Pranjal Arora

Certified FinOps Practitioner with 3+ years of consulting experience in Cloud Financial Management, IT Financial Management, FinOps, budgeting, forecasting, cloud cost optimization, financial governance, and cloud cost allocation across Azure, AWS, and GCP environments. Experienced in partnering with Finance, Product, Engineering, Procurement, Operations, and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) teams to improve financial accountability, cost transparency, and cloud investment decisions. Skilled in cloud financial reporting, chargeback/showback, recharge models, KPI monitoring, Power BI dashboards, governance frameworks, and identifying cloud optimization opportunities that deliver measurable business value.

Associate Consultant – Digital Risk Consulting at Ernst and Young LLP (EY), India (2023-11 – Present)

Delivered FinOps consulting engagements across Azure, AWS, and GCP, supporting cloud financial management, governance, budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization initiatives.

• Reduced Azure cloud costs by approximately 40% through reservation planning, VM rightsizing, autoscaling recommendations, backup optimization, scheduled shutdown policies, and removal of idle resources.
• Recommended Azure Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and licensing optimization strategies based on workload utilization, reducing compute costs by 30–40%.
• Prepared monthly cloud budgets, annual forecasts, variance analysis, and financial reports to support cloud investment planning and governance.
• Conducted cloud cost assessments and developed optimization roadmaps by identifying cost trends, anomalies, utilization patterns, and savings opportunities across Azure workloads.
• Developed application- and business unit-level cost allocation, chargeback, and recharge models using standardized tagging and FOCUS methodology, improving financial transparency and cloud cost recovery.
• Designed and implemented chargeback, showback, and cloud recharge models, enabling accurate cloud cost recovery and financial accountability across business units.
• Partnered with Product Management, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Operations, and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) teams to establish cloud budgets, monitor spend, and support strategic investment decisions.
• Managed cloud financial governance activities, including billing profile validation, subscription onboarding, purchase order (PO) validation, budget assignment, tagging governance, and financial compliance.
• Developed executive Power BI dashboards and KPI reports covering cloud spend, budgets, forecasts, optimization pipeline, savings realization, tagging compliance, and financial performance.
• Produced monthly executive cloud financial reports highlighting spend trends, budget performance, cost anomalies, optimization opportunities, and realized savings.
• Conducted Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cost assessments, identifying idle clusters, node pool optimization opportunities, autoscaling improvements, and workload efficiency recommendations.
• Monitored cloud utilization, financial KPIs, and cost anomalies, providing actionable recommendations that improved cloud efficiency and reduced unnecessary spending.
• Supported implementation of FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) and utilized FinOps Navigator to improve cloud cost reporting, allocation accuracy, and FinOps maturity assessments.
• Collaborated with Procurement and IT Asset Management teams to govern cloud subscriptions, licensing, billing structures, technology assets, and financial controls throughout the cloud lifecycle.
• Contributed to pre-sales activities by preparing cloud cost assessments, optimization roadmaps, governance frameworks, ROI analyses, and FinOps proposals for prospective clients.

Analyst – Insights & Advisory (TMT) at Evalueserve, India (2022-10 – 2023-10)

• Conducted market and competitive research for global technology clients across the Telecom, Media, and Technology (TMT) sector.
• Developed competitive intelligence reports and sales battlecards supporting strategic business development initiatives.
• Delivered business insights, industry analysis, and executive-ready reports to strengthen client engagement strategies.
• Performed data analysis and secondary research using large datasets to identify market trends, business opportunities, and competitive positioning.

Master of Business Administration in Marketing – Chitkara Business School – Rajpura, Punjab, India (2021-09 – 2023-06)

Bachelor of Commerce in Commerce – Panjab University – Chandigarh, India (2018-08 – 2021-05)