Position: Lead Cloud Finance Analyst
Company: GlobalLogic
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or a related discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, professional training, or work experience.

5-8 years of related finance or business analysis experience.

Existing cloud forecasting and optimization expertise is required.

Proficiency in the use of Word processing, Excel spreadsheet, and other related software applications.

Advanced knowledge of financial analysis.

Attributes for success:

Effective organizational skills.

Effective communication skills both orally and written.

 

Preferences

AWS

Responsibilities

Responsible for complex tasks in various financial functions such as budgeting, auditing, forecasting and analysis.

Own and refine monthly, quarterly, annual, and multi-year cloud spend forecast process to ensure effective management & accurate and timely financial reporting. This includes development of forecasting process, model development, roll out, and reconciliation of performance to plan.

Collects and reviews financial data from various Cloud sources such as AWS Cost and Usage Report, and business KPIs from central FP&A.

Performs technical and financial analysis to help Business Owner(s) and Engineering Cost Owner(s) determine the cost impact of cloud on projects.

Creates, maintains, updates financial databases and spreadsheets, and generates various financial reports as required.

Analyzes assigned business owner account, cloud usage, and capacity requirements.

Supports assigned Finance Controllers in managing, tracking, monitoring, and reporting financial data as requested.

Makes recommendations to Engineering Cost Owner to improve the cost optimization of the account.

Develop plans for assigned accounts and tracks performance to plan.

Assists in the development of cost optimization policies and guidelines.

Conducts audits and analysis of optimization efforts, and reviews practices and procedures, ensuring that new resources are approved, allowable, and in the best interest of the Business Owner and Engineering Cost Owner.

Maintains current knowledge of relevant Cloud forecasting, optimization, regulations, policies, and procedures.

Participates in special projects as required.

Define the total cost of ownership and tracks the unit cost of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in a multi-cloud environment.