Cloud FinOps Analyst | Cloud Cost Manager

Role overview

Cloud cost analysis and optimization

• Analyze cloud consumption, spending patterns, usage trends, and cost drivers; manage expenditure across services, accounts, subscriptions, projects, and business units.
• Develop cloud cost dashboards, reports, forecasts, and financial models; establish cost allocation and chargeback/showback methodologies.
• Track budgets, limits, forecasts, and actual spending; investigate variances, explain them, recommend corrections, and escalate significant deviations.
• Identify unnecessary or underutilized resources and recommend rightsizing, scheduling, scaling, reserved capacity, savings plans, and other cost optimizations.
• Analyze compute, storage, database, networking, and other service costs; evaluate pricing models and their financial impact.
• Support budgets, financial planning, projections, and forecasts based on historical usage, business growth, and planned technology initiatives.
• Work with Engineering and DevOps to embed cost awareness; collaborate with IT and Cloud teams on cost-management standards and governance.
• Support FinOps throughout the cloud lifecycle; establish KPIs, efficiency metrics, optimization targets, and unit economics.
• Support business cases and assess the financial impact of cloud services, migrations, modernization, and digital transformation.
• Review cloud contracts, pricing, discounts, and vendor commitments; reconcile invoices, investigate anomalies and errors, track realized savings, and maintain cost-policy documentation.
• Provide financial insights to technology leaders and senior management; promote cost accountability and improve processes, reporting, automation, and visibility.

Requirements

• 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 and cloud financial management; experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or equivalent environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud billing structures, pricing models, usage metrics, cost drivers, and optimization opportunities.
• 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 allocation models.
• Understanding of chargeback, showback, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis; strong analytical, quantitative, and detail-oriented skills.
• Able to translate technical cloud usage into financial and business insights; strong financial modeling, forecasting, problem-solving, and investigative skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities; able to work across Finance, IT, Engineering, Procurement, and business teams.
• Able to manage multiple cost-analysis and optimization initiatives; strong commercial awareness and understanding of technology investment and business value.

Preferred and advantageous experience

• Experience with cloud cost-management and FinOps tools is preferred.
• Dashboard experience with Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar platforms is advantageous.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, APIs, or automation tools is beneficial.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, DevOps, infrastructure, and resource utilization is preferred.
• Relevant FinOps, cloud, finance, or technology certifications are advantageous.

What the employer offers

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits; opportunity to work across cloud technology, finance, operations, and business strategy.
• Exposure to large-scale cloud environments, modern FinOps practices, and financial-analysis and business-intelligence tools.
• Professional development, certification support, and opportunities to lead cost-optimization and financial-governance initiatives.
• Collaborative environment, exposure to senior leadership, career progression, and recognition for measurable savings and improved financial visibility.