Lead Cloud Cost Optimization Manager

About This Role:

As a member of the Cloud Cost Operations team, you'll be instrumental in driving our FinOps program - providing critical cost visibility, driving financial accountability within our engineering organizations, identifying optimization opportunities, and conducting deep analysis across our cloud infrastructure and R&D tooling. You will work cross-functionally with Business Unit leaders, Engineers, Finance, Procurement and external vendors, collaborating on data-driven spending decisions.

What You'll Do:

• Monitor and Analyze Cloud Spend:Continuously monitor cloud expenditures across a multicloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), identifying trends, anomalies, and areas for potential savings. Support engineering teams as a FinOps partner by providing clear visibility into cloud cost through analysis of consumption and planned infrastructure activities.

• Drive Cost Optimization Initiatives:Work closely with engineering teams to identify and implement cost optimization strategies, including rightsizing instances, optimizing storage, and managing reserved instances/savings plans. Track the impact of these initiatives and report on savings achieved. Stay up to date on cloud offerings and technologies with an emphasis on how they can impact cost. 

• Forecasting and Budgeting Support:Collaborate with finance teams to budget, forecast, track and allocate costs, providing data-driven insights to inform financial planning.

• Summarize Data and Provide Recommendations to Executives:Provide executive summaries and recommendations concerning cloud costs, tooling costs, optimizations, budgets and forecasts.

• Develop and Maintain Reporting:Create and enhance automated reports and dashboards that provide stakeholders with actionable insights into cost and usage data.

• Collaborate and Educate:Partner with engineering, finance, and procurement teams to foster a culture of cost awareness and accountability. Educate engineers on best practices for cloud cost management, efficient resource utilization, and prioritization of high-impact saving activities.

• Cloud Vendor Management:Assist in evaluating cloud vendor billing and pricing models to ensure accuracy and identify potential cost efficiencies. Collaborate with cloud vendors to ensure teams are using resources efficiently and implementing best practices

• Automate Cost Management Processes:Increase efficiency and automate workflows/tasks where possible.

• R&D Tooling Cost Management:Analyze spend on our R&D tooling portfolio, identifying opportunities for license optimization, vendor consolidation, and efficient utilization. Work across multiple teams to understand software licensing requirements and collaborate with the procurement team on purchasing required software

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Business or Engineering.

• 8+ years of experience in a FinOps, Cloud Cost Management, Engineering, Financial Analyst, or similar role.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, analyze, and interpret complex financial and cloud usage data.

• Working knowledge of cloud computing concepts.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to translate complex financial and technical data into understandable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Basic understanding of financial principles, budgeting, and forecasting.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional environment and influence stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• FinOps-specific certifications or experience.

• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts and cost models (AWS, Azure, or GCP experience is highly desirable).

• Experience with cloud cost management or asset management platforms.

• Proactiveness and resourcefulness in identifying and solving problems related to cost inefficiencies.

• Familiarity with software licensing and SaaS cost models.

• Proficient with analysis tools such as Excel & Power BI.

• Experience querying data using tools such as SQL.

• A love for data and driving business outcomes.

About Us:

Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks.  Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process,  please email us at [email protected] for assistance.