Bridget V. Ollis
Cloud Financial Operations Analyst, Business software
Denver, CO · (303) 555 0119 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/bridgetvollis
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Six years in cloud cost management and technology finance
INDUSTRIES
Business software, developer tools, data platforms
SPECIALTIES
Commitment planning, rightsizing, cost allocation and tagging, unit economics
SYSTEMS
Amazon Web Services Cost Explorer, Apptio Cloudability, Oracle NetSuite, Snowflake, Tableau
CREDENTIALS
Certified Practitioner, FinOps Foundation; Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner
EDUCATION
Bachelor of science in finance, University of Colorado Boulder
Executive Summary
Cloud financial operations analyst for a software company running entirely on Amazon Web Services, with an annual cloud bill of nineteen million dollars. Six years sitting between finance and engineering, translating a usage report into a budget conversation that a platform team is willing to have.
Signature Achievements
- Cut annual cloud spend by three point one million dollars in one year while compute usage grew twenty eight percent.
- Raised commitment coverage on steady state compute from thirty four percent to eighty one percent using savings plans and reserved capacity.
- Built the tagging standard that took allocated spend from forty percent of the bill to ninety six percent.
- Introduced a cost per customer measure that the product team now reviews before pricing any new plan tier.
- Identified nine hundred thousand dollars of annual waste in idle storage volumes and unattached addresses.
- Set up anomaly alerting that caught a runaway data pipeline within four hours rather than at the next invoice.
Professional Experience
Cloud Financial Operations Analyst
Silverpeak Software Company, Denver, CO 2022 to present
Cloud cost management across eleven engineering teams and forty accounts on Amazon Web Services.
- Forecast monthly and annual cloud spend and reconcile the forecast against the invoice and the general ledger.
- Run the quarterly commitment planning cycle with platform engineering and the treasury team.
- Publish showback reporting by team, service and product line, and hold a monthly review with each engineering lead.
- Investigate cost anomalies and work with the responsible team to confirm whether the change was intended.
- Support the accounting close with accruals and the allocation of cloud cost into cost of revenue.
Financial Analyst, Technology
Front Range Digital Group, Boulder, CO 2020 to 2022
Budget and vendor analysis for a technology organization of two hundred people.
- Owned the technology budget across software licensing, hosting and professional services.
- Built the first hosting cost report that separated production from development environments.
- Renegotiated four software agreements at a combined annual saving of three hundred thousand dollars.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Practitioner, FinOps Foundation
Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner
Education
Bachelor of science in finance, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019
Core Skills
Cloud cost forecasting · Commitment planning · Rightsizing analysis · Tagging governance · Showback reporting · Anomaly detection · Unit economics · Engineering partnership · Vendor negotiation · Accrual accounting