Experian
Location
Secunderabad | India
Job description
The Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness for Experian's cloud consumption. Key areas the role will support, include financial modelling, budgeting, and forecasting, consumption analysis and KPIs, showback and analytics, and capacity
Cloud Financial Management
Develop dashboards and reports to analyze, monitor, report on Experian's consumption of Cloud and related services to proactively identify opportunities for optimization.
Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, manage anomalies alerts and unplanned spikes
Implement and identifying opportunity to improve the processes, procedures, and governance to manage, make transparent, and optimize the costs accrued by Cloud services to protect the financial investment of Cloud for Experian
Work with various stakeholders to collect reporting requirements and drive continues improvements
Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable
Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions
Determine strategies to manage Cloudability limits for synthetic data creation
People Management
Support in developing a team with skills required to transition Experian into an organization which has best-in-class approach to technology vendor/partner management and achieves best-in-class results.
Participate and heavily contribute to a cross functional project teams, located in multiple global locations
Act as a trusted advisor and challenging business partner to assigned internal stakeholders
Influence key IT stakeholders to factor commercial implications of IT decisions for whole of Experian
Success Measures for the Role
Drive achievement of best-in-class technology cost performance
Develop and maintain strong and mutually supportive relationships with internal partners, to ensure joint objectives are achieved
Play a key role in leading Experian through technology transformation, leveraging appropriate change management practices and skills
Personal Development:
There is significant growth potential in this role, given scope of transformation to be delivered in next two years
Beyond the current role, next step likely to be Demand Manager, Vendor Manager, or Cloud Cost Management SME
Education and specific training:
Possess a current FinOps certification, or ability to attain within 6 months
Possess an AWS Practitioner certification or ability to attain within 12months
State desirable vocational/professional certification or degree.
Bachelors or master's degree in business, finance, IT or analytics MBA/engineering degree
What special skills/training is needed to perform the job.
Basic knowledge of Cloud provider tools and billing mechanics AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI
5-8years of work experience in Finance/Cloud/IT functions
Fair knowledge of SaaS/Cloud business models
Highly motivated self-starter with a very strong work ethic who is willing to work both autonomously and as part of a growing team
Ability to operate at multiple altitudes, prioritize workload across multiple projects and tasks
Ability to evaluate and tackle complex problems and understand the implications of different business approaches
Exceptional social skills, able to establish strong rapport and partnerships at all levels of the organization
Proficiency with financial modeling and spreadsheets (Excel, PoweBI, Quicksight, Tableau, etc)
Remarkable analytical skills and the ability to distil sophisticated information
Ability to work independently in a distributed, fast-paced environment
Attention to detail
Strong verbal and written communication skills
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