Senior FinOps Analyst at Solarwinds

Cloud Monitoring & Reporting: Own and maintain a standardized process, using data analytics and reporting tools, providing context on cloud spending to senior leadership and keeping internal teams informed about their cloud usage and costs.
Cloud Financial Management: Coordinate with finance, senior leadership, and directors to manage the cloud lifecycle and identify financial constraints for cloud strategy across all teams and cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Cost Optimization: Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive execution on opportunities to reduce costs and increase the value of cloud investments.
EDP Agreements: Advise senior leadership on negotiating reseller agreements, track progress towards commitments, and ensure the organization's cloud strategy is reflective of any obligations.
Private Rate Discounts: Engage with 3rd-parties offering service-specific discounts and coordinate with engineering teams to review and implement.
Contractor Management: Coordinate with engineering contractors and their project managers to enforce cost constraints and include FinOps best practices in the statement of work.
Cost Allocation & Chargeback: Coordinate with Accounts Payable and FP&A to ensure cloud costs are correctly allocated and book chargebacks from shared services and bulk discounts.
Cloud Strategy & Governance: Establish a FinOps program to promote best practices, define policies and standards (e.g. chargeback, tagging, resource deployments), and enforce cost visibility and accountability.
Initiative Tracking & Reporting: Define clear KPIs to monitor the realized financial results of completed cloud initiatives and the forecasted results of future initiatives.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with directors and engineering teams to align optimizations with development initiatives to create a cloud strategy that delivers within financial constraints.
Capacity Optimization: Manage the purchase of pre-ordered capacity for the organization (e.g. savings plans, reserved instances, pricing tiers) to balance savings with flexibility while avoiding waste.
Tooling & Automation: Oversee and optimize the FinOps tool stack (e.g. Cloud Health, native cloud tools, and custom data analytics) to drive speed, accuracy, and quality of FinOps data and automation.
SaaS Spend Governance: Build and maintain a comprehensive SaaS spend management program that provides full visibility into the organization's software subscriptions, licenses, and vendor contracts.
SaaS Inventory & License Management: Maintain an authoritative inventory of all SaaS subscriptions and licenses across business units, identify redundant or underutilized tools, and work with procurement to rationalize the portfolio.
Vendor & Contract Optimization: Partner with procurement and legal to negotiate SaaS agreements, enforce renewal governance, and identify consolidation opportunities that reduce total cost of ownership.
SaaS Cost Allocation & Chargeback: Establish chargeback/showback frameworks for SaaS costs by team, product, and cost center to drive accountability and align spend with business value.
SaaS Policy & Controls: Define and enforce SaaS procurement policies including approval workflows, acceptable-use standards, and shadow IT controls to prevent unauthorized spend.
Usage & Adoption Analytics: Leverage SaaS management platforms (e.g. Zylo, Torii, Flexera, or Apptio) to track license utilization and adoption rates, flagging low-

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