FinOps Practitioner; Remote

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Job Description ## About the Role Cisco is hiring a Fin Ops Practitioner to support Splunk Cloud Fin Ops with cloud cost visibility, commitment management, and financial accountability. The role focuses on turning public cloud and AI consumption into measurable business value, with an emphasis on AWS Savings Plans, cloud spend analysis, and cost optimization.

This position works across engineering, finance, architecture, and product teams to connect technical decisions with cloud gross margin outcomes. It is an individual contributor role with no direct reports and includes responsibility for translating spend into actionable financial insight.

The team is also expanding into AI enablement, including applying AI to Fin Ops work and improving cost management for token-based services.##

Key Responsibilities – Lead analysis and execution of AWS Savings Plan purchases to improve commitment coverage while managing utilization and over commitment risk.  – Convert public cloud and AI token-based spend into financial insights that support Splunk Cloud gross margin.  – Partner with engineering, finance, architecture, and product teams to drive cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.  – Build forecasts, dashboards, and executive-level reporting that clearly communicate spend trends, savings, and risks.  

– Support sound commitment decisions and help deliver sustained improvements in savings plan coverage and cost efficiency.  – Operate as an individual contributor without direct reports.## Required Skills– Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, economics, computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.  – Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of related experience, or master’s degree plus 3 years of related experience.  

– At least 3 years of experience in Fin Ops, cloud financial management, or enterprise cloud cost management.  – Hands-on AWS cost management experience.  – Experience analyzing AWS Reservations and Savings Plans, including purchase sizing, coverage, utilization, and over commitment risk.  – Experience building cloud forecasts, budgets, cost models, dashboards, and analyses using advanced Excel or Google Sheets functions, including pivot tables and complex formulas.  

– Ability to obtain a Fin Ops Certified Practitioner or Fin Ops Certified Professional credential within 90 days of hire.## Preferred Skills– Experience managing cloud costs in Azure or GCP in addition to AWS.  

– Experience with Cloudability, Cloud Health, Flexera, or similar enterprise cloud cost management platforms.  

– Experience with Amazon Athena, SQL, Python, business intelligence tools, or cloud billing APIs for cost analysis and reporting.  – Experience managing AI and token-based consumption or applying AI to Fin Ops analysis, anomaly detection, forecasting, automation, or reporting.  – Experience leading cross-functional Fin Ops initiatives in a large enterprise, especially in infrastructure architecture, software engineering, SRE, or Dev Ops environments.##

Cloud Platforms & Technologies### Cloud Providers  – AWS  – Azure  – GCP### Fin Ops Platforms  – Cloudability  – Cloud Health  – Flexera### Data & Analytics  – Amazon Athena  – SQL  – Python  – Cloud billing APIs### Reporting & BI  – Business intelligence tools  – Dashboards  – Executive reporting### Collaboration Tools  – Excel  – Google Sheets  – Pivot tables  – Complex formulas## Fin Ops Responsibilities– Analyze and manage AWS Savings Plan purchases.  

– Improve commitment coverage while controlling utilization and over commitment risk.  – Translate cloud and AI spend into financial insights that inform gross margin outcomes.  – Drive cloud cost optimization across multiple cloud providers.  – Build forecasts, budgets, cost…