Cloud FinOps Manager

FlexOS Global Pte. Ltd. - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

About the position

The Cloud FinOps professional at Salesforce will play a crucial role in analyzing cloud data and financial metrics to drive cost efficiencies and align cloud spending with business objectives. This position requires a blend of financial acumen, technical knowledge, and strong communication skills to provide insights that influence decision-making across the organization. The role involves collaboration with various teams to monitor cloud usage, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement best practices in financial operations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various infrastructure & Finance teams to analyze cloud usage patterns and identify areas for cost efficiency.
• Serve as a strategic partner with stakeholders on cost initiatives and align cloud strategy with broader financial goals.
• Partner with leaders across the business and tech organization to provide insightful analysis and influence around infrastructure costs.
• Foster a culture of cost accountability among teams by staying updated on Cloud's evolving service offerings, trends, pricing models, and driving implementation of FinOps best practices.
• Distribute FinOps processes to tech teams and mentor others with suggested improvements to improve cost efficiency.
• Drive and scale continuous cloud cost optimization by implementing frameworks, processes, and solutions.
• Day-to-day oversight of cloud FinOps and management of Cloud budget.
• Analyze, report, and produce significant insights from larger raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools.
• Lead data analysis of cloud expenditure to identify trends, anomalies, and investigate root cause of variances.
• Prepare monthly Cloud Financial management reporting with key insights on consumption and assist with budget alignment across teams.
• Drive cloud efficiency and optimization for savings and cost avoidances.
• Provide expert knowledge on cloud cost optimization strategies and collaborate with Engineering teams to implement solutions.
• Provide timely and regular insightful reporting on costs and cost savings opportunities.
• Develop reporting to increase visibility - show back models, cost allocation process, unit cost analysis, etc.
• Work with internal automation teams to define workflows that allow teams to self-serve reporting.
• Partner with Finance team to create Budgets and achieve financial goals.
• Build financial models for projecting cloud costs and ensure accurate cost estimation.
• Collaborate with capacity teams to develop cost models for new initiatives.

Requirements

• A related technical degree required.
• 10+ years of proven financial analysis, reporting, modeling, and forecasting experience.
• Ability to interpret and present data in a visually compelling format.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to tell a story with numbers.
• Data Analysis skills including queries and building cost forecast models.
• Experience with Public cloud financial tools and cost management.

Nice-to-haves

• SAAS experience.
• FinOps certified practitioner.
• AWS certification.

Benefits

• Wellbeing reimbursement
• Generous parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility benefits