Fin Ops Analyst (Entry level)

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

At Ellucian, we believe in the transformative power of education, and our cloud solutions are central to powering that transformation for colleges and universities around the world. The FinOps team supports the development and sustainability of Ellucian’s cloud solutions through carefully defined governance and controls that foster organizational accountability through cross-functional collaboration, visibility, and shared responsibility of Ellucian resources and costs. The Ellucian FinOps team measures success by predictable and scalable costs that take advantage of the business drivers of cloud and the variable cost models of cloud deployments.

Where You Will Make an Impact

• Ensure successful outcomes through leadership and support on various FinOps projects and initiatives that support the team's mission to bring visibility, accountability, and governance to Ellucian's cloud spend.
• Provide insight and operational support for Ellucian's FinOps strategy and goals.
• Drive the implementation of various FinOps domains, including but not limited to, cloud usage and cost, performance tracking and benchmarking, decision making, rate optimization, usage optimization, and organizational alignment.
• Utilize cloud financial management and FinOps tools to support operational and project requirements.
• Create dashboards and reports for cloud cost consumption and optimization tracking within areas of responsibility.
• Partner with key stakeholders from across the organization (cloud engineering/operations, finance, product, R&D, sales) to enable and support FinOps practices within their day-to-day operations.
• Identify blockers, challenges, and opportunities related to FinOps goals for realizing value, savings, and efficiency.

What You Will Bring

Ellucian is seeking an Associate FinOps Analyst with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a growth mindset, proactive self-driven initiative, and the ability to work well within a team.

Required:

• 1 - 3 years of experience in FinOps, Cloud Optimization, Engineering/Development Operations, or Financial/Business Analysis.
• Strong MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
• Good working knowledge of public cloud infrastructure platforms/technology: AWS preferred.
• Ability to communicate at all levels within an organization and influence leadership.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, making decisions based upon priorities, schedules, and an understanding of business initiatives.
• Ability to apply critical thinking to all aspects of the position.
• Detail-oriented with excellent documentation skills/methodologies, and able to successfully manage multiple priorities.

Preferred:

• AWS Cloud Certification
• FinOps Foundation Certified Practitioner
• Experience with operational monitoring and tracking of key P/L drivers such as labor, infrastructure, licensing, or third-party costs.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques, including data visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
• Experience with cloud cost management platforms and data analytics tools.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Comprehensive health coverage: family major medical expenses, dental and life insurance.
• Christmas bonus 30 days
• Saving fund
• Monthly food coupon
• 15 workdays vacation
• Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Women in Technology, Pride and Go Green to name a few.
• Parental leave
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Tuition Reimbursement Assistance
• Professional development opportunities

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