Data Reporting Analytics Contractors

Overview

We’re seeking a contractor to enhance our cloud cost reporting and forecasting to give portfolio and application leaders timely, actionable visibility into spend. Today, leaders lack near real-time insight into application costs, limiting their ability to make fast adjustments and avoid budget run-out.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and enhance Power BI dashboards for:
• Month-to-date (MTD) cost views
• Cost trends and key drivers by portfolio/application
• Forecasting (run-rate and forward-looking projections)
• Drill-downs for application, owner, subscription/resource group, and other relevant dimensions
• Ingest and model cost data from Azure Data Explorer (Kusto/KQL) and design a performant semantic model for reporting.
• Lead requirements elicitation with portfolio and application leaders:
• Facilitate working sessions to understand “what they want to see”
• Translate needs into report mockups, user stories, and an iterative delivery plan
• Define and document business rules (allocation/tagging logic, cost categories, definitions of MTD/forecast, etc.).
• Implement report governance basics: refresh approach, access/security, and lightweight documentation for handoff.
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Power BI experience (data modeling, DAX, performance tuning, and dashboard design).
• Hands-on experience with Azure Data Explorer and KQL (querying and shaping data for analytics).
• Proven ability in stakeholder interviews/workshops and turning ambiguous asks into clear reporting requirements.
• Strong communication skills; able to present insights to leaders and iterate quickly.
  
  

Preferred

• Familiarity with FinOps practices (unit economics, showback/chargeback concepts, cost allocation, optimization signals).
• Experience building cost transparency reporting for cloud