Cloud Financial Operations Specialist

UDR is seeking qualified candidates for a Cloud Financial Operations Specialist opportunity in Charleston, West Virginia.

• Cost Optimization: Analyze daily usage and drive right-sizing or waste reduction.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Build financial models and track budget variances.
• Governance & Tagging: Enforce resource naming and tagging standards for accurate cost allocation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, finance, and leadership to build a culture of financial accountability.
• Showback/Chargeback: Manage cost-sharing models so business units see their exact cloud consumption. [1, 2, 3, 4]

• Cloud Fin Ops Specialist must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience in cloud cost management and optimization (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or third-party tools like Cloud Health).
• Cloud Fin Ops Specialist must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience performing cloud usage analysis, Reserved Instance (RI) / Savings Plan management, and right-sizing recommendations.
• Cloud Fin Ops Specialist must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience creating financial dashboards and reporting for executive leadership.
• Cloud Fin Ops Specialist should have strong analytical skills to correlate cloud usage data with business value.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Accounting, or Business.
• Experience: 3 to 7+ years in IT financial management, financial analysis, or cloud operations.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Proficiency in AWS, Azure, or GCP pricing models, plus tools like Apptio Cloudability, Cloud Zero, or Power BI.
• Certifications: Fin Ops Certified Practitioner preferred

UDR Consulting, INC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Woman-Owned, Minority-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business. An Equal Opportunity Employer that considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected Veterans, or individuals with disabilities. UDR also supports a drug-free work environment.

UDR offers highly competitive salaries and employee benefit packages structured to best suit your needs.

• paid time off, medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance, and a pre-tax 401 (k) retirement account with Company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning DAY 1.