# Senior FinOps Specialist

## About the Role

Mediahuis is strengthening its Technology & Product Studio with a Senior FinOps Specialist to make its multi-cloud environment financially sustainable, transparent, and efficient.

You will work at the intersection of cloud technology, finance, and business. The role focuses on helping teams understand their cloud usage and costs, take ownership, and make better-informed decisions.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, finance, and management teams to translate cloud data into actionable insights, support financial planning, and continuously improve cloud value across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud environments.

## Key Responsibilities

– Build transparency around cloud costs and develop clear showback models.
– Establish and monitor standards for tagging, ownership, and cost allocation.
– Support cloud-cost forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning.
– Analyse cloud usage and identify cost-optimization opportunities.
– Develop dashboards, reports, analyses, and recommendations.
– Work with engineering, platform, finance, and management stakeholders.
– Help embed FinOps practices across Mediahuis.
– Support teams in understanding the reasons behind their cloud costs, the value generated, and opportunities to work more efficiently.

## Required Skills

– Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Economics, a related field, or equivalent experience.
– Relevant experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, cloud governance, cloud engineering, or cloud financial management.
– Knowledge of at least one major public cloud platform.
– Experience with cost allocation, tagging, showback or chargeback, forecasting, budgeting, and cloud optimization.
– Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineering and cloud or platform teams.
– Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn large data sets into clear insights and actions.
– Strong communication skills, with the ability to connect technical and financial stakeholders.
– Pragmatic and proactive approach, including helping to implement solutions.
– Professional proficiency in English.

## Preferred Skills

– Experience with AWS and/or Azure.
– Experience with GCP.
– Experience with FinOps frameworks.
– FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers

– AWS
– Microsoft Azure
– Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
– Private cloud

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Improve cloud-spend visibility through reporting and showback.
– Develop governance standards for tagging, ownership, and cost allocation.
– Support forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning for cloud costs.
– Identify and implement cloud-cost optimization opportunities.
– Translate cloud-cost data into dashboards, analyses, and recommendations.
– Encourage teams to take responsibility for their cloud usage and expenditure.
– Help establish FinOps practices across the organisation.

## Benefits

– Home working: 3 days
– Group insurance
– Company car
– Fuel card or charging card
– Meal vouchers
– Smartphone and laptop
– Additional statutory leave days
– Individual hospitalisation insurance
– Hospitalisation insurance for family members
– Lease bicycle
– Parking
– Public transport allowance
– Bicycle allowance
– Mobility budget
– Eco vouchers
– Training opportunities
– Cafeteria plan
– 13th-month payment
– Competitive salary package
– Opportunities for personal development and further specialisation in cloud and FinOps

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to shape FinOps within a complex multi-cloud environment. You will have visible influence on cloud strategy and expenditure while working across technology, finance, and business disciplines. The position combines autonomy with international collaboration and provides scope for training and further specialisation.