Cloud Business Analyst [FinOps]

Role Overview

We are seeking a Cloud Business Analyst with FinOps experience to help improve the financial management and business value of cloud services. This role will work across finance, engineering, product, procurement, and operations to analyse cloud costs, develop actionable insights, and support effective cost allocation, forecasting, optimisation, and governance.

What You Will Do

Analyse cloud expenditure, usage, and cost trends across cloud platforms, services, teams, and business units, and develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and metrics to communicate cloud costs, budgets, forecasts, utilisation, and optimisation progress.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate combines strong business analysis and communication skills with an understanding of cloud platforms, financial data, and FinOps principles, and has experience in business analysis, financial analysis, cloud cost management, FinOps, or a closely related role.

Requirements

• Experience in business analysis, financial analysis, cloud cost management, FinOps, or a closely related role
• Understanding of cloud billing, consumption-based pricing, and cost drivers across services such as compute, storage, networking, and databases
• Ability to analyse financial and operational data, identify trends and anomalies, and develop practical recommendations
• Experience gathering and documenting business requirements, defining processes, and translating stakeholder needs into reporting or analytical solutions
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and data visualisation or reporting tools, such as Excel, Power BI, or equivalent platforms
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organisation, and attention-to-detail skills
• Ability to communicate cost analysis and technical concepts clearly to finance, engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across teams with different priorities
• Understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and financial reporting principles
• Ability to manage multiple requests and priorities while delivering accurate analysis to agreed timelines
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud