FinOps Analyst

Business Office - Benson Tower Location: New Orleans, LA Job Number REQ_00274103 Location Type: On-site Sign-on Bonus: N/A

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We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate. We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways.

At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today!

This job analyzes and modifies systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing support systems. Consults with users to identify current operating procedures and to clarify program objectives while relying on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the function of the job. Maintains knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field and relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at the company's discretion.

Education

Required - High school diploma or equivalent.

Preferred - Bachelor's degree.

Work Experience

Required - 8 years of related experience,

5 years with a bachelor's degree in a related field.

Preferred - 5 years of programming experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
Master’s degree in Analytics, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
3 years of experience in cloud cost analysis, financial analysis, data analytics, cloud operations, or technology financial management.
Ability to analyze large billing and utilization datasets, identify anomalies, and quantify actionable recommendations.
Knowledge of budgets, forecasts, allocation, variance analysis, commitments, savings baselines, and realized-savings measurement.
Advanced spreadsheet and data-query skills.
Ability to explain analytical findings and required actions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
2 years of hands-on experience with IBM Cloudability or a comparable cloud cost-management platform and public-cloud billing data.
FinOps Certified Practitioner, preferably at hire or within 12 months.
Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or cloud economics certification.
Power BI or data analytics certification.
Information Technology Infrastructure Library Foundation certification.
Experience with Azure, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, tagging, rightsizing, reservations, and savings plans.

Key Responsibilities

Perform recurring cloud cost and usage analysis using IBM Cloudability and source-platform data.
Reconcile cloud billing, account hierarchies, ownership mappings, and allocation outputs.
Monitor spending, budgets, forecasts, and variances and explain material changes and emerging risks.
Investigate cost anomalies and coordinate corrective or preventive action with responsible teams.
Measure tagging, ownership, and allocation compliance and support remediation of incomplete or inaccurate metadata.
Identify rightsizing, idle-resource, scheduling, storage, licensing, commitment, and resource-retirement opportunities.
Quantify optimization recommendations with documented assumptions, dependencies, financial impact, risk, and priority.
Maintain the savings pipeline and track recommendations through validation, approval, execution, verification, and realized savings.
Support reservation and savings-plan analysis, including coverage, utilization, demand forecasts, terms, and financial risk.
Produce recurring dashboards and reports for executives, Finance, engineering, application owners, service owners, and cost owners.
Develop cost views by application, service, environment, account, business unit, and cost center.
Support budgeting and forecasting with baselines, trends, assumptions, and consumption scenarios.
Document analytical methods, data definitions, reporting logic, controls, and operating procedures.
Support optimization reviews, anomaly triage, stakeholder education, and FinOps maturity activities.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Working knowledge of Job Control Language or its equivalent in the target application environment.
Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally to varying levels of individuals throughout the included job processes.
Analytical skills and ability to use a logical thought process.
Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.
Ability to travel out of town occasionally and work flexible schedule, such as nights, weekends, extended shifts.
Ability to travel throughout and between facilities and work a flexible schedule (e.g. 24/7, weekends, holiday, on call availability).

Job Duties

Performs analysis of assigned applications and business processes/functions.
Modifies and supports assigned applications/systems as appropriate.
Partners and communicates with assigned customers/end users.
Maintains and enhances professional competencies and industry knowledge.
Performs other related duties as required.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

This employer maintains and complies with its Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including the immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns.
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Physical and Environmental Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid.
The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.

Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.

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Ochsner Health does not consider an individual an applicant until they have formally applied to the open position on this careers website.

Please refer to the job description to determine whether the position you are interested in is remote or on-site.Individuals who reside in and will work from the following areas are not eligible for remote work position: Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C.

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Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected class, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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