Senior Cloud Business Consultant; FinOps

As a Senior Cloud Business Consultant (Fin Ops) you will work directly with a book of enterprise customers to help them align their cloud technology adoption with their business strategies in the Fin Ops space. You will have the opportunity to advise the world’s largest AWS, GCP, and Azure customers on topics related to Fin Ops. From cloud financial management, organizational governance, to cloud economics and cost allocation best practices, this role sits at the intersection of cloud, and you will have the opportunity to work with leaders in Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Dev Ops, and Fin Ops.

Our primary services are designed to help customers mature through their Fin Ops journey, and your responsibility will be to advise, track progress, and help customers implement their cloud financial management roadmap, as they move through the Crawl -->
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In addition to supporting our customers, you will help us develop new strategies for the team, remain current in the market with our services, as well as help us identify other opportunities where we can work more deeply with our customers through our other managed and professional services offerings.

Work location:
Remote in the U.S.A.

Candidates who reside within 40 miles of our San Antonio office will work in a hybrid location: work from home three days a week and in the office two days a week.

Critical Competencies:

• Excellence: Exceeds expectations by consistently demonstrating accountability, discipline, high performance, and a proven track record of exceptional results.
• Customer-driven: Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction through collaborative and proactive problem-solving, and an unwavering commitment to customer success.
• Expertise: Possesses a deep understanding of Fin Ops and the ability to meet customers where they are in their journey and help them accelerate their success.
• Agility: The ability to adapt and respond to competing customer requests while working in a supportive and team-oriented manner. In addition, the ability to think outside the box and bring new innovative approaches to our practice.
• Compassion: Cultivates a positive and supportive environment to effectively work together towards a common goal, fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders.

• Manage and deliver fast-paced, high-impact engagements with enterprise companies, resulting in further adoption of Fin Ops best practices and increased cloud maturity for our customers.
• Build relationships with client-side and internal stakeholders across various business groups to drive successful engagements.
• Deliver recommendations on topics ranging from cloud financial management, budgets, showback and chargeback, organizational management, policy and governance, and other topics related to Fin Ops.
• The potential to serve as a multi-cloud subject-matter expert, helping clients plan and execute efficient adoption and integration of cloud technologies and platforms across all three hyperscalers, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Enable clients to understand and use their cloud data across technical and non-technical business units.
• The ability to support large contractual negotiations, such as the AWS Private Pricing Program.
• Excellent data analysis skills and strong comfort in data presentation using tools such as Excel, Power
  
  BI, Alteryx, SQL and other data analysis techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to reach a wide range of senior technology leaders both within our organization and with our customers.

• Foundational knowledge of AWS, Azure or GCP, preferably AWS.
• Deep understanding of public cloud Fin Ops best practices. Fin Ops certifications preferred.
• Understanding of other core public cloud functionality, such as AWS organizational structure, IAM roles and policies, Private Pricing Programs, as well as an understanding of how a cloud resale business operates.
• Strong data analysis skills and the ability to translate data into insights in a simple and elegant way.
• Background in business, finance or engineering preferred.