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Posted 2 days agoPrincipal Cloud FinOps Analyst
at Horizon3.ai
United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Make Cloud and AI spend billing data available in analytics and reporting tools, and with automated export to Excel / Google Sheets and finance systems. - Develop cloud spend forecast models that incorporate sales forecasts and product roadmap initiatives. - Define spend alarms based on budgets and forecasts.
- Drive investigations of spend incidents. - Build capabilities to track unit economics of the product portfolio.
Requirements
- Get to Know Us Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them.
- Partner with product feature teams to drive visibility on metrics such as cost per customer, per operation, per API request, and AI token usage rates.
- experience as a FinOps cloud spend analyst on a major cloud provider.
- Deep familiarity with cost and usage data and SQL based billing analysis, preferably on AWS. - Strong exploratory data analysis skills in SQL. - Ability to analyze and explore large, complex billing datasets. - Experienced in analysis of a cloud vendor’s billing data in SQL. - Able to independently investigate anomalies, identify cost drivers, and answer questions on spend. -
- Experience in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS company with a multi-tenant architecture.
- Familiarity with the challenge of attributing shared infrastructure costs to specific customers or product features. - Must have built cost reporting and dashboards for spend visibility.
- Experience in BI tooling such as AWS QuickSight, GCP Data Studio, Tableau, Looker, or similar. - Spreadsheet skills. Ability to build forecasting models in Excel/Google Sheets. -
- Experience working with Engineering on tagging and labelling and driving cost visibility into development processes. - Familiarity with AWS/GCP/Azure savings mechanisms — Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, etc. - Able to independently spend anomaly investigations, document findings, and make well defined clear recommendations. - Strong communication skills.
- Nice to Haves - FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP or practitioner level) or equivalent demonstrated knowledge of FinOps frameworks and lifecycle.