Senior Cloud FinOps Financial Analyst

Location: Barcelona

Role Purpose

 

As Senior Cloud FinOps Financial Analyst lead you will be responsible for setting up overall FinOps governance for Digital Organizations. You will be representing Central FinOps team at Digital FinOps SteerCo. Will be working closely with Digital Units to define and implement Central FinOps processes pertaining to budgeting, forecasting of cloud spends, collate, analyze and prioritize cloud optimization recommendations and calculate potential savings and benefits using different native, Cloudability and self-developed tools. This role expects you to create high quality, client-facing assets targeting Cloud Cost Optimization and present them to key stakeholders and provide expert knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies (e.g. rightsizing, power scheduling). You would have to ensure that optimization recommendations go through the appropriate governance process and get actioned and also collaborate with Cloud Engineering and Cloud Platform teams to implement cost optimization recommendations and best practices

Key Responsibilities

This position is responsible for the design and implementation of FinOps framework, governance, KPI, dashboards to monitor cloud spends across all Sanofi Digital Units

 

The following key activities will be performed by this role:

Perform financial reporting and forecasts, use financial systems and advanced python and MS Excel functions to work with large data sets, and perform headcount reporting, planning and forecasting.Design, develop and maintain reports, Dashboards and KPIs intended for Digital / Business Unit LeadershipSupport the cloud budget and monthly forecast process at Sanofi, collaborating with cross-functional teamsMonitor cloud consumption, detect cost anomalies, perform root cause analysis, and escalate anomalies to top managementAnalyze and report cloud consumption across multiple cloud platforms and multiple Business Units and produce meaningful insights from our Cloud usage monitoring tool (Apptio Cloudability)Provide financial analysis and guidance to calculate Unit EconomicsAssist and collaborate with cross functional teams on each Digital / Business Unit on understanding their cloud spend and achieving their FinOps objectivesCollaborate closely with Procurement in defining commitment discounts by aggregating for all of Sanofi's cloud needs across the CSPWork closely with Global Finance on how to accurately forecast cloud spend and how to evolve the budgeting and forecasting process and tooling as necessaryAssist in creating training material and conduct training on Cloud FinOps for various Sanofi teams

Serve as a FinOps ambassador throughout the organization

Background, Experience and Expected Skills

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Information Technology ManagementFinOps Certified PractitionerCertification in AWS, Azure or GCPUnderstanding of the core Finance & Accounting principles, basic understanding of the accounting processes (budgeting, accruals, etc.)Knowledge and understanding of Public Cloud pricing schemesExperience with native and 3rd party Public Cloud cost management & advisory tools (Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Trusted Advisor, Azure Advisor, GCP Recommender etc.)High proficiency with MS Excel and PowerPointAbility to work independently with strong attention to details and accuracyAbility to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge and practical experience with SQL, PythonExperience with data analysis and data visualization tools (PowerBI, BigQuery, Excel etc.)

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