FinOps Analyst -Remote

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future.

These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

At Ellucian, we believe in the transformative power of education, and our cloud solutions are central to powering that transformation for colleges and universities around the world. The Fin Ops team supports the development, scalability, and financial sustainability of Ellucian's cloud solutions through effective governance, financial transparency, and cross-functional collaboration.

The team helps establish organizational accountability for technology consumption and costs while maximizing the business value of cloud and other consumption-based technology investments. Success is measured through predictable and scalable costs, effective governance, improved financial visibility, and measurable optimization outcomes.

As a Fin Ops Analyst, you will help drive financial accountability, governance, and optimization across Ellucian's cloud and technology investments. You will independently own assigned Fin Ops initiatives, analyze technology consumption and spending, identify opportunities for improvement, and partner with technical and business stakeholders to translate financial and operational data into actionable decisions.

• Own and drive Fin Ops initiatives within assigned areas of responsibility, improving visibility, accountability, governance, and optimization across cloud and technology consumption and spend.
• Analyze cloud and third-party technology usage, cost, and operational data to identify trends, anomalies, cost drivers, financial risks, and opportunities for optimization.
• Identify, quantify, prioritize, and track cost optimization opportunities, partnering with technology owners and stakeholders to implement improvements and measure realized savings, cost avoidance, and business value.
• Support and improve Fin Ops governance practices, including resource tagging, metadata standards, cost allocation, ownership, policy compliance, and controls that enable accurate financial accountability.
• Monitor consumption-based technology platforms and services, including Datadog, to understand usage patterns, evaluate cost drivers, forecast financial impact, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and value.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, forecasts, and key performance indicators that provide visibility into technology consumption, optimization progress, governance compliance, and financial performance.
• Support budgeting and forecasting activities by analyzing historical consumption, growth trends, business drivers, and planned technology changes to improve financial predictability.
• Utilize cloud financial management, observability, analytics, and Fin Ops tools to support operational requirements, financial analysis, and technology optimization initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders across Cloud Engineering/Operations, R&D, Product, Finance, Procurement, and other business functions to integrate Fin Ops practices into day-to-day technology planning and decision-making.
• Investigate unexpected consumption or cost changes, collaborating with technical teams to identify contributing factors, assess financial impact, and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
• Help evaluate and establish financial governance for emerging technologies and consumption models, including SaaS, observability, data platforms, and AI services as organizational needs evolve.
• Identify opportunities to improve Fin Ops processes, controls, reporting, and operational effectiveness through automation, improved analytics,…