## Cloud FinOps Engineer
**Location:** London, UK

## About the Role
The Cloud FinOps Engineer is responsible for the financial governance, reporting, forecasting, and commercial oversight of the organisation’s public cloud estate across Azure, AWS, and GCP. The role exists to ensure cloud spending is transparent, accurately allocated, financially controlled, and continuously optimised.

You will work closely with Cloud Engineering, Platform Operations, Business Unit leaders, Finance, Procurement, and Cloud Service Owners to bring financial discipline to a distributed cloud environment. The position combines cloud cost management, financial analysis, and stakeholder partnership to help improve decision-making and business value from cloud consumption.

A key part of the role is to strengthen allocation, chargeback, and governance processes while identifying savings opportunities and improving forecast accuracy. The role also supports vendor and commercial reviews, reservation management, and reporting for both operational and executive audiences.

## Key Responsibilities
– Establish and maintain cloud financial governance processes, standards, and controls.
– Ensure cloud costs are accurately allocated to products, applications, business units, and cost centres.
– Maintain and improve chargeback, showback, recharge, and allocation models.
– Oversee tagging standards, ownership validation, and cost accountability processes.
– Act as a subject matter expert for FinOps and cloud financial management.
– Identify, prioritise, and manage cost optimisation opportunities across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
– Support rightsizing, storage optimisation, reserved capacity, and licensing optimisation initiatives.
– Track savings opportunities and report realised benefits against forecasts.
– Build and maintain dashboards for cloud account owners, product owners, business leaders, Finance teams, and executive leadership.
– Produce reporting on cloud spend, consumption trends, unit economics, cost allocation, savings, forecast accuracy, and budget performance.
– Develop and maintain cloud expenditure forecasts across multiple cloud platforms.
– Analyse forecast variances and work with Finance teams on budgets, quarterly forecasts, and financial outlooks.
– Analyse cloud billing and consumption data to identify anomalies, trends, and cost drivers.
– Investigate unexpected spend increases, billing discrepancies, and forecast deviations.
– Manage Azure and AWS reservation and savings plan activity, including utilisation reviews and true-up actions.
– Support cloud vendor negotiations, renewals, commercial analysis, and business reviews.
– Govern cloud marketplace purchases and subscription-based vendor offerings.
– Maintain and improve allocation methods for shared cloud services and recharge models.

## Required Skills
– Strong experience in Cloud Financial Operations, FinOps, IT Financial Management, Technology Business Management (TBM), or a related discipline.
– Hands-on experience with at least one major enterprise cloud platform: Azure or AWS.
– Strong understanding of cloud consumption, billing models, and cloud technologies at an operational level.
– Experience with one or more of the following:
– Apptio Cloudability
– Apptio One
– Apptio TBM frameworks and methodologies
– Azure Cost Management
– AWS Cost Explorer
– AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)
– FinOps Foundation best practices
– Strong financial modelling and forecasting capability.
– Ability to analyse detailed cost data from large and complex datasets.
– Advanced Excel and Power BI skills, including pivot tables, financial modelling, and data reconciliation.
– Experience producing budgets, forecasts, variance analyses, and executive financial reports.
– Excellent quantitative and problem-solving skills.
– Ability to work effectively with Finance, Procurement, Executive leadership, Product owners, Cloud engineers, and Platform Operations teams.
– Strong presentation and communication skills.
– Ability to explain complex financial information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

## Preferred Skills
– FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Professional certification.
– Microsoft Azure certification or AWS certification.
– IBM Apptio, Cloudability, or TBM certification.
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
– Experience with Coupa or a similar procurement system.
– Experience with Oracle Essbase, Hyperion, or similar financial planning and modelling tools.
– Experience with SQL, Power BI, or other data analytics platforms.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies
### Cloud Providers
– Azure
– AWS
– GCP

### FinOps Platforms
– Apptio Cloudability
– Apptio One
– Apptio TBM frameworks and methodologies
– Azure Cost Management
– AWS Cost Explorer
– AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)
– FinOps Foundation best practices

### Reporting & BI
– Excel
– Power BI

### Data & Analytics
– SQL

### Collaboration Tools / Business Systems
– Coupa
– Oracle Essbase
– Hyperion

## FinOps Responsibilities
– Maintain cloud financial governance, controls, and ownership standards.
– Implement and improve cost allocation, chargeback, and showback models.
– Monitor cloud spending across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
– Identify and deliver cost optimisation opportunities.
– Track savings realisation and compare achieved benefits with forecasts.
– Develop cloud spend forecasts and analyse forecast variance.
– Produce reporting on spend, consumption, unit economics, allocation, and budget performance.
– Analyse billing and consumption data for anomalies, trends, and cost drivers.
– Manage reserved instances and savings plans, including utilisation reviews and true-ups.
– Support cloud vendor negotiations, renewals, and commercial reviews.
– Govern marketplace purchases and shared services recharge models.

## Benefits
– Exposure to cloud financial management across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
– Opportunity to work with Finance, Procurement, engineering, and business leadership teams.
– Access to large data sets and analytics tools.
– Scope to work across diverse geographies and technology areas.
– Career development opportunities within a global healthcare and life sciences organisation.

## Useful Links
– Company Website: https://jobs.iqvia.com
– Job Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4477145690

## Why You Might Be Interested
This role offers a broad FinOps remit across major cloud platforms, combining governance, forecasting, optimisation, and commercial analysis. It is well suited to someone who wants to influence cloud spend discipline while working closely with Finance, Procurement, and technical teams. The position also includes exposure to reservations, vendor negotiations, shared services allocation, and executive reporting. For candidates interested in applying FinOps practices in a large enterprise environment, it provides a strong mix of analytical depth and stakeholder engagement.