# Senior FinOps Analyst

– **Employment Type:** Full-time
– **Location:** London, United Kingdom
– **Work Model:** Hybrid
– **Compensation:** £70,000–£95,000 per year plus bonus and benefits

## About the Role

A global online delivery and marketplace platform is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to manage and optimize multi-million-pound cloud infrastructure spend across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

The role operates across finance, cloud engineering, and operations. You will work with engineering leads, product architects, engineering directors, and the CFO organization to improve cost efficiency, strengthen financial accountability, and support strategic cloud investment decisions.

You will lead cloud cost tracking, forecasting, allocation, reporting, and governance while identifying opportunities to reduce waste and improve architectural efficiency.

## Key Responsibilities

– Lead enterprise FinOps activities across a multi-cloud environment.
– Partner with engineering and architecture teams on rightsizing, resource utilization, and cloud architecture improvements.
– Develop cost-allocation models, chargeback/showback processes, and unit-economic metrics such as cost per order and cost per query.
– Create real-time dashboards and reporting suites for cloud spend and operational performance.
– Run regular FinOps reviews with engineering leadership and the CFO organization, covering burn rates and budget variances.
– Establish tagging policies, governance controls, and cloud-spend anomaly alerting.
– Promote greater awareness of cloud costs across engineering and finance stakeholders.

## Required Skills

– At least four years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial operations, or cloud cost optimization within an enterprise cloud environment.
– Strong understanding of cloud billing architectures, pricing models, container cost allocation, and SaaS tooling.
– Experience with Kubernetes cost allocation, including EKS and GKE environments.
– Advanced data-modelling skills and strong proficiency in SQL, Excel, and BI visualization platforms.
– Demonstrated success delivering annual cloud-spend optimizations valued in the six-to-seven-figure range.
– Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to work with software engineers and finance directors.
– Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics, or a related discipline.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Practitioner certification.
– Professional certification from AWS, GCP, or Azure.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
– Microsoft Azure

### Containers & Kubernetes
– Kubernetes
– Amazon EKS
– Google GKE

### FinOps and Cloud Cost Management
– CloudHealth
– AWS Cost Explorer
– Kubecost

### Monitoring and Reporting
– Datadog
– Tableau
– Looker

### Data and Productivity
– SQL
– Microsoft Excel

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Track, forecast, and allocate multi-cloud infrastructure expenditure.
– Manage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed use discounts.
– Identify cloud waste and rightsizing opportunities with engineering teams.
– Build chargeback/showback models and unit-cost metrics.
– Deliver dashboards and reporting for cloud financial performance.
– Review burn rates, budget variances, and cost anomalies.
– Define tagging standards and cloud-cost governance controls.

## Benefits

– Annual performance bonus.
– Workplace pension matching.
– Health and dental coverage.
– Wellness benefits in London.
– Hybrid working with schedule flexibility.
– High-visibility opportunity to advise technology leadership on multi-million-pound cloud investments.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to manage significant multi-cloud expenditure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will work directly with both engineering and finance leadership on cost optimization, governance, and strategic investment decisions. The position also provides exposure to advanced FinOps tooling, cloud commitment strategies, and unit-economics modelling.