Why UKG:
At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.
We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.
About the Role
As a Staff Cloud FinOps Practitioner, you will play a key role in driving financial accountability, cloud cost optimization, and cost transparency across UKG's public cloud environments. You will partner with engineering, product, architecture, and finance teams to help establish a culture of cost-conscious decision-making while enabling business growth and innovation.
This role combines cloud financial management, cost analysis, forecasting support, optimization execution, and stakeholder engagement to ensure cloud investments are aligned with business objectives. You will act as the FinOps representative for assigned business pillars, helping teams understand cloud consumption, forecast demand, identify savings opportunities, and improve unit economics.
Key Responsibilities
FinOps Governance & Business Partnership
Serve as the FinOps practitioner supporting assigned business units, value streams, or product pillars.
Participate in FinOps governance and operational review cadences, including forecasting, budgeting, optimization tracking, and reporting.
Partner with engineering and product teams to establish accountability for cloud consumption and spending.
Support monthly and quarterly business reviews related to cloud costs, usage trends, and optimization progress.
Promote FinOps best practices and cost awareness across engineering and product organizations.
Forecasting, Planning & Financial Management
Support rolling cloud forecasts and budget planning activities.
Monitor spend against budgets and forecast targets.
Analyze cloud consumption trends and identify potential risks or variances.
Assist with forecasting models by incorporating application growth, customer demand, migrations, and platform initiatives.
Support planning activities for commitments, reservations, and discount programs.
Cost Allocation & Unit Economics
Drive tagging compliance and allocation governance to improve financial visibility.
Support implementation and maintenance of chargeback and showback models.
Enable transparency into cloud spend by application, service, team, and business unit.
Assist in developing and maintaining unit economics and cost-to-serve reporting.
Partner with Finance to improve cloud cost transparency and reporting accuracy.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Identify and prioritize optimization opportunities across AWS and GCP environments.
Partner with engineering teams to execute rightsizing, storage optimization, commitment utilization, and waste reduction initiatives.
Track optimization recommendations through implementation and realization.
Monitor savings performance and report identified versus realized savings.
Support anomaly management and investigation of unexpected spend patterns.
Reporting, Analytics & Enablement
Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and KPIs that provide visibility into cloud spending and optimization opportunities.
Analyze cost and usage data to uncover trends, insights, and risks.
Support self-service reporting initiatives and adoption of FinOps tools.
Educate stakeholders on cloud financial management concepts and optimization best practices.
Partner with Data Engineering and Analytics teams to improve reporting automation and data quality.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Work closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, SRE, Finance, Procurement, and Cloud Platform teams.
Support implementation of cloud governance policies and standards.
Participate in cloud cost reviews, architecture discussions, and planning sessions.
Collaborate with FinOps leadership to improve operational maturity and adoption of FinOps practices across the organization.
Required Skills & Experience
Experience
3+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, cloud operations, IT finance, or related disciplines.
Experience supporting cloud cost optimization, reporting, budgeting, or forecasting activities.
Experience working with engineering and business stakeholders.
Technical Skills
Familiarity with AWS and/or GCP billing and cost management services.
Experience with cloud cost reporting and analytics tools.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Advanced Microsoft Excel and data analysis capabilities.
Experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.
Core Competencies
Cloud cost governance and accountability.
Budget planning and forecasting support.
Cost allocation and tagging strategies.
Data analysis and reporting.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate technical cloud consumption data into business insights.
Preferred Qualifications
FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.
AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, or GCP Cloud Digital Leader certification.
Experience in multi-cloud environments (AWS and GCP).
Knowledge of commitment management programs including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Committed Use Discounts.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
What We Offer
A People First culture that values diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.
Opportunity to help shape UKG's cloud financial management and FinOps maturity journey.
Exposure to large-scale cloud environments and enterprise optimization programs.
Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Continuous learning, certification, and career development opportunities.
Success Measures
Within this role, success will be measured by:
Forecast accuracy and budget adherence within supported business units.
Increased cloud cost visibility and allocation accuracy.
Realized optimization savings and waste elimination outcomes.
Improvements in tagging compliance and unit economics reporting.
Adoption of FinOps best practices by engineering and product teams.
Contribution toward UKG's cloud cost governance and savings objectives.
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.
UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.
