Senior Cloud Business Consultant (FinOps)
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Cloud Business Consultant (FinOps), you'll work with enterprise clients to align their cloud adoption with business strategies, focusing on FinOps. You'll advise leading AWS, GCP, and Azure customers on cloud financial management, governance, cost allocation, and more. Responsibilities include delivering high-impact engagements, building client relationships, providing recommendations on FinOps topics (budgets, showback/chargeback, policy/governance), serving as a multi-cloud expert, enabling clients to understand cloud data, supporting contractual negotiations (e.g., AWS Private Pricing Program), and utilizing data analysis tools (Excel, PowerBI, Alteryx, SQL). You'll also contribute to team strategy development and identify new opportunities for customer engagement. The role requires excellent communication and data analysis skills.
Must have:
- Deep FinOps understanding
- Enterprise client engagement
- Multi-cloud expertise (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Data analysis skills (Excel, PowerBI)
- Excellent communication skills
9 skills required
Job Details
As a Senior Cloud Business Consultant (FinOps) you will work directly with a book of enterprise customers to help them align their cloud technology adoption with their business strategies in the FinOps space. You will have the opportunity to advise the world’s largest AWS, GCP, and Azure customers on topics related to FinOps. From cloud financial management, organizational governance, to cloud economics and cost allocation best practices, this role sits at the intersection of cloud, and you will have the opportunity to work with leaders in Engineering, Finance, Procurement, DevOps, and FinOps.
Our primary services are designed to help customers mature through their FinOps journey, and your responsibility will be to advise, track progress, and help customers implement their cloud financial management roadmap, as they move through the Crawl --> Walk --> Run stages of the FinOps roadmap.
In addition to supporting our customers, you will help us develop new strategies for the team, remain current in the market with our services, as well as help us identify other opportunities where we can work more deeply with our customers through our other managed and professional services offerings.
Work location: This role can be worked remotely in Canada in the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta only.
Critical Competencies
- Excellence: Exceeds expectations by consistently demonstrating accountability, discipline, high performance, and a proven track record of exceptional results.
- Customer-driven: Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction through collaborative and proactive problem-solving, and an unwavering commitment to customer success.
- Expertise: Possesses a deep understanding of FinOps and the ability to meet customers where they are in their journey and help them accelerate their success.
- Agility: The ability to adapt and respond to competing customer requests while working in a supportive and team-oriented manner. In addition, the ability to think outside the box and bring new innovative approaches to our practice.
- Compassion: Cultivates a positive and supportive environment to effectively work together towards a common goal, fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders. Ultimately, we are one team and bring a positive, people-first attitude every day.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and deliver fast-paced, high-impact engagements with enterprise companies, resulting in further adoption of FinOps best practices and increased cloud maturity for our customers.
- Build relationships with client-side and internal stakeholders across various business groups to drive successful engagements.
- Deliver recommendations on topics ranging from cloud financial management, budgets, showback and chargeback, organizational management, policy and governance, and other topics related to FinOps.
- The potential to serve as a multi-cloud subject-matter expert, helping clients plan and execute efficient adoption and integration of cloud technologies and platforms across all three hyperscalers, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Enable clients to understand and use their cloud data across technical and non-technical business units.
- The ability to support large contractual negotiations, such as the AWS Private Pricing Program.
- Excellent data analysis skills and strong comfort in data presentation using tools such as Excel, PowerBI, Alteryx, SQL and other data analysis techniques.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to reach a wide range of senior technology leaders both within our organization and with our customers.
Work location: This role can be worked remotely in Canada in the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta only.
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About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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