# About the Role

This role focuses on improving visibility, accountability, and control over cloud spending. It supports financial analysis of cloud usage and billing, cost forecasting, allocation processes, and variance investigation, while also helping identify optimisation opportunities in collaboration with Finance and technical teams.

The position may be framed as a Cloud Financial Analyst, Cloud Financial Consultant, or Cloud Financial Specialist, depending on scope. In each case, the role contributes to stronger cloud financial management through reporting, reconciliation, budgeting, and regular cost review.

The exact emphasis varies by title: analysts focus on cost models, forecasts, and performance reporting; consultants assess current practices and advise on governance improvements; specialists maintain allocation rules, budget controls, billing checks, and action tracking.

## Key Responsibilities

– Analyse cloud billing and usage data to improve spend visibility and control.
– Develop forecasts, reports, and cost insights for stakeholders.
– Allocate cloud spend and maintain allocation rules where applicable.
– Investigate cost variances and explain unexpected charges.
– Review billing, budgets, and recurring costs to support financial accountability.
– Assess cloud financial practices and recommend improvements.
– Evaluate optimisation opportunities in coordination with Finance and technical teams.
– Support budgeting, billing reconciliation, and cost governance activities.
– Track follow-up actions related to cost control and financial processes.

## Required Skills

– Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
– Relevant experience in financial analysis, cloud cost management, technology finance, or FinOps.
– Understanding of cloud consumption, billing structures, pricing models, and cost allocation.
– Strong Excel skills.
– Familiarity with SQL, dashboards, and cloud cost reporting tools.
– Ability to forecast expenditure and explain variances.
– Ability to investigate unexpected charges.
– Familiarity with tagging, shared cost allocation, budgeting, and billing reconciliation.
– Ability to evaluate savings opportunities in relation to workload requirements, service commitments, and financial risks.

## Preferred Skills

– Experience developing cost models, forecasts, and performance reports for analyst roles.
– Experience assessing financial practices, developing business cases, and advising stakeholders on cost governance for consultant roles.
– Experience maintaining allocation processes, budget alerts, billing controls, and action tracking for specialist roles.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Programming Languages
– SQL

### Reporting & BI
– Dashboards
– Cloud cost reporting tools

### Collaboration Tools
– Excel

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Analyse cloud spend, billing, and usage to improve cost visibility.
– Forecast cloud expenditure and support budget planning.
– Allocate cloud costs and maintain allocation rules.
– Investigate variances and reconcile billing issues.
– Review recurring costs and budget controls.
– Identify optimisation opportunities based on workload needs, service commitments, and financial risk.
– Support tagging and shared cost allocation practices.
– Develop and maintain cost governance processes.
– Track actions related to cloud financial management improvements.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This opportunity offers a clear focus on cloud financial management across analysis, governance, and optimisation. It is suited to candidates who want to work closely with Finance and technical stakeholders while building stronger controls around cloud spend. The role also provides scope to contribute through forecasting, reporting, allocation, and cost review, with the emphasis varying by analyst, consultant, or specialist track.

## Useful Links

– Company Website: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4484302753
– Careers: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4484302753