[Remote] Cloud Financial / Cost Analyst(part time consulting can also be considered )
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zillion Technologies, Inc. is seeking a highly analytical Cloud Financial Analyst to optimize cloud spending and provide data-driven recommendations for multi-cloud environments. The role involves financial analysis, compliance, and strategy development to support government cloud modernization initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Analyze current cloud spending across AWS and Azure environments
- Identify cost inefficiencies, underutilized resources, and optimization opportunities
- Develop forecasting models for future cloud consumption
- Implement and mature FinOps governance practices
- Establish cost allocation, chargeback/showback models, and cloud financial controls
- Compare pricing models, discount structures, and government-specific contracts across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP
- Evaluate Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, enterprise agreements, and committed use discounts
- Assess procurement structures, volume commitments, and multi-year contract implications
- Support vendor negotiations with financially grounded insights
- Perform structured financial comparisons across providers including:
- Compute costs (VM types, autoscaling, burst workloads)
- Storage costs (object, block, archival tiers)
- Networking costs (bandwidth, load balancing, VPN, private connectivity)
- Licensing implications (BYOL vs bundled licensing, database licensing models)
- Egress and interconnect charges (cross-region, cross-cloud, hybrid connectivity)
- Government-specific hosting premiums (e.g., regulated environments)
- Perform high-level Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison scenarios including:
- Migration costs
- Refactoring vs lift-and-shift implications
- Operational overhead
- Long-term cost scalability
- Exit costs and vendor lock-in considerations
- Ensure alignment with federal/state compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, CJIS, data sovereignty requirements)
- Assess financial and contractual risks across vendors
- Support audit readiness and regulatory reporting
- Evaluate risk-adjusted cost modeling for mission-critical workloads
- Conduct comparative financial and technical assessments of OCI and GCP against AWS and Azure
- Develop executive-ready business cases for cloud diversification or consolidation
- Align financial recommendations with resilience, sovereignty, and security objectives
- Provide scenario-based recommendations (single cloud vs multi-cloud vs hybrid)
- Build executive dashboards for cloud financial performance
- Present recommendations to CIOs, CFOs, procurement leaders, and government executives
- Partner with architecture, engineering, and procurement teams to align financial and technical strategies
- Support RFP development and cost modeling for vendor selection Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, or related field (MBA preferred)
- 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, cloud cost management, IT finance, or public sector advisory
- Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure cost management tools
- Experience evaluating OCI and/or GCP pricing models
- Advanced financial modeling and Excel expertise
- Experience supporting government or public sector organizations
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / Solutions Architect
- Azure Fundamentals / Azure Solutions Architect
- FinOps Certified Practitioner
- Government compliance familiarity (FedRAMP, FISMA) Company Overview
- Zillion Technologies, Inc. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship
- Zillion Technologies, Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 37 in 2025, 34 in 2024, 45 in 2023, 37 in 2022, 30 in 2021, 52 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job
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