FinOps Administrator

Position summary

Cost monitoring and allocation

• Monitor costs across public cloud, on-premise or private cloud, and SaaS platforms; track compute, storage, networking, PaaS, and shared-service consumption.
• Identify cost anomalies and escalate them to the FinOps Lead.
• Enforce tagging standards for entity, service, cost center, and environment; validate allocations across entities, departments, and services.
• Maintain mappings for showback and chargeback models.

Tools, budgets, and optimization

• Operate cloud-native cost tools, FinOps platforms, Excel, and Power BI dashboards; maintain data consistency and support automated reports and alerts.
• Track cloud and platform spending against approved budgets and provide historical usage, monthly trends, and variance reports for forecasting.
• Flag budget risks; identify idle or underused resources and unused SaaS licenses; support rightsizing and cleanup with technical teams.
• Track realized savings and cost avoidance.

Reporting, ITSM, and governance

• Prepare daily or weekly summaries, monthly showback or chargeback reports, and service- and entity-level consumption reports.
• Maintain dashboards for management, service owners, and finance stakeholders.
• Link service catalog entries to cost models, support request-based costing, align CMDB data with cost allocation, and support FinOps service requests and workflows.
• Maintain tagging standards, reporting definitions, allocation rules, SOPs, and runbooks; support audits and management reviews.

Experience and skills

• Requires 2–5 years of experience in cloud operations, financial reporting, IT operations support, or cost management or budgeting roles.
• Requires exposure to at least one of Azure, AWS, or Oracle OCI and experience with financial or operational data.
• Requires strong Excel skills, including pivot tables and formulas, and experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools.
• Requires understanding of cloud billing concepts and basic cloud services and cost drivers.
• Requires attention to detail, data accuracy, coordination, communication, and the ability to work with technical and finance teams.

Preferred certifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner, or working toward it, is preferred.
• Azure Fundamentals or AWS Cloud Practitioner certification is preferred.
• ITIL v4 Foundation is an advantage.

Deliverables and performance indicators

Reporting line and collaboration

Compensation

• Pay is AED 14,000–16,000 per month.

Work arrangement

• Work location is in person.