## About the Role

This role focuses on improving the financial efficiency of cloud usage by working closely with engineering, finance, delivery, and leadership stakeholders. Its purpose is to strengthen FinOps governance, improve cost visibility, and support more accountable cloud decision-making across the organisation.

It acts as a bridge between technical teams and budget owners, translating business needs into cloud policies, tagging standards, and governance controls. The role also supports the analysis of overspend, anomalies, and cost inefficiencies, helping teams understand the drivers behind cloud spend and what action is needed.

## Key Responsibilities

– Carry out root-cause analysis on cloud overspend, including architectural, process, and governance-related causes.
– Analyse managed accounts to identify waste, anomalies, rightsizing opportunities, and commitment coverage gaps.
– Document findings, quantify the business impact, and present clear narratives to IT Platform and Product Owners.
– Work with engineering, delivery, and finance teams to define and enforce FinOps rules, tagging standards, and cost allocation models.
– Translate business and commercial requirements into automated cost controls, budget alerts, and governance guardrails.
– Build and maintain cloud cost dashboards, showback reporting, and shared cost allocation views.
– Monitor and report FinOps KPIs, including savings delivered, forecast accuracy, unit economics, and commitment utilisation.
– Support cloud cost optimisation initiatives across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, rightsizing, scheduling, and waste elimination.
– Maintain visibility of contractual commitment coverage with cloud resellers such as DoiT, Elastic, and Oracle.
– Help improve cloud provisioning and resource management practices, and assess FinOps tooling and approaches for ongoing improvement.

## 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.
– Working knowledge of cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
– Basic familiarity with budgeting, forecasting, and cost analysis.
– Ability to query, manipulate, and interpret data to surface insights.
– Comfort working with cloud billing tools and reporting platforms.
– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a habit of investigating cost anomalies and overruns.
– Clear and inclusive communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
– Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and escalate issues professionally.
– Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accurate, well-governed data.
– Curiosity and willingness to learn the FinOps discipline.
– Ability to challenge assumptions constructively when cloud spend needs to be improved.
– Fluent in English.
– Comfort working in an entrepreneurial, fast-growing environment.

## Preferred Skills

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

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

– **Cloud Service Models:** IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
– **Data and Analysis Tools:** SQL, Excel
– **Reporting and Visualisation:** Tableau, Power BI, cloud-native cost dashboards
– **FinOps and Billing Tools:** cloud billing tools, reporting platforms
– **Commitment Management:** Reserved Instances, Savings Plans
– **Cloud Resellers Referenced:** DoiT, Elastic, Oracle

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Investigate the causes of cloud overspend and budget overruns.
– Identify waste, rightsizing opportunities, and commitment coverage gaps.
– Define and enforce tagging standards, allocation models, and FinOps governance.
– Build showback reporting and shared cost allocation views.
– Track savings, forecast accuracy, unit economics, and commitment utilisation.
– Support budgeting, forecasting, and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis.
– Drive optimisation across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, scheduling, and waste reduction.
– Improve cloud provisioning and resource management to prevent unnecessary spend.

## Benefits

– Flexible working hours and work-from-home options.
– 20 days’ holiday plus 12 WTR days in a 40-hour week.
– Company car, group insurance, hospitalization insurance, luncheon vouchers, and a corporate restaurant.
– Access to TVH Park at headquarters, with green space for movement, relaxation, meetings, or lunch.
– Ongoing guidance plus internal and external training opportunities.
– Optional afterwork activities and events such as TVH Kaffee.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers direct ownership of cloud financial governance across engineering, finance, and delivery stakeholders. It combines analysis, reporting, optimisation, and policy work in a position that can influence how cloud spend is planned and controlled. The scope includes budgeting, forecasting, showback, commitment coverage, and KPI reporting, making it a strong fit for someone building a FinOps career. Flexible working arrangements, training, and a broad benefits package add further appeal.