Senior Lead Financial Operations Analyst, Coupa
East Coast
Business spending management platform
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Business spending management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide a clear idea of business value for clients.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis and cloud cost management, with demonstrated experience building and scaling a FinOps practice
- Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional cost optimization programs with measurable, multi-million dollar impact in a major cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Expert-level proficiency with cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, CloudZero, or similar)
- Ability to build sophisticated financial models and analyze massive datasets to deliver strategic insights using tools like Excel/Google Sheets and data visualization platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
- Deep expertise in container cost reporting, allocation, and optimization strategies
- Deep expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and developing unit economic models
- Proficiency in prompt engineering and using Generative AI tools to streamline data analysis and automate FinOps workflows
- Demonstrated ability to develop and present business cases for technology and financial investments
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to influence senior leadership and drive consensus across diverse, technical, and non-technical audiences
- A strategic and autonomous mindset, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, define the path forward, and lead programs from conception to completion
- Proven ability to mentor and guide others, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
What the job involves
- FinOps is the strategic engine that powers our financial and technology alignment, ensuring every dollar invested in our cloud and infrastructure resources delivers maximum value
- As a Sr Lead FinOps Analyst, you will be a strategic driving force of our FinOps practice, architecting the frameworks and fostering the culture necessary for world-class cloud financial management
- You will build and mature a program that directly influences our most critical business objectives, including achieving EBITDA targets, optimizing gross margins, and establishing Coupa as a leader in cloud governance and efficiency
- Make the FinOps strategy and roadmap a reality, aligning it with company-wide financial goals and technology initiatives
- Establish and govern the key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics used to measure the health and success of our cloud financial operations
- Understand and be able to articulate Coupa’s FinOps landscape, with insight into cost and usage patterns and behavior for all cloud providers, in the context of forecasts and project plans
- Lead the cloud budgeting and forecasting process, partnering with Finance and Engineering leadership to set ambitious yet achievable targets
- Integrate AI and Machine Learning (ML) into forecasting models to improve accuracy, identify spend anomalies in real-time, and automate predictive cost modeling
- Champion and orchestrate large-scale cost optimization initiatives, such as commitment-based discount strategies (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans), rightsizing programs, and architectural efficiency reviews, and utilize AI-powered optimization tools to identify savings opportunities
- Design, implement, and govern sophisticated cloud cost allocation and chargeback/showback models to ensure full cost transparency and accountability
- Serve as the primary subject matter expert on cloud economics, providing guidance on pricing, new service adoption, and cost implications of architectural decisions
- Deliver the roadmap for FinOps tooling and dashboards, ensuring they provide actionable, real-time insights for audiences ranging from individual engineers to the C-suite
- Serve as a FinOps advisor to senior leadership, translating complex cost data into strategic narratives, business cases, and actionable recommendations
- Act as a FinOps authority and lead collaborator for engineering, finance, accounting, procurement, and cloud operations teams, driving alignment and execution on cost-saving strategies
- Mentor and develop talent within the organization, formally and informally, to build FinOps expertise across engineering and finance teams
- Drive the integration of FinOps principles into the core of the engineering and procurement lifecycles, from design and development to vendor negotiation
Our take
In 2006, Noah Eisner co-founded Coupa with Ravi Thakur, two fintech start-up specialists, as a provider of business spending management (BSM) services. Coupa has grown into its niche with a comprehensive platform that enables companies to gain greater control over their spending, supply networks, chain optimisation, liquidity management and payment solutions.
Coupa has been recognised as a leading brand in third-party risk management (TPRM). Using artificial intelligence software, its TPRM software takes data from hundreds of sources and generates risk flags across the entire platform, informing the user’s processing decisions.
TPRM integrates into Coupa’s business spending management systems to provide one comprehensive platform, a feat that gives it a definitive edge when it comes to secure management of company funds. Acquired in early 2023 by Thoma Bravo, Coupa is a company to watch, as progress in AI software could open opportunities for greater software automation on its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Mar 2014
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $169m
Company benefits
- Employee stock purchase program
- Health benefits for employees and their families
- Retirement and savings plans
- Flexible work environment
Company HQ
Town Center, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Leagh Turner
(CEO & Board Of Directors)Previously on the Board of Directors at Plan International Canada, was the Co-CEO of Ceridian and was COO at SAP.
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