Data Analyst (FinOps)

Analyze Microsoft Azure cloud consumption, spending patterns, and resource utilization across Summit platform services, applications, and customer workloads.

Develop and maintain financial dashboards, cost reports, and performance indicators that provide visibility into cloud expenditures, usage trends, and cost drivers.

Monitor cloud budgets, spending thresholds, and consumption trends to identify potential overruns, anomalies, and emerging financial risks.

Develop cost forecasts and budget projections using historical consumption, workload trends, and anticipated platform demand.

Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary cloud spending through resource rightsizing, workload scheduling, storage optimization, and other cost management practices.

Collaborate with cloud engineers, platform administrators, and technical teams to evaluate the financial and operational impact of proposed optimization measures.

Analyze resource tagging, cost allocation, and consumption data to support accurate attribution of cloud expenses to services, environments, and customer workloads.

Support implementation of Government-approved FinOps practices, including cost accountability, financial transparency, and continuous optimization.

Evaluate the cost implications of new platform capabilities, infrastructure changes, and customer onboarding activities.

Investigate unexpected spending increases and usage anomalies, documenting root causes and recommended corrective actions.

Develop and maintain financial analysis models, reporting procedures, and supporting documentation to ensure consistent and repeatable cost assessments.

Prepare cost analysis summaries, financial performance reports, and recommendations for VA stakeholders to support resource planning and management decisions.

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Information Technology, Data Analytics, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Four or more years of professional experience in financial analysis, cloud cost management, business analytics, or a related discipline.

Experience analyzing cloud infrastructure costs, technology expenditures, or enterprise information technology resource consumption.

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power BI or comparable analytical and reporting tools.

Experience developing financial dashboards, cost models, forecasts, and variance analyses.

Proficiency in Structured Query Language (SQL) or comparable data querying and analysis techniques.

Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Cost Management, cloud billing structures, and resource consumption reporting.

Experience analyzing operational metrics, identifying spending trends, and developing actionable cost optimization recommendations.

Ability to translate technical consumption data into clear financial findings for business and technical stakeholders.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.

Ability to meet VA personnel vetting, background investigation, and system access requirements.

The ability to travel for 1-2 domestic business trips per year.

Experience supporting VA or other federal agency cloud <span dat