Lead Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

$130,000-$160,000 + VIP Bonus

$150000 - $160000 / year

10 / 13 / 2015

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Lead Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Analyst who thrives at the intersection of cloud technology, finance, and business reporting.

You will be part of the team that establishes how we understand, optimize, and act on our AWS cloud spend. Your ability to translate data into insights, and insights into measurable savings, will directly shape our ability to scale efficiently. You’ll partner with engineering, finance and product teams to make our cloud economics strategy an advantage for the organization.

Core Duties and Responsibilities :

What You’ll Do

• Analyze and Optimize AWS Spend
• Own detailed cost and usage analysis, including Reserved Instance and Savings Plan utilization, anomaly detection, and spend forecasting.
• Identify trends and opportunities for cost reduction without compromising performance or business outcomes.
• Drive Savings Execution
• Move beyond analysis—present action plans to leadership, assist in securing alignment, and follow through on execution of savings initiatives.
• Partner with engineering teams to right-size workloads, modernize architectures, and shift spend patterns.
• Build Organizational Awareness
• Create clear reporting, dashboards, and narratives that explain cloud economics, risks, opportunities and decision points to stakeholders from engineers to department leadership.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, ensuring decisions around cloud growth are data driven.
• Deliver monthly FinOps reports to stakeholders, highlighting variances, trends, and savings opportunities.
• Enable a FinOps Culture
• Champion cost accountability across teams by enabling FinOps practices for engineering roadmaps and financial planning cycles.
• Educate teams on AWS billing constructs, optimization levers, and trade-offs.

What We’re Looking For

Additional Requirements and Details :

Why Join Us

This is not a role where you’ll be maintaining reports in isolation. It’s a role where your analysis will directly influence strategic decisions and your execution will be visible across the company.

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.

Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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