Cloud FinOps Analyst | Cloud Cost Manager

Role overview

Cloud spend and optimization

• Analyze cloud consumption, spending patterns, usage trends, cost drivers, and expenditure across services, accounts, subscriptions, projects, and business units.
• Develop cost dashboards, reports, forecasts, and financial models; establish allocation, chargeback, and showback methods.
• Track budgets, spending limits, forecasts, and actual expenditure; investigate variances and escalate significant deviations.
• Identify unnecessary and underused resources and recommend rightsizing, scheduling, scaling, reserved capacity, savings plans, and other optimization strategies.
• Analyze costs for compute, storage, databases, networking, and other cloud services; evaluate pricing models and their business impact.

Planning, governance, and commercial work

• Support budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, long-term projections, and accurate forecasts based on usage, growth, and technology plans.
• Partner with Engineering and DevOps to integrate cost awareness into cloud architecture and development; collaborate with IT and Cloud teams on standards and governance.
• Establish cost KPIs, efficiency metrics, targets, and unit economics; support business cases for cloud services, migrations, modernization, and technology investments.
• Work with Procurement on cloud contracts, pricing, discounts, and vendor commitments; reconcile invoices, identify billing anomalies, and track realized savings.
• Maintain cost-management policies and documentation, promote FinOps awareness, and provide financial insights for cloud investment decisions.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Previous 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 equivalent environments.
• Experience analyzing cloud expenditure and identifying cost-optimization opportunities.

Technical and analytical qualifications

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, financial modeling, and data analysis.
• Familiarity with 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.
• Cloud cost-management and FinOps tools are preferred.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar dashboard platforms is advantageous.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, APIs, or automation tools is beneficial; cloud architecture, DevOps, infrastructure, and resource utilization knowledge is preferred.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, problem-solving, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills; ability to manage multiple initiatives.
• Relevant FinOps, cloud, finance, or technology certifications are advantageous.

What the employer offers

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits; salary amount and cadence are not specified.
• Exposure to large-scale cloud environments, modern FinOps practices, cloud and financial-analysis tools, and collaboration across technology, finance, operations, and business strategy.
• Professional development and support for relevant certifications, with opportunities to lead cost-optimization and governance initiatives.
• Collaborative, data-driven environment with recognition for measurable savings and career progression opportunities in FinOps and technology finance.