Business Requirements

Prior to starting the installation of FinOps Center, customers must understand how their company is organized by Roles and Organizational Naming.

Roles

During the installation of FinOps Center, the Role Names are created in Amazon Cognito. The functionality of the Roles is independent of the naming but will help if they are align to your organizational naming.

Default Labels for Roles

Admin

Technical Team Member that will be responsible for Setting up FinOps Center, Adding AWS Accounts, and Claiming Resource to Workloads.

Vendor Manager

Procurement, Finance, or Business Leader that manages discounts and buying decisions of AWS.

Financial Admin

FinOps Leadership that will be responsible for adding budgets, adding users to budgets, mapping aws accounts to budgets, adding AWS Credits to budgets, and all Month Close Activieis

BU_Manager

BU Manager is a Business/Finance Role responsible for AWS Spending within a Business Unit.

Department Manager

Department Manager is a Business/Finance Role responsible for AWS Spending within a Department

Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager is a Business/Development Role responsible for AWS Spending within a Porfolio of Products that actively manages budgets and cost governance processes.

Product Manager

Product Manager is a Business/Development Role responsible for AWS Spending within a Product(s) that actively manages workloads, budgets, and cost governance processes.

Configured During FinOps Center Cloud Formatio

Organizational Naming is aligned to how customers Chart of Accounts are constructed. Organizational Naming can be update once a year aligned to your Creating of an annual budget.

Organization Naming is set via the Budget Creation Process which occurs via a csv upload or via the Budget Screen. The Organization Naming will be visible throughout the FinOps Center application and will need to be implemented in the Amazon Q in Quicksight Topics (if changed).

Default Organization Naming

Organization Naming

When creating Budget, you will be ble to provide Orgnaization Naming in the Create Budget.

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