Senior Analyst, Product Finance – Operations

Role Overview

• Maintain clear ownership and status tracking of open items across the team, ensuring no requests fall through the cracks and stakeholders are kept informed.
• Identify patterns in recurring requests and proactively work with the team to develop scalable solutions or self-service tools.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders — including Engineering, IT, Finance, and Deal Management — to gather inputs and drive timely outcomes.
• Own the documentation of various FinOps processes, procedures, and playbooks — building a knowledge base that scales the team’s effectiveness.
• Partner with the team to identify undocumented workflows and translate them into clear, replicable standard operating procedures.
• Continuously improve and maintain existing documentation as processes evolve, ensuring accuracy and accessibility across the team.
• Support the development and upkeep of internal tools, trackers, and dashboards that improve operational visibility and efficiency.
• Apply structured project management principles to manage deliverables, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies — keeping work organized, visible, and on track.
• Support the forecasting of internal and embedded software royalty obligations, working with Finance and Engineering stakeholders to ensure accurate projections.
• Manage the purchase requisition and purchase order (PR/PO) process for royalty-related vendors, coordinating with Procurement and Accounts Payable to ensure timely and accurate execution.
• Maintain a centralized royalty tracker covering vendor agreements, payment schedules, accrual status, and any true-up or reconciliation items.
• Assist in the preparation of royalty reporting for internal reviews and governance forums, including variance analysis against forecast.
• Identify process improvements or control gaps in the royalty management workflow and bring forward recommendations to the team.
• Support ongoing monitoring, analysis, and reporting of cloud expenditures across AWS, Azure, and other platforms.
• Assist in identifying cost optimization opportunities and tracking the impact of savings initiatives over time.
• Provide analytical and operational support to the Deal Management team, including deal economics, pricing inputs, and approval workflows.
• Use AI-powered tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) to accelerate research, draft communications, generate documentation, and summarize complex data or threads.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
• 3–5+ years of experience in an operations role or a hybrid finance/operations role
• High-level working knowledge of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience in Excel, Power Query, or BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Exceptional attention to detail, with a track record of producing accurate, well-organized work product in a high-volume, fast-paced environment
• Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented with a continuous improvement orientation
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working cross-functionally across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Tableau

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits
• Vacation
• Paid holidays
• Refresh days
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life and disability insurance coverages
• Other benefits the Company may offer from time to time