Cloud FinOps Analyst

Cloud FinOps Analyst Gurgaon, Haryana, India AXA XL Global Technology (GT) division has been going through significant transformation including simplification of applications landscape across geographies and business units, Cloud transformation and migration to strategic platforms, as well as operating model transformation to support upcoming technological and business process changes. These include centralizing, previously regionalized support teams, setting modernized standards and processes to allow us to support the business in a responsive and flexible way, while providing a follow-the-sun methodology. The FinOps team provides critical support, not only to the Cloud Platform team, but to engineering teams across XL. They are the assurance and governance specialists for cloud and are key to ensuring a cost-effective and optimized service exists in our cloud environments. What you’ll be DOING What will your essential responsibilities include? Support the development of FinOps reporting capabilities to ensure it meets the need of our stakeholders and provide timely, transparent and accurate cloud consumption costing information. Ensure all relevant recommendations are reviewed at department level, providing difficult and assistance where appropriate. Leverage the Cloud ability tool as your day-to-day source of truth, but maintaining existing Power BI FinOps dashboards including tagging standard compliance, as a backup. Work with application and product teams to help identify, implement and track financial optimizations such as reservations, hybrid licensing and rightsizing initiatives. Join AXA Group’s FinOps community to gain from and share learnings. Help produce quarterly reporting required by Group. Create content for FinOps Governance Forum ensuring stakeholders are well informed and actions are tracked. Maintain a good understanding of the cloud provider pricing models so that accurate and concise information can be provided to engineering and development teams. Reconciliation of monthly invoices to our CSP usage and ensure that service credits are given where applicable and that we are tracking against committed spend. Proactively investigate anomalies, working with the relevant teams and problem management process. Implement the budget and alert framework for any threshold spikes or anomalies to take preventative action if necessary. Assist building of the FinOps community within our Application Teams to increase maturity and ensure they have the Fin/Ops knowledge they need to be responsible for their own costs. You will report to Global Head of IT Operations. What you will BRING We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills: Required Skills and Abilities: Preferably experienced as a FinOps Analyst with finance background and experience. E.g., FinOps Certified Practitioner, Cost Management & Finance Qualifications. Willingness to remain current with certification and best practice. Proven ability in conducting and presenting sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translating the results into actionable deliverables, messages, and presentations. Robust financial and analytical skills with ideally good experience in Cloud Service Consumption Modelling tools in a large-scale IT infrastructure and application environment. Good understanding of cloud computing technologies, AZ900 Azure Fundamentals would be beneficial. Deep experience of Microsoft Office Suite required (extensive knowledge of Power BI and Excel required). Robust written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of presenting to senior management. Excellent stakeholder management skills with proven ability to build solid business relationships. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. Able to operate successfully in a lean, fast-paced organization, and to create a vision and organization that can scale quickly. Highly organized, demonstrated ability to successfully multi-task and efficiently deliver results in ambiguous situations. Desired Skills and Abilities: Previous experience in an organization of similar-size and complexity. Previous experience working with a centralized group function. Service management or service delivery experience. Who WE are AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it. How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty. With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward. Learn more at axaxl.com What we OFFER Inclusion AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. 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