Our story
At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to "Be Alight."
Our Values:
Champion People - be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.
Grow with purpose - Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.
Be Alight - act with integrity, be real and empower others.
It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.
Learn more at careers.alight.com.
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Collect and analyze data to provide financial and operational insights critical to the success of the organization. This will include monitoring cloud usage and spending data to identify cost-saving opportunities. With a heavy focus on the cloud, you will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness around cloud consumption. This role will provide financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting, consumption analysis including KPIs, show back, analytics, and capacity.
You'll accomplish this through the use of:
Financial Analytics: Utilize analytical techniques to present information which supports business decisions. Undertakes formatting and communication of results, using textual, numeric, graphical and other visualization methods appropriate to the target audience.
Financial accountability: Advises on financial planning and budgeting. Directs financial plans and forecasts. Monitors and manages IT expenditure, ensuring that all IT financial targets are met, and examining any areas where budgets and expenditure exceed their agreed tolerances. Advises on the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making, cloud spending cost models and the allocation and apportionment of all incurred IT costs. Manages actual expenditure, explains variances, and advises on options in use of available budget.
Cloud Services: Leverage technical expertise to analyze operational systems related to cloud FinOps strategies. Leverage enterprise management tools to assess performance statistics and offer guidance on capacity planning.
Key Functions and Responsibilities:
Development and Enhancement of Governance Framework:Evolve the cloud financial management framework and governance processes, along with associated toolsets.
Cloud Cost Optimization: Keep up with the latest cost optimization strategies and technologies.
Formulate insights and new strategies for cloud optimization, presenting viable solutions to the leadership team.
Drive FinOps value by aiding customers in understanding their cloud spending aligned with business goals and budget.
Financial Reporting and Tracking:
Generate and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports, aligning cloud costs with financial budgets and forecasting.
Monitor and track customers at risk, initiating the necessary escalation processes.
Resource Reporting and Optimization
Provide comprehensive reporting on Azure and AWS resources, furnishing actionable intelligence for optimization efforts.
Contribute to aligning cloud costs with overall financial budgets, forecasting, and actuals.
Collaboration and Partnership:
Work on effective design, analysis, and remediation of control measures in partnership with the global governance team.
Offer guidance, assess control standards, and procedures.
Identify emerging risks, threats, and deficiencies in key controls, raise awareness and propose solutions.
Additional Responsibilities:
Develop dashboards using cloud native tooling and reports to analyze, monitor, and report on Alight's consumption of Cloud and related services to proactively identify opportunities for optimization.
Monitor cloud consumption to detect, investigate, manage anomalies alerts and unplanned spikes.
Work with various stakeholders to help them understand their cloud spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes.
Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights within cloud platforms and tools, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
Support in developing a team with skills required to transition Alight into an organization which has best-in-class approach to technology vendor/partner management.
Development of and adherence to policies and procedures to ensure all work is executed to a high standard.
Communicate across multiple internal customer partners, from Product Teams to Finance partners and other key business stakeholders.
Other duties assigned or required to meet the business needs.
Essentials for success:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or applicable work experience.
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