Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst

About the Role

The analyst will build and operate a FinOps service offering, act as the product owner for stakeholder-facing capabilities such as dashboards, reporting, and automation workflows, and maintain a self‑service portal for easy discovery and request handling. They will evolve the operating model with backlog prioritization, roadmap development, KPIs, and continuous improvement, while leading a FinOps Champion Network and driving governance practices like show‑back adoption and cost‑ownership rituals. Key responsibilities include delivering advanced analytics and dashboards using Apptio Cloudability, Apptio BI, and Turbonomic, defining reporting standards, identifying optimization opportunities, and productizing them into repeatable, automated motions. The analyst will also support cloud service owners with forecasting, budget tracking, variance narratives, and negotiate pricing commitments to improve effective cloud rates, collaborating with cloud engineering to implement automation guardrails. • Build and operate FinOps as a service, including product, community, and culture • Maintain a self‑service FinOps services portal for discovery and request handling • Evolve FinOps operating model with backlog prioritization, roadmap, KPIs, and continuous improvement cycles • Lead a FinOps Champion Network across engineering, finance, and product teams • Drive governance practices like show‑back adoption, KPI standardization, tagging, and cost‑ownership rituals • Develop and maintain dashboards in Apptio Cloudability, Apptio BI, and Turbonomic • Create repeatable analyses for cost anomalies and translate insights into actionable recommendations • Define reporting standards for allocation logic, tagging, and KPI definitions • Identify and productize optimization opportunities with automated detection and execution workflows • Track adoption metrics and feedback loops to improve recommendation quality • Support cloud service owners with spend forecasting, budget tracking, and variance narratives • Negotiate cloud pricing commitments and discount levers to improve effective rates • Collaborate with cloud engineering to implement automation guardrails

Key Responsibilities

• ▸finops service
• ▸self‑service portal
• ▸dashboard development
• ▸cost optimization
• ▸spend forecasting
• ▸automation guardrails

What You Bring

Minimum qualifications are a bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience, five or more years as a Business Systems Analyst, strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, hands‑on dashboard development experience, and working knowledge of multi‑cloud billing. Preferred qualifications include FinOps Certified Practitioner and cloud foundational certifications such as AWS Cloud Practitioner or Microsoft Azure Fundamentals. • Own stakeholder-facing FinOps product features such as dashboards, reports, documentation, and automation workflows • Minimum: 5+ years as Business Systems Analyst with strong analytical and communication skills • Hands‑on experience building dashboards in Apptio or comparable tools • Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP billing and pricing constructs • Preferred: FinOps Certified Practitioner or related cloud certifications

Requirements

• ▸finops
• ▸5+ years
• ▸apptio
• ▸multi-cloud
• ▸finops certified
• ▸bachelor's

Benefits

Autodesk offers a competitive compensation package with a base salary range of $98,000 to $175,450 for U.S. roles, plus bonuses, stock grants, and comprehensive health, financial, and wellness benefits. The company emphasizes a diverse, inclusive culture and equal employment opportunity, encouraging candidates to join a community that builds innovative software to shape a better world.

Work Environment

Office Full-Time