Associate Principal, IT Cost, Planning, Analytics

Associate Principal – IT Cost, Planning, Analytics

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

Employment Type: Full-time

Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior

Base Pay: $130,000–$145,000 per year

About the role: The Associate Principal will focus on IT cost transparency using tools such as Apptio, Cloudability, Cloud Health, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Quick Sight, as well as detailed IT cost models.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and analyze public cloud forecasts and budgets; monitor and analyze public cloud financial performance and recommend optimization strategies; design, implement, and monitor financial infrastructure metrics.
• Apply the Fin Ops framework to maximize business value of the public cloud, coordinating across business, engineering, and finance teams; partner cross‑functionally to plan and execute cloud optimization opportunities and comply with governance controls.
• Design, configure, validate, and maintain cloud transparency and total cost of ownership reporting.
• Model complex business problems, discover insights, and identify opportunities using data mining and visualization techniques.
• Participate in review processes to ensure overall budget/forecast consolidation and rationalization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business Management, Finance, or a related field; MBA or related graduate coursework a plus.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Prior experience in Fin Ops with a strong background in Technology Business Management or IT Finance.
• Experience with Apptio One, Cloudability, Cloud Health, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Quick Sight, or detailed IT cost models.
• Experience modeling cloud service costs and financially modeling IT expenses such as application TCO, business capability TCO, data centers, network, end‑user compute, storage, virtual environments, application development, and IT operations.
• Fin Ops Certification, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, or other cloud certifications preferred.

Benefits: Medical insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) plan.

Additional information: The role is permanent, full‑time and does not sponsor work visas. Referrals increase chances of being considered.