Unit costs, capacity usage, critical metrics, return on investment, etc.) with recommendations that drive realization of cloud value Prepare monthly Cloud Financial management reporting with key insights on consumption, show back, savings and assist with budget alignment across teams. Partner with the Tech teams to understand their current cloud spend, and deliver accurate forecasts based on their business drivers and roadmap. Collaborate with partners to continuously identify cloud cost optimization opportunities and drive strategic cost-savings initiatives that improve gross margin. Develop processes to increase clarity by reducing Untagged / unattributed costs, and maintaining cloud optimization opportunity inventory and tracking the impacts. Work with internal automation teams to define workflows that allow teams to self-serve reporting, automating critical metric reporting and recommend enhancements that simplify budget management processes Provide support for various requests such as billing and Cloud cost inquiries Develop a culture of cost accountability among teams by staying updated on Cloud's evolving service offerings, trends, pricing models, and driving the implementation of Finops standard processes to enhance efficiency. Assist with the creation and maintenance of internal documentation on Finops, cost optimization, and onboarding processes Required Skills Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Statistics, Economics, or IT related experience leading cloud spend and business partnering. Strong analytical attitude with meticulous attention to detail (Minimum of 5 years of experience in financial analysis, reporting, modelling and forecasting) Ability to interpret and present data in a visually compelling format to financial and non-financial audiences Exceptional communication skills and ability to tell a story with numbers Advanced analytic, modeling, and forecasting skills Experience building and maintaining data visualizations using tools like Tableau to create interactive dashboards for partners. Apply data query tools and sophisticated spreadsheet features to improve financial analysis and automate repetitive tasks Solid understanding of FP&A activities and principles Demonstrated knowledge of public cloud provider billing methods and concepts Experience with Public cloud financial tools and cost management such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS CUR Knowledge of Finops principles and standard methodologies Desired Skills/Experience SAAS experience Experience handling major cost-saving projects from inception through post-implementations Finops certified practitioner AWS certification PRB