Description
Join us as a GCP FinOps Practitioner to drive meticulous financial governance, budget allocation, and clear cost reporting across our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, based in one of our key innovation hubs!
As a GCP FinOps Practitioner at Salesforce, you will be the core expert managing the financial lifecycle of our GCP consumption. This role focuses heavily on business partnership, budget accuracy, and allocation tracking, serving as the critical bridge between central Finance, Business Unit leaders, and the technical teams. You will ensure every dollar spent on GCP is correctly accounted for, accurately allocated, and clearly reported to drive informed business decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Budget Planning & Management:
- Manage the GCP budget allocation process across multiple business units, ensuring alignment with annual operating plans and strategic initiatives.
- Track, monitor, and report on budget consumption against allocated spend limits, flagging variances and potential overruns to stakeholders proactively.
- Cost Allocation Design & Governance:
- Design and govern the models for showback and chargeback, defining the methodologies and policies to accurately attribute costs to the correct teams, products, or cost centers using effective resource labeling/tagging strategies.
- Partner with Finance to reconcile GCP invoices against internal budget splits, ensuring financial integrity and resolving discrepancies.
- Financial Reporting & Analysis:
- Generate and distribute regular, high-level financial reports focusing on cost allocation, budget status, and consumption trends for executive review.
- Translate complex GCP billing data into clear, actionable business insights regarding spend distribution and utilization efficiency.
- Policy & Process Development:
- Define and document the internal processes for budget change requests, forecasting adjustments, and new resource deployment approvals from a cost perspective.
- Champion the cultural shift toward financial accountability by communicating allocation policies and reporting methodologies across the organization.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in a FinOps, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), or Cost Management role, specifically within a technology or cloud environment.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing concepts (e.g., Projects, Billing Accounts, Committed Use Discounts, Billing Exports).
- Expertise in managing and reconciling large, complex technology budgets, focusing on allocation, chargeback design, and accurate forecasting.
- Strong proficiency in advanced Microsoft Excel and experience with enterprise financial systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday).
- Exceptional communication and partnership skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with both Finance stakeholders and technical product owners.
- A related technical degree required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.
- Familiarity with the structure and usage of GCP services (e.g., Compute Engine, BigQuery) sufficient to understand consumption drivers.
- Experience utilizing financial planning and analysis (FP&A) tools for technology cost management.
For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.