Job Overview: We are seeking a Cloud FinOps Analyst with a focus on AWS cost analysis to support our growing SaaS product team. In this role, you will work with finance and engineering teams to analyze and report on cloud costs, helping the company optimize resource usage, forecast spending, and achieve financial targets. This role offers an opportunity to develop a solid foundation in cloud financial management while contributing to a dynamic SaaS environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- AWS Cost Analysis: Monitor and analyze AWS usage, focusing on cost trends, variances, and potential savings for our SaaS product.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Assist in monthly and quarterly budget planning and forecasting AWS expenses.
- Cost Optimization: Work with engineering teams to identify cost-saving opportunities in AWS services, such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and right-sizing resources.
- Reporting: Prepare and present regular reports on AWS spend and cost optimization recommendations for the finance and operations teams.
- Financial Modeling: Support the finance team by building and maintaining models to project AWS costs and potential impacts of usage changes.
- Data Management: Collect, organize, and analyze data from various AWS billing tools and third-party financial software to maintain accurate financial records.
- Collaboration: Work closely with finance, SRE, and engineering teams to understand infrastructure needs and optimize costs.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Experience: Internship or 1-2 years in financial analysis, cost analysis, or cloud infrastructure finance preferred.
- Analytical Skills: Proficiency in Excel and familiarity with financial modeling; experience with AWS cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Cloud Health, or Cloud ability) is a plus.
- Technical Knowledge: Understanding of cloud services, particularly AWS products and billing structures, is beneficial.
- Attention to Detail: Strong organizational and analytical skills with a high degree of accuracy.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
What We Offer:
- Opportunity to develop in the high-growth SaaS industry and cloud cost management.
- Professional growth and learning in financial analysis and cloud infrastructure.
- Flexible work environment and hybrid/remote work options
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Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record, with 1,000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
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We're focused on each and every employees' personal and professional development, and offer internal career mobility programs and growth opportunities that make Guidewire unique. Other perks like generous PTO, flexible working, our Guidewire Gives Back charitabeland our "Work From Almost Anywhere" program support our employees' work-life balance
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