Sr. FinOps Data Analyst

Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
Summary
We are looking for a passionate FinOps Data Analyst to transform the speed and quality of our insights for product costs, infrastructure optimization and data quality. Your work will enable Smarsh to discover and act on cost efficiencies, accurately forecast cost and data usage, optimize cloud spend and deliver predictable profitability. You'll work closely with our FinOps and horizontally across our Enterprise Engineering and Product Management organizations with strong internal partnership with Finance. You’ll be working in PowerBI, Excel or notebooks nearly every day to improve our cost infrastructure, identify savings opportunities and provide timely information to the business.
About you
You’re a rare individual who is equally passionate about data, finance, FinOps, information architecture, cost optimization and SaaS. You see the stories the numbers tell and naturally pursue optimization and automation. You enjoy working across a number of teams, on a variety of hard problems, at a fast pace and are judicious at prioritization. You value technical excellence and you love moving the bar forward every day.

How will you contribute?

• Mature and improve our information systems for dynamic SaaS cost reporting across products, geographies, and customers.
• Work with FinOps to define requirements and prioritize changes that will improve our information quality.
• Develop scalable data analysis for cost and usage forecasting, anomaly monitoring, and unit costs, leveraging vendor tools where appropriate.
• Create and distribute monthly and quarterly reports on costs (with FinOps) and product profitability (with Finance) for Executives and the Board of Directors.
• Be entrusted to lead programs responsible for driving real change.

What will you bring?

• 5+ years of work experience in data analysis for public cloud SaaS companies
• BS or BA degree in a related field, such as Computer Science, Business or Economics; Master’s degree is a plus
• Highly proficient in Power BI including DAX, PowerQuery, multiple data sources, MS Excel and visualizations
• Highly proficient in data analysis, including time series, trend forecasting and anomaly detection
• Highly proficient in cloud reporting, analysis and architecture
• Excellent written and verbal skills, communicating to internal and external stakeholders
• Highly organized with a strong ability to prioritize
• AWS or GCP Certifications and FinOps certification all a plus
• Data science understanding and Python proficiency is a plus

What do we offer?

• Healthcare insurance - We provide medical, dental, and vision insurance and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
• Personal time off - A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a “take-what-you-need” time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements
• Pension match - Smarsh provides a 4% Pension match for which employees are fully vested on day one.
• Sabbatical - The Smarsh sabbatical program provides a time to recharge, to study or simply a time to do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service.
• Recognition - We’re big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee-recognition program enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition.

Smarsh is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Smarsh invites all qualified and interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. including the frequency of those functions.
About our culture
Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s lead