The Cloud FinOps Analyst / Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Engineer supports teams in understanding, forecasting, and improving cloud spend. The role focuses on analysing billing and usage data, allocating costs appropriately, identifying spending anomalies, and assessing savings opportunities while balancing service requirements.
This position works across Finance, Engineering, Procurement, and business stakeholders to support spending reviews and financial accountability. Depending on the role emphasis, it may focus on reporting and forecast accuracy, cost allocation, or automating cloud cost visibility and controls to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse cloud billing and usage data to improve spend visibility and financial accountability.
- Support cost allocation, including shared cost allocation and tagging-related processes.
- Prepare forecasts, dashboards, and expenditure reports.
- Investigate budget variances, unexpected charges, and spending anomalies.
- Evaluate cloud savings opportunities against workload and service requirements.
- Assess rightsizing opportunities, idle resources, storage options, and usage commitments.
- For engineer-focused roles, build reporting pipelines and cost controls using scripting and cloud APIs.
- Help measure realised savings and business unit costs.
Required Skills
- Degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in cloud cost management, financial analysis, cloud infrastructure, or FinOps.
- Understanding of cloud consumption, billing structures, pricing models, and cost allocation.
- Strong Excel and SQL skills.
- Experience creating dashboards and expenditure reports.
- Ability to forecast spending, explain budget variances, and investigate unexpected charges.
- Familiarity with tagging, shared cost allocation, budgets, and cloud cost management tools.
- Ability to assess rightsizing, idle resources, storage options, and usage commitments against workload needs.
- Strong communication skills for working with Finance, Engineering, Procurement, and business stakeholders.
- For engineer positions: experience using scripting, cloud APIs, and automation to build reporting pipelines and cost controls.
Preferred Skills
- Relevant cloud or FinOps certification.
- Experience measuring realised savings and business unit costs.
FinOps Responsibilities
- Analyse cloud spend, billing, and usage to improve visibility and accountability.
- Allocate costs, including shared costs, and support tagging-based allocation practices.
- Forecast spending and explain budget variances.
- Investigate unexpected charges and spending anomalies.
- Identify savings opportunities and evaluate them against workload needs.
- Assess rightsizing, idle resources, storage choices, and usage commitments.
- Build reporting pipelines and cost controls through scripting and cloud APIs, where applicable.
- Measure realised savings and business unit costs.
Why You Might Be Interested
This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of Finance, Engineering, Procurement, and business teams on cloud cost management. It combines analytical work, financial reporting, and practical optimisation activities such as rightsizing and cost allocation. For candidates interested in both operational FinOps and, in some cases, automation and reporting engineering, the position provides a broad scope of cloud financial responsibility.
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