Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst

Horizon3.ai

Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst at Horizon3.ai optimizing cloud spend and enabling data-driven financial decisions for product features. Build dashboards and forecast models while collaborating with engineering teams.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $240,570 - $297,000 per yearWebsite

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Hard Skills

SQLcloud spend analysisbilling analysisdata analysiscost reportingforecast modelingtagging taxonomyunit economics trackinganomaly investigationcost driver identification

Soft Skills

strong communicationindependent investigationanalytical thinkingcollaborationproblem-solving

Tools & Technologies

AWSGCPAzureAWS QuickSightGCP Data StudioTableauLookerExcelGoogle SheetsBI tooling

Industry Keywords

FinOpsB2B SaaSmulti-tenant architecturespend visibilitycost attributioncloud vendor billingspend alarmsproduct portfolio metricsAI token usagecost per customer

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build spend visibility dashboards broken down by product, product feature, tenant, and team
Partner with Engineering infra and product teams to define tagging taxonomy, identify tagging gaps, and improve tagging to enable reporting
Make Cloud and AI spend billing data available in analytics and reporting tools, and with automated export to Excel / Google Sheets and finance systems
Develop cloud spend forecast models that incorporate sales forecasts and product roadmap initiatives
Define spend alarms based on budgets and forecasts
Drive investigations of spend incidents
Build capabilities to track unit economics of the product portfolio
Partner with product feature teams to drive visibility on metrics such as cost per customer, per operation, per API request, and AI token usage rates

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience as a FinOps cloud spend analyst on a major cloud provider
Deep familiarity with cost and usage data and SQL based billing analysis, preferably on AWS
Strong exploratory data analysis skills in SQL
Ability to analyze and explore large, complex billing datasets
Experienced in analysis of a cloud vendor’s billing data in SQL
Able to independently investigate anomalies, identify cost drivers, and answer questions on spend
Experience in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS company with a multi-tenant architecture
Familiarity with the challenge of attributing shared infrastructure costs to specific customers or product features
Must have built cost reporting and dashboards for spend visibility
Experience in BI tooling such as AWS QuickSight, GCP Data Studio, Tableau, Looker, or similar
Spreadsheet skills
Experience working with Engineering on tagging and labelling and driving cost visibility into development processes
Familiarity with AWS/GCP/Azure savings mechanisms
Strong communication skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
Flexible vacation policy
Generous parental leave