Sr IT Analyst, FinOps

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

The Impact you can have:

The St. IT Analyst – Cloud FinOps is to help collect and analyze data to provide financial and operational insights critical to the success of the organization. This will include monitoring cloud usage and spending data to identify cost-saving opportunities. With a heavy focus on the cloud, you will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness around cloud consumption. This role will provide financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting, consumption analysis including KPIs, show back, analytics, and capacity.

You’ll Accomplish all of this by:

• Financial Analytics: Maintains appropriate analytical techniques to create information which supports business decision-making. Undertakes formatting and communication of results, using textual, numeric, graphical and other visualization methods appropriate to the target audience.
• Financial accountability: Advises on financial planning and budgeting. Directs financial plans and forecasts. Monitors and manages IT expenditure, ensuring that all IT financial targets are met, and examining any areas where budgets and expenditure exceed their agreed tolerances. Advises on the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making, cloud spending cost models and the allocation and apportionment of all incurred IT costs. Manages actual expenditure, explains variances, and advises on options in use of available budget.
• Cloud Services: Leverage technical expertise to analyze operational systems related to cloud FinOps strategies. Leverage enterprise management tools to assess performance statistics and offer guidance on capacity planning.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Role will function as FinOps subject matter expert in Cloud Center of Excellence and Technology Rationalization programs.
• Developing dashboards and reports to analyze, monitor, report on Ulta Beauty’s consumption of Cloud and related services to proactively identify opportunities for optimization.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, manage anomalies alerts and unplanned spikes.
• Work with various stakeholders to help them understand their GCP and Azure spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes.
• Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights within cloud billing and usage tools, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
• Support in developing a team with skills required to transition Ulta Beauty into an organization which has best-in-class approach to technology vendor/partner management and achieves best-in-class results.
• Development of and adherence to policies and procedures to ensure all work is executed to a high standard.
• Communicate across multiple internal customer partners, from Product Teams to Finance partners and other key business stakeholders.
• Generate public cloud migration cost analysis and forecast for various stakeholders and technologies.

The Essentials for success:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or applicable work experience.
• 7 years financial operation experience with specific focus on IT and cloud financial management
• 3 years working with Cloud providers to ensure adherence to governance
• Proven track record and experience of Cloud provider tools and billing mechanics.
• Experience managing cloud costing or similar cost consumption and capacity planning models within Azure and GCP
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management in both formal and informal situations.
• Able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks, while demonstrating poise in a high-pressure environment.
• Extremely self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
• Minimal travel required (training/conferences)

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.