# FinOps Practitioner

## About the Role

This role supports cloud financial excellence by improving how cloud spend is understood, governed, and optimized across managed accounts. The position exists to strengthen cost efficiency, build accountability around cloud usage, and turn financial data into clear actions.

You will work closely with engineering, finance, delivery, architecture, and client stakeholders. The role bridges technical and non-technical teams, helping align budgets, tagging standards, allocation models, and governance rules with business priorities.

## Key Responsibilities

– Investigate cloud overspend, anomalies, and budget overruns through root cause analysis.
– Quantify the impact of cost inefficiencies and present findings in a clear, actionable way to support remediation.
– Profile managed accounts to identify waste, rightsizing opportunities, and gaps in commitment coverage.
– Define, document, and enforce FinOps rules, tagging standards, and cost allocation models with cross-functional stakeholders.
– Translate business and commercial needs into technical controls, budget alerts, and governance guardrails.
– Maintain cloud cost dashboards, showback reporting, and shared cost allocations.
– Track and report FinOps KPIs, including savings delivered, forecast accuracy, unit economics, and commitment utilization.
– Support optimization efforts across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, rightsizing, scheduling, and waste elimination.
– Monitor contractual commitment coverage with cloud resellers such as DoiT, Elastic, and Oracle.
– Help improve cloud provisioning and resource management practices at source.
– Evaluate FinOps tooling and working practices to improve efficiency and insight quality.

## Required Skills

– 1–3 years of experience in a cloud-related, finance, or IT operations role.
– Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
– Foundational understanding of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
– Basic knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and cost analysis.
– Ability to query, manipulate, and interpret data to generate insights.
– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
– Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical and financial topics to different audiences.
– Fluency in English.
– Attention to detail and comfort working with governed financial data.
– Ability to develop or contribute to cloud financial models, including budgeting, forecasting, and TCO analysis.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP), or willingness to obtain it shortly after joining.
– Direct FinOps experience.
– Experience with SQL, Excel, or similar tools.
– Exposure to Tableau, Power BI, or cloud-native cost dashboards.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Service Models
– IaaS
– PaaS
– SaaS

### FinOps Platforms & Tools
– Cloud billing tools
– Reporting platforms
– Cloud-native cost dashboards
– DoiT
– Elastic
– Oracle

### Data & Analytics
– SQL
– Excel
– Tableau
– Power BI

### Cost Optimization Mechanisms
– Reserved Instances
– Savings Plans

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Analyze cloud spend to identify root causes of overspend and inefficiency.
– Improve cost transparency through showback, allocation, and dashboard reporting.
– Strengthen FinOps governance through tagging standards, policies, and cost controls.
– Monitor KPI trends such as savings, forecast accuracy, unit economics, and commitment usage.
– Drive optimization initiatives including rightsizing, scheduling, and waste reduction.
– Track commitment coverage with cloud resellers and support ongoing cost management improvements.

## Benefits

– Flexible working hours.
– Work-from-home possibilities.
– 20 days of holiday plus 12 WTR days in a 40-hour week.
– Headquarters with access to TVH Park, including green space for breaks, meetings, and lunch.
– Competitive salary package with extra-legal benefits, including a company car, group insurance, hospitalization insurance, luncheon vouchers, and a corporate restaurant.
– Ongoing guidance plus internal and external training opportunities.
– Optional afterworks and events such as TVH Kaffee.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to work at the intersection of cloud, finance, and delivery. You will handle cost analysis, governance, reporting, and optimization work that has direct visibility for leadership and clients. It also provides regular collaboration with both technical and commercial stakeholders, which suits someone who enjoys turning data into practical action. Flexible working arrangements and development support are also part of the package.