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