IT Cloud Planning Analyst

4 Months ago • All levels • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

The IT Cloud Planning Analyst at Wildlife is responsible for understanding and analyzing cloud costs, identifying risks and opportunities, and building the technology budget. This role involves tracking actual costs against the budget, working with technology teams to manage deviations, establishing cost benchmarks, and presenting opportunities for improvement to engineering teams. The analyst will also produce monthly reports on IT infrastructure usage and own the monthly accruals process. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, resourceful, and possesses strong analytical and communication skills.
Must have:
  • Cost analysis and forecasting
  • Proficient in Excel/Google Sheets
  • Data discovery tools (Looker, PowerBI)
  • Public cloud experience (AWS preferred)
  • SQL knowledge
  • Budgeting and reporting
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with large unstructured datasets

Job Details

We're looking for a talented and passionate Planning Analyst to join Wildlife's Cloud Economics team.

The IT Cloud Planning Analyst is key to ensure we understand our costs, analysing their drivers and identifying risks / opportunities. You will be responsible for building the technology budget and tracking actual costs against it throughout the year, working with the technology teams to avoid deviations. In order to set enriched and objective goals for the different teams, the IT Cloud Planning Analyst will also work on having a benchmark for the different types of costs / resource usage and therefore technology teams.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, and comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business. 

What you'll do

  • Be part of a high output team, directly contributing to company results.
  • Master CSPs’ expenses and billing criteria.
  • Produce monthly reports on IT infra usage, explaining main trends, variations and deviations.
  • Own the monthly accruals’ process for IT.
  • Work proactively and closely with the games, data and engineering teams to identify the main technical drivers for each type of cost / vendor (AWS, Databricks, Datadog, Gitlab, etc.).
  • Present and discuss with the engineering teams opportunities to improve the efficient usage of our resources and opportunities to reduce costs.
  • Produce the annual technology budget.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business Administration or equivalent.
  • Solid experience with cost analysis and forecasting (for IT is highly desirable).
  • Master tools like Excel and Google Sheets.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
  • Data Discovery Tooling experience (e.g.: Looker, PowerBI).
  • Knowledge and experience with public cloud providers (preferably AWS).
  • Experience with large unstructured data sets.
  • SQL knowledge.
  • English advanced level.

More about you

  • You are a resourceful person with a go-getter attitude.
  • You are flexible, thriving in radically changing environments.
  • You are detail oriented.
  • You are not afraid to propose and explore new initiatives.
  • You are determined and metrics oriented willing to deliver meaningful results.
  • You have solid communication skills as you will need to interact with many stakeholders within the organization
  • You are passionate about working on and solving problems.
  • You are a team player. You're willing to help out wherever needed.

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Here, we create games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. 

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