Senior FinOps Analyst

• Role : Senior FinOps Analyst
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Location : London, United Kingdom
• Work Model: Hybrid
• Compensation : £70,000 – £95,000 per year + Bonus & Benefits

About the Role:

Our client—a leading global online delivery and marketplace platform—is recruiting a Senior FinOps Analyst in London. In this critical intersection of finance, cloud engineering, and operations, you will manage, analyze, and optimize multi-million pound cloud infrastructure expenditure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, driving financial accountability and engineering cost-efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise cloud financial management (FinOps), tracking, forecasting, and allocating multi-cloud infrastructure spend.
• Partner directly with engineering leads and product architects to identify cloud resource wastage, rightsizing, and architectural optimizations.
• Manage cloud commitment strategies, including Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and committed use discounts to maximize savings.
• Build automated cost-allocation models, chargeback/showback mechanisms, and unit-economic metrics (cost per order, cost per query).
• Develop real-time FinOps dashboards and reporting suites in CloudHealth, AWS Cost Explorer, Kubecost, or Datadog.
• Lead regular FinOps review meetings with engineering directors and the CFO organization to review burn rates and budget variances.
• Champion a culture of cloud cost awareness, defining tagging policies, governance guardrails, and anomaly alerting systems.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 4+ years of dedicated FinOps, cloud financial operations, or cloud cost optimization experience in an enterprise cloud environment.
• Certified FinOps Practitioner or professional cloud certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is highly desirable.
• Deep understanding of cloud billing architectures, pricing models, container cost allocation (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE), and SaaS tooling.
• Advanced data modeling capabilities with strong proficiency in SQL, Excel, and BI visualization platforms (Tableau, Looker).
• Proven track record delivering substantial six-to-seven figure annual cloud spend optimizations.
• Outstanding stakeholder communication skills, comfortable interacting with both software engineers and finance directors.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics, or related field.

What the Role Offers:

Competitive base salary with annual performance bonus.

Workplace pension matching, comprehensive health and dental coverage, and wellness benefits in London.

Hybrid work model offering strong work-life balance and schedule flexibility.

High visibility advising technology leadership on strategic multi-million pound cloud investments.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Our client is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive culture where diversity of thought and experience is celebrated. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected status under applicable European and UK labor laws.

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