Cloud FinOps Analyst | Cloud Cost Manager

Role overview

Cloud cost analysis and optimization

• Analyze cloud consumption, spending patterns, usage trends, and cost drivers across services, accounts, subscriptions, projects, and business units.
• Develop and maintain cost dashboards, reports, forecasts, financial models, budgets, and spending projections.
• Establish cost allocation and chargeback/showback methods; monitor budgets, spending limits, forecasts, and actual expenditure.
• Identify idle, underused, oversized, or unnecessary resources and recommend rightsizing, scheduling, scaling, reserved capacity, and savings plans.
• Evaluate cloud pricing models and analyze compute, storage, database, networking, and other service costs.
• Investigate cost variances, billing anomalies, unexpected or duplicate charges, and invoice errors; recommend corrective action.
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, IT, and Cloud teams on cost-aware architecture, governance standards, and FinOps practices.
• Monitor cost KPIs, efficiency metrics, optimization targets, and unit economics; track realized savings.
• Support cloud budgeting, business cases, and financial assessments for new services, migrations, modernization, and technology investments.
• Work with Procurement on cloud contracts, discounts, pricing, and vendor commitments; reconcile invoices with financial records.
• Maintain cost policies, allocation models, governance standards, and optimization procedures; improve reporting, automation, and financial visibility.
• Provide financial insights to leaders and promote cost accountability across engineering, IT, finance, and business teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Experience in FinOps, Cloud Cost Management, Technology Finance, IT Financial Management, Cloud Operations, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing, cloud financial management, billing structures, pricing models, usage metrics, and cost drivers.
• Experience with a major cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or an equivalent environment.
• Experience analyzing cloud expenditure and identifying cost-optimization opportunities.
• Strong Excel skills, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, financial modeling, and data analysis.
• Knowledge of cloud billing consoles, cost explorers, budgets, alerts, reporting platforms, resource tagging, account structures, cost centers, and cost allocation.
• Understanding of chargeback, showback, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis; strong analytical, quantitative, and investigative skills.
• Ability to translate technical cloud usage into financial and business insights and work across stakeholder groups.
• Cloud cost-management tools, dashboarding tools, SQL, Python, APIs, automation, and cloud architecture familiarity are preferred or advantageous.
• Relevant FinOps, cloud, finance, or technology certifications are advantageous.

What the employer offers

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits; no salary cadence or amount is stated.
• Exposure to large-scale cloud environments, modern FinOps practices, cloud platforms, financial-analysis tools, and business intelligence technologies.
• Professional development and support for relevant FinOps, cloud, finance, and professional certifications.
• Collaborative, data-driven environment, with opportunities to lead cost-optimization and financial-governance initiatives.
• Potential career progression toward Senior FinOps Analyst, FinOps Manager, Cloud Cost Manager, Technology Finance Manager, or Head of FinOps.