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FinOps Analyst

Description:

Are you a curious, financially minded individual that enjoys technology? Are you someone who thrives on collaboration to help solve problems and drive financial success? If so, check out CME Group’s opportunity to be a FinOps Analyst. FinOps will result in a cultural shift for finance, technology, and business leaders by delivering financial accountability through the lens of a variable-spend cloud model.

 

The Team:

The FinOps team was created as CME Group embarked on its journey to the cloud. The team is centralized within the Finance division, but works in lock step with the Technology division at all levels. FinOps is one of the most visible teams within the organization.

 

About the Role:

Support generating and reviewing cost and usage reports across the entire cloud footprint, both GCP and AWS. Generate summaries and recommendations and present them to the Director of FinOps. Participate in the development of new features to help teams identify and action optimization opportunities. Support the cultural change to a company wide FinOps mindset through education and communication.

 

Principle Accountabilities:

  • Support the FinOps team in finding optimization opportunities
  • Review, maintain and build new BI reports
  • Build and maintain a process for improving resource labeling in the cloud
  • Respond and act upon customer feedback related to BI reports
  • Daily monitoring of the cloud bill, provide summaries and recommendations
  • Build relationships across finance, technology and the business through excellent customer service and responsiveness

 

Skills & Software Requirements

  • Must be able to obtain FinOps Practitioner and GCP Digital Cloud Leader Certifications within 6 months of hire
  • Basic knowledge of the major hyperscalers, preferably Google Cloud
  • Strong Excel experience (or Google Sheets) including vlookups, pivot tables and graphics
  • Ability to work with large datasets and various visualization tools

 

Experience

  • Internships in related field and/or financial services companies preferred

 

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree required preferably in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Computer Science