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Senior FinOps Analyst – Budgeting, Reporting, Costing & FinOps Platform SME

Job Summary

The Senior FinOps Analyst – Budgeting, Reporting, Costing & FinOps Platform SME is responsible for enabling financial transparency, predictability, and accountability of cloud spend across the enterprise.

This role combines strong financial analysis with technical subject‑matter expertise to support budgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, reporting, dashboards, and functional ownership of FinOps platforms. The role serves as a key interface between Finance, Engineering, and Platform teams to ensure FinOps tools, data, and insights are accurate, scalable, and audit‑ready.

Key Responsibilities

Budgeting, Forecasting & Cost Management

• Lead cloud budgeting and forecasting activities, including adjusted forecasts, variance analysis, and budget lifecycle management
• Perform forecast vs. actuals analysis and identify cost drivers, risks, and remediation actions
• Support enterprise‑level and BU‑level budget tracking and consolidation
• Provide costing analysis to support financial planning and decision‑making

Cloud Cost Estimation & Technical SME Support

• Act as a technical FinOps SME providing cloud consumption and cost estimates for new initiatives, migrations, architectural reviews, and capacity planning
• Translate technical designs (e.g., VM sizing, storage tiers, database SKUs, scaling assumptions, licensing models) into financial cost models
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to validate assumptions, usage patterns, and pricing inputs
• Support shift‑left cost estimation, ensuring financial impact is assessed early in the design and planning lifecycle
• Review estimated vs. actual spend post‑deployment and continuously improve estimation accuracy

Reporting, Dashboards & Insights

• Design, build, and maintain standardized FinOps reports and dashboards for budgeting, forecasting, optimization, and executive reporting
• Ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and alignment with Finance and governance requirements
• Translate complex financial and technical data into clear, actionable insights for leadership and stakeholders
• Support recurring executive, finance, and governance reporting (monthly, quarterly, ad‑hoc)

FinOps Platform Ownership & Enablement

• Serve as the functional owner and administrator for FinOps platforms and cost management tools
• Maintain tool configurations, dashboards, KPIs, allocation logic, and user access controls
• Partner with Engineers on integrations, enhancements, and automation while owning functional correctness and business outcomes
• Ensure FinOps platforms support auditability, traceability, and governance standards
• Identify gaps, enhancement opportunities, and roadmap needs for FinOps tools and reporting capabilities

Stakeholder Partnership & Governance

• Partner with Finance, Platform, Engineering, and BU stakeholders to drive cost transparency and adoption
• Support governance forums, KPI tracking, leadership reviews, and funding discussions
• Provide clear, data‑driven insights to support decision‑making and accountability

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Master’s or Doctorate qualifications.

Critical skills

• 6–9+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, financial analysis, or related roles
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and cost analysis
• Technical understanding of cloud services and pricing models (compute, storage, databases, platform services)
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards and financial reports
• Ability to translate technical architectures into financial insights

Additional Qualifications

• Experience owning or administering FinOps or cloud cost management platforms
• Experience supporting cost estimation and design‑phase financial analysis
• Familiarity with FinOps operating models and governance practices
• FinOps Practitioner or equivalent certification.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

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