Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst

Horizon3.ai, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

US, Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Build comprehensive cloud spend visibility dashboards segmented by product, product feature, tenant, and engineering team to enable financial transparency and decision-making.
• Partner with Engineering Infrastructure and Product teams to define, implement, and enforce a standardized tagging taxonomy for cloud resources, identifying and closing tagging gaps to improve cost attribution accuracy.
• Make cloud and AI billing data accessible through analytics platforms and automate exports to Excel, Google Sheets, and enterprise finance systems for seamless integration with accounting workflows.
• Develop and maintain cloud spend forecast models that align with sales forecasts and product roadmap initiatives to support budgeting and financial planning.
• Define and implement spend alarms based on budget thresholds and forecasted usage, leading investigations into cost anomalies and root cause analysis of unexpected expenditure.
• Build unit economics tracking capabilities for the product portfolio, including metrics such as cost per customer, cost per operation, cost per API request, and AI token usage rates.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams to classify infrastructure resources and correlate utilization data with cost drivers to improve efficiency and cost allocation.
• Translate complex infrastructure cost data into actionable business insights for both Engineering and Finance leadership, bridging technical and financial perspectives.
• Independently investigate cost anomalies, document findings, and deliver clear, data-backed recommendations to optimize cloud spending and improve margin visibility.
• Utilize BI tools such as AWS QuickSight, Tableau, Looker, or GCP Data Studio to create and maintain interactive financial dashboards for real-time spend monitoring.
• Design and maintain forecasting models in Excel and Google Sheets to project future cloud expenditures based on usage trends and business growth.
• Drive adoption of FinOps practices across engineering teams by embedding cost awareness into development processes and promoting accountability for cloud resource usage.
• Stay current with AWS, GCP, and Azure savings mechanisms including Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances, and recommend optimization strategies.
• Communicate financial findings and cost optimization opportunities to cross-functional stakeholders with clarity and precision, ensuring alignment between technical execution and business outcomes.
• Support the company’s mission of proactive cybersecurity by ensuring cloud financial efficiency enables scalable, secure, and cost-effective delivery of the NodeZero platform.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience as a FinOps cloud spend analyst on a major cloud provider, preferably AWS
• Strong exploratory data analysis skills in SQL and experience analyzing large, complex cloud billing datasets
• Proven experience building cost reporting dashboards and financial models using BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, QuickSight) and spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets)
• Experience in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS company with a multi-tenant architecture and shared infrastructure cost attribution challenges
• Demonstrated ability to independently investigate cost anomalies, identify drivers, and make clear, actionable recommendations
• Experience working with Engineering teams to improve resource tagging and embed cost visibility into development workflows

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary range of $240,570 - $297,000 annually
• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employee and family
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave
• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative team culture
• Growth opportunities within a fast-growing cybersecurity company
• Occasional business travel up to 5% required

Skills & Technologies

AWS

Azure

GCP

Senior

Remote

$240k-297k

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About Horizon3.ai, Inc.

Horizon3.ai provides autonomous security testing and attack surface management software. Its NodeZero platform continuously assesses enterprise networks, clouds, and applications to find exploitable weaknesses, validate fixes, and prioritize risks. The company serves Fortune 500, government, and mid-market organizations seeking proactive defense without manual red teams.

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