Financial Operations Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
The Financial Operations Manager will join the Finance team and collaborate with senior management and various departments to optimize cloud financial operations. Key responsibilities include developing cost models, providing reports on cloud spend, building a culture of cost optimization, establishing best practices for cloud optimization, collaborating with various teams to understand usage patterns, driving cost-effective decisions, and implementing financial governance. The role requires a candidate who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about operational efficiency.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in technology or finance or equivalent.
- 10 years of FinOps management experience in public cloud.
- Strong knowledge of cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience in building financial models and forecasting.
- Advanced data analysis and interpretation skills.
Perks:
- Equity in the form of non-qualifying options
- High-quality health benefits
- Retirement Plan with employer match
- Career-growth opportunities
- Flexible Time Off and Paid Time Off benefits
- Volunteer opportunities
5 skills required
Job Details
Job ID 26-127(2)
Come join our passionate team! Barracuda is a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats. Our platform protects email, data, applications, and networks with innovative solutions, and a managed XDR service, to strengthen cyber resilience. Hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and managed service providers worldwide trust us to protect and support them with solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use.
We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and equitable compensation regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.
Envision yourself at Barracuda
Barracuda Networks is looking for a Financial Operations Manager to join the Finance team. In this high-impact role, you will have a direct connection to Barracuda’s growth and financial success by collaborating with senior management and various departments including Finance, IT, Cloud Operations, Security, Engineering and Product Management. You will play a critical role in optimizing our cloud financial operations using best-in-class tools and industry practices. This strategic position is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and is passionate about driving operational efficiency at scale.
What you’ll be working on
- Develop and present to the Product Leadership team reusable cost models for new initiatives, influencing product decisions and providing input to business cases
- Provide weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports/analysis of cloud spend, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency
- Build a culture focused on cost optimization and sustainable growth
- Develop a set of best practices and governance to ensure the technical optimization of cloud and third-party services to ensure costs are optimized
- Collaborate closely with the Cloud Operations, Product Engineering, and Product Management teams to understand cloud usage patterns and identify areas for cost optimization
- Partner with Product Engineering teams to drive cost-effective decisions, design cost projection models, analyze costs to understand root causes and lead critical projects to improve cost allocation efficiency
- Work cross-functionally to establish chargeback and show back models for cloud costs
- Model out costs and impact to Cost to serve (CTS) and margins
- Recommend, track, and report on cost optimization opportunities
- Implement and maintain financial governance and controls across cloud platforms
- Own and evolve our reservations and commitments strategy
- Establish and tracking cloud cost optimization KPIs
What you bring to the role
- Bachelor's degree in a technology field, finance field or equivalent work experience
- 10 years of relevant work experience, including FinOps management in public cloud cost and optimization
- Strong knowledge of Cloud service providers (ideally AWS and/or GCP/Azure) and their consumption models and billing concepts
- Experience in building financial models including accounting treatment, budgeting and forecasting
- Advanced data, analytical and interpretation knowledge, modelling and defining meaningful KPIs related to technical and cloud expenditure
- Ability to create new business insights from concept through to delivery
- Familiarity with Agile environments (epics / stories / acceptance criteria)
- Hybrid location preferences: Ann Arbor MI, Chelmsford MA, Ottawa CAN
What you’ll get from us
A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda.
- Equity, in the form of non-qualifying options
- High-quality health benefits
- Retirement Plan with employer match
- Career-growth opportunities
- Flexible Time Off and Paid Time Off benefits
- Volunteer opportunities
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