Senior FinOps / Cloudability SME
artisan analytixBaltimore, MD
$160,000-$190,000
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Senior FinOps Analyst / Cloudability SMEDashboards, Reporting & Analytics
Company: Artisan Analytix
Compensation: $160,000-$190,000 Engagement: 1099 Independent Contractor
Location:
Primarily remote, United States; occasional preapproved client-site attendance may be required Expected commitment: Up to 40 hours per week, based on authorized project needs
About the opportunity:
Artisan Analytix is seeking a senior Cloud FinOps professional with deep, hands-on expertise in IBM Apptio Cloudability to build and evolve the client-facing dashboard, reporting, and analytics experience for a complex public-sector cloud environment. You will translate cloud cost and consumption data into clear, visually effective dashboards and meaningful business insights. Working directly with client stakeholders and alongside IT financial management, cloud engineering, and platform teams, you will connect technical data to the agencies, projects, applications, services, and business priorities it supports. Your work should help clients understand what they are spending, what is driving changes, which projects and services are affected, where opportunities exist, and what action to take next. This engagement offers substantial ownership of the reporting experience, direct interaction with client stakeholders, and the opportunity to shape how leaders understand and manage their cloud investments. Demonstrated experience personally configuring and building dashboards and reports inside Cloudability is required.
What you will do:
- Translate client needs into reporting solutions. Lead discussions with executive, finance, business, and technical stakeholders to understand their questions, define useful KPIs, and turn requirements into a prioritized dashboard and reporting roadmap.* Design and configure custom Cloudability dashboards and reports. Build and refine dashboards, widgets, visualizations, filters, dimensions, metrics, and Views for different audiences. Create clear layouts and useful paths from executive summaries to supporting detail.* Connect cloud spending to business context. Use Business Mappings, Business Dimensions, Account Groups, tags, labels, and other available attributes to organize costs by agency, project, application, service, environment, cost center, and accountable owner. Make shared costs and unmapped spending visible and understandable.* Develop meaningful financial and operational metrics. Select appropriate cost measures, configure Business Metrics, and use other supported calculations to answer client questions. Establish consistent definitions for trends, variances, allocation, efficiency, and unit costs where supporting business data is available.* Turn analysis into a clear client narrative. Analyze spending and consumption trends, period-over-period changes, budget performance, forecasts, anomalies, and major cost drivers. Explain what changed, why it changed, the business impact, and the recommended response through dashboards, written summaries, and client presentations.* Surface practical optimization opportunities. Interpret available rightsizing, idle-resource, and commitment-discount insights. Work with technical owners to validate opportunities, explain trade-offs, prioritize actions, and distinguish potential savings from verified results.* Build confidence in the data. Validate reporting periods, account coverage, data freshness, metric selection, and allocation logic. Investigate discrepancies against agreed source data and financial definitions, and coordinate with platform and data teams to resolve issues affecting reporting accuracy.* Deliver a reporting experience clients can use confidently. Establish recurring reports and review materials, conduct demonstrations and user walkthroughs, and incorporate feedback. Document metric definitions and configuration logic, and coordinate appropriate Views and sharing with platform administrators. What you bring* Substantial, recent hands-on Cloudability experience, including personally creating and maintaining custom dashboards, reports, widgets, business mappings, and stakeholder-specific views.* A strong background in FinOps, cloud financial management, IT financial analytics, or a closely related discipline, with evidence of independently delivering reporting solutions for enterprise stakeholders.* Practical understanding of AWS and Microsoft Azure cost and consumption data, including account structures, subscriptions, services, tags, pricing, discounts, and commitments. Google Cloud experience is highly desirable.* The ability to select and explain appropriate cost measures, including amortized and adjusted costs, and to distinguish financial cost data from utilization-based estimates.* Strong analytical judgment: you can investigate a spending change, assess alternative explanations, validate your findings, and identify the decision the analysis should support.* Excellent dashboard design and data visualization skills, including thoughtful chart selection, clear labels, consistent definitions, and an intuitive experience for nontechnical users.* Confident client communication and facilitation skills. You can clarify an ambiguous request, present a prototype, explain technical findings in plain language, and refine the solution through feedback.* The ability to manage your deliverables independently while collaborating effectively with finance, cloud engineering, platform administration, and business stakeholders. Additional experience we value* Google Cloud cost analytics and reporting across multiple cloud providers.* Public-sector, multi-agency, managed-services, or other complex enterprise environments.* Apptio ITFM/TBM and an understanding of how cloud consumption reporting relates to enterprise financial reporting.* Power BI, Apptio BI, SQL, Excel, or approved APIs and exports for complementary analysis.* FinOps or relevant IBM Apptio/Cloudability certifications.* Experience improving dashboard adoption, reporting consistency, or the quality of client decision-making.
What success looks like:
- Clients can quickly understand spending by project, agency, application, and service, with clear visibility into the most significant changes.* Dashboards answer agreed business questions and provide a clear path to supporting detail.* Metrics are consistently defined, material data limitations are visible, and reporting discrepancies are investigated and explained.* Insights lead to prioritized decisions and actions, with clear ownership and follow-through.* Stakeholders use the dashboards regularly and can navigate the information with confidence.
How to apply:
Please send your résumé through LinkedIn with a brief summary of:* The Cloudability dashboards and reporting solutions you have personally built.* Your experience with Business Mappings, custom metrics, and cloud cost analysis.* Your availability and anticipated start date. A sanitized example or a brief walkthrough of previous Cloudability work is welcome. Please use only materials you are authorized to share. Engagement start, final schedule, and any travel requirements will be coordinated through the selection and client-onboarding process.
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