AI FinOps, Cost & Contracts Analyst

AI FinOps, Cost & Contracts Analyst

Location: Plano, TX

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Cloud AI FinOps, Cost & Contracts Analyst to support a newly established AI Business Strategy & Value Realization team. This position is ideal for a candidate with a strong background in financial operations, cloud cost management, vendor and contract administration, budgeting, forecasting, and technology investment analysis. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing financial governance for enterprise AI initiatives, optimizing AI-related spending, managing vendor contracts, and delivering financial insights that maximize business value while ensuring fiscal accountability and operational excellence

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Essential Function

s:• Develop and manage AI FinOps processes, including total cost of ownership (TCO), cost-to-value analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning for AI service

s.• Design and administer showback, chargeback, and cost recovery models based on AI usage, token consumption, compute utilization, and business valu

e.• Analyze AI platform costs across cloud infrastructure, foundation models, licensing, APIs, and enterprise AI platforms to identify optimization opportunitie

s.• Partner with procurement, finance, legal, and technology teams to evaluate vendor contracts, pricing structures, renewals, and licensing strategies for AI solution

s.• Build financial dashboards and executive reporting that provide transparency into AI spend, utilization, adoption, unit economics, and RO

I.• Develop financial models that connect AI consumption, operational costs, and business outcomes to support investment decisions and value realizatio

n.• Establish governance, financial controls, and reporting processes to ensure efficient and responsible AI spendin

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Minimum qualificati

on:• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related fie

ld.• 5+ years of experience in Financial Operations (FinOps), financial planning and analysis (FP&A), technology finance, procurement, or cloud cost manageme

nt.• Strong understanding of AI economics, including token-based pricing, inference costs, cloud consumption, API pricing, model licensing, and AI usage metri

cs.• Experience designing and implementing showback, chargeback, billback, cost allocation, and cost recovery mode

ls.• Knowledge of total cost of ownership (TCO), unit economics, cost optimization, ROI analysis, and business case development for technology investmen

ts.• Experience analyzing enterprise software contracts, licensing agreements, vendor negotiations, and financial governan

ce.• Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel and experience using BI tools such as Power BI or Microsoft Fabric for financial reporting and executive dashboar

ds.• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present financial insights and recommendations to executive leadersh