DD&T Business Analyst Cloud FinOps
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You would be part of the Cloud Business Office team’s FinOps squad which focuses on working with engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure they are leveraging the full economic potential of Cloud through sound cloud financial management. You would be using both financial and technical acumen to collaborate across multiple business owners to help drive successful IT transformation by explaining the value proposition of the Cloud model to all our business unit stakeholders, ensuring there is minimal to no waste and continuously helping optimize our usage for the greatest value to Takeda.
What you’ll be doing:
- Manage critical relationships with stakeholders like engineers, Finance business partners, FinOps key stakeholders, cloud architects, and key vendors (ie. AWS).
- Keeping up to-date with latest, more performant, and cost-effective services launched by AWS, analyze its applicability to Takeda applications and promote its usage amongst engineers and business owners.
- Promote FinOps mind-set to all the cloud-using teams while being mindful of various challenges that exist across a large application portfolio.
- Constantly monitor cloud spend for each business unit and work with engineers to implement optimization opportunities including help advise on Reservation/Savings Plan purchases.
- Build and maintain reports including dashboards suitable for key stakeholders of cloud.
- Build plans, budgets, forecasts and variance analysis on cloud consumption.
- Link activity into financial processes and cycles for example providing variance analysis to budgets during month-end reporting.
- Ensure chargeback and showback processes are fully operational.
- Establish guardrails / policies to detect and remove usage waste.
- Continuously improve front door and in-life processes, ensuring the right data is captured to drive all aspects of cost transparency, optimization, and financial accountability.
- Work with Finance teams to ensure correct accounting is applied according Group Accounting Policy and assisting in booking accruals during financial close.
Required Skills:
- Experience building and managing Cloud Cost analysis & visualizations using tools like Apptio, MS Excel, Power BI or any other similar tool.
- Good with data queries, generating actionable, concise, and presentable data visualizations.
- Understanding of AWS Cloud fundamentals in FinOps to manage Cloud Budget, Forecast, Spend monitoring, purchasing various Commitments, deriving Cloud Cost Optimization across the Organization.
Desired:
- Experience with developing scripts using languages like Python, SQL, and Terraform to implement automated cost optimization control & attribution policies.
- Certification in FinOps Foundation practitioner is desired.
- Certification in AWS fundamentals or higher would be preferred.
What Takeda can offer you:
No investment we make pays greater dividends than taking good care of our people. We offer you a full range of benefits, such as:
Your Wealth
- Competitive Salary
- Annual Bonus
- Referral Bonus
- Social Fund (Christmas Bonus, Holiday Allowance tec.)
- Employee Recognition
Your Health
- Medical Care - various packages for the employee fully sponsored by Takeda. Family packages additionally paid by employee.
- Eyeglass refund
Your Future
- Group Life Insurance
- Employee Capital Plans
- A broad variety of learning platforms
- Professional Growth opportunities including mentoring program.
- Next-Generation Series – our comprehensive offer of internal webinars available to all employees from day 1
Your Well-Being
- Subsidized Sport Card
- Takeda Sport & engagement teams
- One additional day-off for voluntary activities
- Fruits in the office, broad variety of coffee and tea
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working
- Employee assistance program
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Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where individuals are recognized for the diverse backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continually improving workplace experience and accessibility for everyone, and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our Team.
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