FinOps Analyst – Infrastructure & Technology
Level: P16
Role Summary
The FinOps Analyst will support financial management and cost optimization across Infrastructure and Technology. This role will provide visibility into infrastructure spend, identify savings opportunities, manage forecasts and budgets, and coordinate financial activities related to cloud hosting, software and tools, contractor renewals, CAPEX/OPEX and purchase orders.
The role will work closely with Infrastructure, CloudOps, Engineering, Finance, and business stakeholders to improve cost visibility, strengthen financial governance, and ensure technology investments are planned and managed effectively.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud Cost Management
- Monitor and analyze infrastructure and cloud hosting costs across environments and platforms.
- Develop monthly reporting on actual spend, forecast, budget, and cost variances.
- Identify cost optimization and savings opportunities such as unused or underutilized resources, capacity optimization, storage optimization, and commitment opportunities.
- Track identified savings initiatives through implementation and validate realized savings.
- Help establish cost allocation, tagging, and ownership practices to improve infrastructure cost visibility.
- Support infrastructure teams with cost analysis for architectural and capacity decisions.
Budget Planning & Forecasting
- Coordinate annual and periodic budget planning for infrastructure hosting, software, tools, and related technology expenses.
- Maintain forecasts and track actual spend against approved budgets.
- Analyze and communicate material budget variances and emerging cost risks.
- Partner with technical owners to understand upcoming capacity, infrastructure, licensing, and tooling requirements.
- Maintain visibility into upcoming financial commitments and planned investments.
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Tools, Software & Renewals
- Maintain a consolidated inventory of infrastructure tools, software subscriptions, licenses, associated costs, owners, and renewal dates.
- Coordinate upcoming renewals with technical owners, Procurement, and Finance.
- Analyze license utilization and spend to identify consolidation, optimization, or retirement opportunities.
- Support renewal decisions through cost analysis, historical spend, usage, and future requirements.
- Reduce unexpected renewals and unplanned software spend through proactive tracking.
Contractor Cost Management
- Track contractors spend against approved budgets and forecasts.
- Maintain visibility into contractor allocations, rates, cost centers, purchase orders, and expected spend.
- Partner with managers and Finance to forecast contractor costs and identify potential budget variances.
- Provide regular reporting on contractor spend and commitments.
Purchase Orders & Financial Operations
- Coordinate and create purchase orders in Salesforce for infrastructure, hosting, tools, software, and contractor-related expenses.
