Cloud FinOps Value Assurance Engineer - Virtual

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to "Be Alight."

Our Values:

Champion People - be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose - Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight - act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com.

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Collect and analyze data to provide financial and operational insights critical to the success of the organization. This will include monitoring cloud usage and spending data to identify cost-saving opportunities. With a heavy focus on the cloud, you will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness around cloud consumption. This role will provide financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting, consumption analysis including KPIs, show back, analytics, and capacity.

You'll accomplish this through the use of:

• Financial Analytics: Utilize analytical techniques to present information which supports business decisions. Undertakes formatting and communication of results, using textual, numeric, graphical and other visualization methods appropriate to the target audience.
• Financial accountability: Advises on financial planning and budgeting. Directs financial plans and forecasts. Monitors and manages IT expenditure, ensuring that all IT financial targets are met, and examining any areas where budgets and expenditure exceed their agreed tolerances. Advises on the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making, cloud spending cost models and the allocation and apportionment of all incurred IT costs. Manages actual expenditure, explains variances, and advises on options in use of available budget.
• Cloud Services: Leverage technical expertise to analyze operational systems related to cloud FinOps strategies. Leverage enterprise management tools to assess performance statistics and offer guidance on capacity planning.
  

Key Functions and Responsibilities:

• Development and Enhancement of Governance Framework:Evolve the cloud financial management framework and governance processes, along with associated toolsets.
• Cloud Cost Optimization: Keep up with the latest cost optimization strategies and technologies.

• Formulate insights and new strategies for cloud optimization, presenting viable solutions to the leadership team.

• Drive FinOps value by aiding customers in understanding their cloud spending aligned with business goals and budget.
• Financial Reporting and Tracking:

• Generate and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports, aligning cloud costs with financial budgets and forecasting.
• Monitor and track customers at risk, initiating the necessary escalation processes.

• Resource Reporting and Optimization

• Provide comprehensive reporting on Azure and AWS resources, furnishing actionable intelligence for optimization efforts.

• Contribute to aligning cloud costs with overall financial budgets, forecasting, and actuals.

• Collaboration and Partnership:

• Work on effective design, analysis, and remediation of control measures in partnership with the global governance team.

• Offer guidance, assess control standards, and procedures.

• Identify emerging risks, threats, and deficiencies in key controls, raise awareness and propose solutions.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Develop dashboards using cloud native tooling and reports to analyze, monitor, and report on Alight's consumption of Cloud and related services to proactively identify opportunities for optimization.
• Monitor cloud consumption to detect, investigate, manage anomalies alerts and unplanned spikes.
• Work with various stakeholders to help them understand their cloud spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes.
• Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights within cloud platforms and tools, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
• Support in developing a team with skills required to transition Alight into an organization which has best-in-class approach to technology vendor/partner management.
  Development of and adherence to policies and procedures to ensure all work is executed to a high standard.
• Communicate across multiple internal customer partners, from Product Teams to Finance partners and other key business stakeholders.
• Other duties assigned or required to meet the business needs.
  

Essentials for success:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or applicable work experience.
• 5 years financial operation experience with specific focus on IT and cloud financial management
• 3 years working with Cloud providers to ensure adherence to governance
• Proven track record and experience of Cloud provider tools and billing mechanics.
• Experience managing cloud costing or similar cost consumption and capacity planning models within AWS and Azure
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management in both formal and informal situations.
• Able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks, while demonstrating poise in a high-pressure environment.
• Extremely self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
• Minimal travel required (training/conferences)

It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com.

Flexible Working

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and "Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs" 5 years in a row.

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it's important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options.

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Alight is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

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Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.