Freudenberg Group
Freudenberg Group
Freudenberg Group is a global organization with career opportunities spanning consulting, healthcare, and logistics. Its recruitment platform brings together open roles in a searchable, filterable job listing and provides detailed vacancy pages where candidates can review position information and begin the application process. The platform also incorporates selected third-party content, including videos and map services, while using necessary cookies to support security, privacy, and consistent session management throughout the hiring journey.

Junior FinOps Analyst, Cloud and AI (Remote, Romania)

Support Freudenberg Business Services by bringing cloud and AI spending data together for analysis and reporting. Build cost allocation models, dashboards, forecasts, and optimization efforts.

Description

  • Compile and validate cloud and AI costs, usage, contracts, licenses, and operational data to support reporting, forecasting, allocation, and decisions.
  • Set measurement dimensions, tagging and metadata standards, and allocation models across business units, products, applications, projects, environments, and owners.
  • Examine cost drivers and unit economics for cloud services and AI workloads.
  • Assess actual spending against budgets, forecasts, business cases, total cost of ownership, commitments, and targets.
  • Review costs, usage, and forecasts with technology and business stakeholders.
  • Track budgets, thresholds, quotas, and commitments, and flag deviations.
  • Spot anomalies, underused or oversized resources, inefficient service or model choices, and unused contractual benefits.
  • Coordinate cost optimization work and monitor projected and realized savings.
  • Share cost, usage, and value insights to inform decisions about expanding, continuing, or ending AI initiatives.
  • Establish and maintain policies, standards, and controls for tagging, budgets, approved services and AI models, regions, quotas, commitments, and approvals.
  • Prepare dashboards, regular reports, and decision materials for IT, Finance, Controlling, Procurement, and Management.
  • Automate data gathering, reporting, alerts, allocation, and savings tracking.
  • Coordinate FinOps work across forecasting, budgeting, month-end activities, anomaly reviews, and optimization planning.

Requirements

  • Degree in Business Informatics, Computer Science, Business Administration, Finance or Controlling, or a related field; relevant vocational training with practical experience is also considered.
  • 1–4 years of relevant experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, IT controlling, data analytics, cloud operations, or a related setting.
  • Sound understanding of consumption-based cost models for cloud and AI.
  • Practical exposure to cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, showback or chargeback, unit economics, total cost of ownership, reporting, or anomaly analysis.
  • Some hands-on experience with cloud cost management, business intelligence or reporting, or data analytics tools.
  • Power BI, SQL, API, or scripting experience is an advantage.
  • Knowledge of AI cost drivers and consumption measures such as tokens, model calls, GPU usage, agents, and transactions.
  • Interest in building further FinOps expertise.
  • Familiarity with FinOps principles or a related certification is a plus.
  • Strong analytical and structured approach, confidence with numbers, and attention to detail.
  • Ability to turn cost and usage data into clear insights, recommendations, and practical next steps.
  • Collaborative, proactive approach with ownership, reliability, and a pragmatic, solution-focused mindset.
  • Effective communication with technical and commercial stakeholders in an international setting.
  • Very good command of English.
  • German language skills are an advantage.

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
  • Employment opportunities are offered without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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