Sr. FinOps Analyst

The Senior FinOps Analyst (Azure) is a hands‑on practitioner role responsible for providing clear visibility, forecasting, and optimization of cloud spend across Azure environments. The role ensures cloud costs are transparent, explainable, and actively managed without sacrificing reliability or delivery speed.

 

Operating within the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and Software Excellence & Enablement (SEE), this role partners closely with Engineering, Operations, Product, and Finance to embed cost awareness into everyday technical and business decisions. Success is measured by data quality, forecast accuracy, cost optimization, and sustained behavioral change, not reporting activity alone.

 

This position emphasizes execution and follow‑through: identifying opportunities, driving remediation, and verifying real savings.

 

Job Functions:

• Establish and maintain clear cloud cost visibility across products, environments, and workloads.
• Build and maintain cost dashboards and reports with accurate allocation and attribution.
• Implement and enforce cloud resource tagging standards; track compliance and drive exception closure.
• Develop rolling cloud cost forecasts and explain variances against actual spend.
• Identify, prioritize, and track cloud cost optimization opportunities across compute, storage, database, networking, and logging services.
• Maintain a prioritized Savings Backlog with owners, estimated impact, and verification of realized savings.
• Configure anomaly detection for unexpected cost spikes to lead to rapid investigation and correction.
• Integrate cloud cost checks into release and readiness processes in partnership with SEE.
• Partner with Finance and IT on chargeback/show back models, budgeting, and subscription structure.
• Own evaluation and integration of FinOps tooling with Azure billing data and internal dashboards.
• Provide concise, fact‑based monthly and quarterly cost summaries to leadership.
• Educate engineering and product teams on cost drivers and practical optimization actions.

 

Travel Requirements:

• 5% overnight travel (Travel expenses paid by Toyota Automated Logistics)

 

Required Qualifications and Preferred Skills:

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered
• 4+ years experience in Cloud FinOps, Cloud Analytics, or Cloud Operations with demonstrated cost savings
• Strong hands‑on experience analyzing and managing Azure cloud costs.
• Working knowledge of Azure billing models (EA or MCA), subscriptions, management groups, and Cost Management.
• Experience implementing and enforcing resource tagging standards.
• Ability to build clear dashboards and concise executive‑level summaries.
• Experience driving cost optimization initiatives with engineers and operations teams.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure‑as‑Code environments and standardized platforms.
• Experience with FinOps or cloud cost management tools.
• Clear, concise communicator with a bias toward facts and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to influence behavior across teams without formal authority.
• Must be eligible to work in the USA long term without sponsorship.
• Employees must follow all information security policies, protect confidential data, complete required training, and report any suspected security incidents to support our information security controls.

About Toyota Automated Logistics:

Toyota Automated Logistics is your global partner for integrated warehouse automation. Our team combines the talents of Bastian Solutions, Vanderlande’s warehousing business and viastore under one brand to deliver scalable systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services.

 

In addition to exciting work at a growing company, we offer the following benefits