Mercari’s FinOps team plays a meaningful role in optimizing cloud spend and improving business agility. We develop a platform that allows our organization to make data-driven decisions, crafting maximum business value. Since the cloud infrastructure is used not only by Mercari JP but also by Merpay, Mercari US, and other group companies, any improvements could affect the performance of the entire organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain scalable data analysis dashboards for cost and usage forecasting, cloud consumption metrics, and business scenario metrics
- Monitor cloud consumption, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes
- Provide weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports with recommendations to drive savings and efficiencies
- Analyze and produce meaningful insights that can inform strategic and operational decisions
- Support the budget and forecast process in managing consumption, showback, and savings in collaboration with stakeholders
Requirements
- Shared understanding and belief in our company’s mission and values
- Experience in the public cloud environment (GCP and/or AWS)
- Experience building data visualization tools (Domo and/or Looker)
- Experience aggregating data using SQL
- Knowledge and understanding of statistics
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in both technical and non-technical contexts
Nice to haves
These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.
- FinOps certification
- Public cloud provider certification
- Knowledge and understanding of public cloud pricing schemes
- Knowledge of financial and accounting principles
- Experience in public cloud cost management projects in a larger organization
- Japanese ability
