PG&E Corporation Hiring for Cloud Finance Operations Product Owner, Expert at Oakland, California Full Time

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various groups which collaborate optimally in order to deliver high quality technology solutions.

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking an Expert Financial Operations Product Owner to own the Cloud organization’s FinOps function, at a pivotal point where we are growing our public cloud footprint through a multi-year migration program.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting.

This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is :

Bay Area Minimum : $129,000.00

Bay Area Maximum : $207,000.00

California Minimum : $123,000.00

California Maximum : $197,000.00

Job Responsibilities

• Drive Cloud FinOps product road map, adept at understanding current gaps and driving planning to mature practices, methodology, tooling and culture
• Lead all aspects of the Cloud budget while working closely with Application Teams and Cloud sponsors to meet savings targets
• Perform analysis from cloud native and vendor purchased tooling to comfortably present findings to IT, Finance, Sourcing and Business senior leaders
• Analyze spend trends, opportunities for savings, and address specific recommendations for improvement.
• Understand how to demonstrate metrics and reporting to show relevant context and tell a significant story
• Actively participate in product and architectural discussions to help product / project teams make the most cost-efficient choices in the financial aspects of estimation, planning, and operations
• Regularly train and advise cloud engineers, app developers and practitioners
• Maintain Cloud FinOps knowledge database (Wiki) making content easy to consume, concise and practical.
• Lead automation of key FinOps processes such as existing Show Back / Charge Back process with internal systems (SAP)
• Improve company’s use of existing FinOps tools and drive selection and implementation of outstanding tooling to close gaps
• Though matrixed relationship, direct work of financial analyst(s) who serve FinOps Product Owner function to lead AWS marketplace purchases, Charge Back process and reporting.
• Advocate for FinOps annual budget and team organization expansion

Qualifications

Minimum :

• High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• Job-related experience, 5 years

Desired :

• Bachelors Degree
• Masters Degree
• Strong Financial analysis with the ability to develop and present financial analysis of a client’s spend and make related recommendations.
• Deep passion for cloud technology and ability to articulate the cloud value proposition in both technical and financial aspects
• Skilled at building relationships at all levels internally, with vendors and within FinOps community
• Persistent, tenacious and ability to navigate ambitious business situations constantly finding opportunities to drive value
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills in both technical and non-technical contexts
• Proficient working understanding of AWS and Azure cloud computing platform, products, and pricing.
• Support public cloud monthly cloud billing, processing and digitalized reporting with accounting and finance
• Support collaborators in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
• Collaborate in public cloud monthly demand planning & forecasting, application migration breakthroughs dedication, budget variance and anomalies reporting to understand cloud spend dedication
• Certifications : AWS Cloud Practitioner, FinOps Practitioner (or demonstrable experience)
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams, familiarity with Atlassian Jira Cloud
• SME in public cloud planning, cost management and optimization on AWS and Azure
• Knowledge of the core Finance principles and the corporate accounting and finance process
• Ability to navigate, cleanse and integrate raw data to develop multifaceted dashboards using data analytics tools
• Advanced in AWS Cost Explorer, Microsoft Excel. Preferred experience with Microsoft Power BI, Apptio Cloud-ability.
• Ability to contextualize abstract or complicated or new concept across all levels of collaborators
• Ability to think strategically, complete independently, prioritizing multiple tasks or agenda under pressure
• Strong organizational skills, good judgment, fact based and decision making ability
• Ability to influence others across multiple functions to inspire change
• Must have a collaborative and participative management style
• Position is hybrid / remote, with California residency requirement, with ability to travel to Bay Area headquarters
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