As a Sr. Lead FinOps Analyst, you'll lead the FinOps strategy, optimize cloud financial management, and champion cost-saving initiatives while mentoring teams.
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The Impact of a Sr. Lead FinOps Analyst at Coupa:
FinOps is the strategic engine that powers our financial and technology alignment, ensuring every dollar invested in our cloud and infrastructure resources delivers maximum value. As a Sr. Lead FinOps Analyst, you will be a strategic driving force of our FinOps practice, architecting the frameworks and fostering the culture necessary for world-class cloud financial management. You will build and mature a program that directly influences our most critical business objectives, including achieving EBITDA targets, optimizing gross margins, and establishing Coupa as a leader in cloud governance and efficiency.
What You'll Do:
- Strategy & Program Leadership:
- Make the FinOps strategy and roadmap a reality, aligning it with company-wide financial goals and technology initiatives.
- Establish and govern the key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics used to measure the health and success of our cloud financial operations.
- Understand and be able to articulate Coupa’s FinOps landscape, with insight into cost and usage patterns and behavior for all cloud providers, in the context of forecasts and project plans.
- Lead the cloud budgeting and forecasting process, partnering with Finance and Engineering leadership to set ambitious yet achievable targets.
- Integrate AI and Machine Learning (ML) into forecasting models to improve accuracy, identify spend anomalies in real-time, and automate predictive cost modeling.
- Financial Optimization & Governance:
- Champion and orchestrate large-scale cost optimization initiatives, such as commitment-based discount strategies (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans), rightsizing programs, and architectural efficiency reviews, and utilize AI-powered optimization tools to identify savings opportunities.
- Design, implement, and govern sophisticated cloud cost allocation and chargeback/showback models to ensure full cost transparency and accountability.
- Serve as the primary subject matter expert on cloud economics, providing guidance on pricing, new service adoption, and cost implications of architectural decisions.
- Reporting & Executive Insights:
- Deliver the roadmap for FinOps tooling and dashboards, ensuring they provide actionable, real-time insights for audiences ranging from individual engineers to the C-suite.
- Serve as a FinOps advisor to senior leadership, translating complex cost data into strategic narratives, business cases, and actionable recommendations.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Mentorship:
- Act as a FinOps authority and lead collaborator for engineering, finance, accounting, procurement, and cloud operations teams, driving alignment and execution on cost-saving strategies.
- Mentor and develop talent within the organization, formally and informally, to build FinOps expertise across engineering and finance teams.
- Drive the integration of FinOps principles into the core of the engineering and procurement lifecycles, from design and development to vendor negotiation.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- Experience:
- 7+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis and cloud cost management, with demonstrated experience building and scaling a FinOps practice.
- Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional cost optimization programs with measurable, multi-million dollar impact in a major cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Technical & Financial Expertise:
- Expert-level proficiency with cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, CloudZero, or similar).
- Ability to build sophisticated financial models and analyze massive datasets to deliver strategic insights using tools like Excel/Google Sheets and data visualization platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
- Deep expertise in container cost reporting, allocation, and optimization strategies.
- Deep expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and developing unit economic models.
- Proficiency in prompt engineering and using Generative AI tools to streamline data analysis and automate FinOps workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and present business cases for technology and financial investments.
- Leadership & Influence:
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to influence senior leadership and drive consensus across diverse, technical, and non-technical audiences.
- A strategic and autonomous mindset, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, define the path forward, and lead programs from conception to completion.
- Proven ability to mentor and guide others, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
The estimated pay range for this role is $149,000 - $193,500
The starting salary for the successful candidate will be based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
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Aws Cost Explorer
Azure Cost Management
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Coupa
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Google Sheets
Looker
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Power BI
Tableau
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