📊 Senior Lead Cloud Economics Specialist bei Celonis in München - Cost Analytics & Business Partner

Celonis leads the global market in Process Intelligence and Process Mining technology. As a rapidly scaling enterprise SaaS provider, we push boundaries through advanced AI capabilities like our Process Intelligence Graph to convert data into immediate action. Join us in unlocking productivity and sustainability on a global scale.

The Role

The Lead Cloud Economics Specialist drives analytics, automation, and operating processes for cloud cost management, cost attribution, optimization tracking, strategic vendor economics, and product-margin support. Partnering with Finance, Engineering, Product, IT, Procurement, and Data teams, you will turn complex usage and cost data into clear financial insights, scalable reporting, and executive-ready recommendations.

This senior, hands-on role sits at the intersection of Finance, cloud economics, data automation, and engineering support. You will build automated data pipelines, analyze technical cost drivers, and lead through cross-functional influence.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain comprehensive cost reporting across AWS, Azure, GCP, and related hosting environments.
• Improve attribution of infrastructure spend to specific services, teams, products, customers, and cost centers.
• Develop automated data pipelines connecting cloud billing, product usage, employee data, and financial metrics using Python, SQL, APIs, and BI tools.
• Maintain a robust optimization pipeline tracking opportunity size, owners, expected savings, and implementation status.
• Guide cloud commitment, reservation, savings-plan, and renewal decisions through usage baselines and forecast scenarios.
• Analyze strategic vendor spend for platforms like Datadog, Cloudflare, Databricks, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, and related usage.
• Partner directly with Product and Engineering leadership to translate technical cost trends into actionable financial insights.
• Create executive-ready reports on spend, risks, forecasts, and margin impacts.

First-Year Success Measures

• Automated recurring reporting for core cloud and strategic technology spend.
• Expanded attribution coverage for cloud and software expenditures.
• Established optimization pipeline delivering clear expected and realized savings.
• Faster anomaly detection and streamlined vendor commitment recommendations.
• Strong strategic partnership established with Product & Engineering stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 6 to 10+ years of analytical experience in Finance, Cloud Economics, FP&A, Strategic Finance, or Data Analytics.
• Advanced financial modeling capabilities and experience with large datasets.
• Hands-on proficiency with Python (or equivalent scripting language) for data analysis and reporting automation.
• Strong SQL skills alongside experience with BI tools, APIs, and cloud billing data pipelines.
• Proven background analyzing SaaS, infrastructure, cloud, or usage-based cost models.
• Exceptional cross-functional communication and executive presentation skills.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with Cloud FinOps, SaaS infrastructure economics, AI/LLM token economics, or software gross margin analysis.
• Experience collaborating directly with Product & Engineering organizations.

What Celonis Offers

• Ownership from Day 1 with Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
• Inclusive parental leave: 24 weeks fully paid for primary carers, 12 weeks for supporting carers.
• Flexible hybrid working model combined with generous PTO.
• Structured growth through a 70-20-10 learning model, dedicated mentorship, and training platforms.
• Subsidized health memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated Wellness Weeks.
• Paid volunteer days for community and environmental causes.

Celonis integrates process data with AI to create a living digital twin of business operations, empowering companies worldwide to continuously improve how they operate.