keyboard_backspace Cloud Costing Analyst - 1394025T

Cloud Costing Analyst

The role is for a costing analyst (much like a product analyst or business system analyst). First, the person will be learning on what to do from an existing costing analyst (Mary Tran).

• The person will be managing our Amazon cloud account and Microsoft Azure Accounts.
• The person will be doing financial forecasting for the account based on the
• Input received from management team
• plans received from the team during their planning events, i.e. PI Planning, Sprint Planning, etc.
• The person will compare our actual cost against the forecast budget.
•  The person will report out where we are off/out from the budget
• The person will investigate the reasons why we are off.
• The person will monitor the run rate of our cloud expenditure and flag sudden spikes for troubleshooting and investigation
• The person will also be providing input in the design of 2 new automated systems
• Cloud Red solution
• Cloudability solution
• based on the areas where they think things are the most difficult to do or will provide the biggest benefit based on their user experience.
• Time wise the person’s time will be broken down like this:
• 30% on costing/reporting
• 20% monitoring/ troubleshooting and investigation
• 15% meetings – Finance/Technical Operations /Enterprise Platforms
• 25% collaborate with design teams automation design and testing of CloudRed and Cloudability tools.
• 10% misc.
• Experience wanted/needed:
• This is an L-Band position (junior) person.
• Any Client Experience will be a PLUS.
• Any person that has 1 to 2 years experience budgeting (for a team or business) and ensuring that actual expenditure is within budget limits.
• 3 to 5 years experience working in a team setting

Qualifications/Education needed:

High School Ceritificate