IT Financial Analyst

Overview

Zyter Inc., a fast-paced leader in the Healthcare technology product space, is seeking a seasoned Sr. Fin Ops Analyst to play a mission-critical role in advancing our cloud financial operations, AWS platform governance, and end-to-end visibility into infrastructure economics. This individual will lead efforts to optimize cloud spend, operationalize tagging and allocation policies, support client pricing models, and deliver forecast accuracy in alignment with business and platform growth objectives.

You’ll be the subject matter expert on AWS cloud financial management, leveraging tools like Cloud Watch, Cloud Health, and AWS CUR, while supporting organizational maturity across the Fin Ops lifecycle:
Inform → Optimize → Operate. This role is highly cross-functional, interacting regularly with Engineering, Finance, Product, and Executive teams to ensure accountability, scalability, and profitability of our cloud-hosted solutions.

Cloud Financial Management & Optimization

• Analyze AWS usage to identify cost-saving opportunities such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, rightsizing, and idle resource cleanup.
• Leverage Cloud Watch, Cloud Health, etc., to detect anomalies, drive optimization, and surface actionable insights.
• Support planning and utilization tracking for AWS Enterprise Discount Programs (EDP), Reserved Instances (RI), and Savings Plans (SP).

Tagging & Cost Allocation Governance

• Own the organization-wide cloud tagging strategy, including development, enforcement, and remediation.
• Improve tagging compliance and cost attribution across business units, environments, and client footprints.
• Maintain and evolve cost allocation models using linked accounts, cost categories, and resource metadata.
• Automate tagging audits, compliance dashboards, and reporting of unallocated costs.

Forecasting, Budgeting & Variance Management

• Lead the cloud forecasting and budgeting process in partnership with FP&A, Infrastructure, and Product teams.
• Build driver-based forecasting models using usage patterns, client onboarding assumptions, and business growth scenarios.
• Monitor and explain budget variances; provide root-cause attribution using data from Cloud Health and CUR.
• Deliver executive forecast packages monthly, with variance-to-budget reporting and forward-looking trend analysis.

Proposal & Pricing Support

• Partner with Product, Sales, and Finance to develop client hosting proposals, internal rate cards, and quoting assumptions.
• Provide inputs on infrastructure cost, margin analysis, and usage projections tied to deals, renewals, or roadmap expansions.
• Validate post-sale assumptions against actual usage, recommending adjustments where needed to improve pricing accuracy.

Fin Ops Tooling & Enablement

• Manage the usage of Cloud Health and Cloud Watch for real-time monitoring, cost modeling, and executive dashboards.
• Evaluate and integrate other Fin Ops tools (e.g., Cloud Checkr, Apptio Cloudability, AWS CUDOS) as needed.
• Deliver automated, self-service reports and dashboards for Finance, Engineering, and Executives.

Business Alignment, Fin Ops Maturity & Governance Integration

• Define and track cloud unit economics (e.g., cost per client, per user, per transaction).
• Align cloud financial practices with platform growth, product economics, and customer profitability targets.
• Drive Fin Ops maturity across the Inform → Optimize → Operate lifecycle.
• Integrate Fin Ops into broader IT governance models, including architecture, security, and delivery workflows.
• Foster a cost-aware culture through training, documentation, and cross-functional engagement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as a bridge between Engineering, Dev Ops, Finance, Product, and Procurement to embed Fin Ops into planning and execution.
• Support cloud pricing and intake processes for internal and client-facing platform deployments.
• Work with security, compliance, and internal audit to align financial operations with regulatory and policy frameworks.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 6–8+ years of experience in cloud financial operations, Fin Ops,…