Cloud FinOps Analyst: Cost Optimization Leader

New Blue Diamond Contracting & General Maintenance LLC - Abu Dhabi; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Professional development opportunities

Certifications support

Cross-functional exposure

Job summary

New Blue Diamond Contracting & General Maintenance LLC - Abu Dhabi is seeking a Mid-Level to Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst to optimize cloud spending and improve financial visibility. The role collaborates with Finance, IT, Engineering, Procurement, and business teams to monitor usage and drive cost-efficiency across cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will manage cost dashboards, forecasts, and models, translate usage into business insights, and contribute to governance and optimization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, IT, or related field.
• Experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, or tech finance.
• Strong understanding of cloud pricing models and cost drivers.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP and cloud billing.
• Advanced Excel skills and financial modeling.
• Ability to translate usage data into business insights.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, or Looker is advantageous.
• Certifications in FinOps or cloud financial management are a plus.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud consumption, spending patterns, usage trends, and cost drivers across cloud environments.
• Monitor and manage cloud expenditure across services, accounts, subscriptions, projects, and business units.
• Develop and maintain cloud cost dashboards, reports, forecasts, and financial models.
• Establish cost-allocation and chargeback/showback methodologies across departments and teams.
• Track cloud budgets, spending limits, forecasts, and actual expenditure.
• Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary cloud costs without compromising performance or reliability.
• Analyze compute, storage, database, networking, and other cloud-service costs.
• Monitor resource utilization and identify underutilized, idle, oversized, or unnecessary resources.
• Recommend rightsizing, scheduling, scaling, reserved-capacity, savings-plan, and other optimization strategies.
• Evaluate cloud pricing models and assess their financial impact on business operations.
• Support cloud budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, and long-term cost projections.
• Develop accurate cost forecasts based on historical usage, business growth, and planned technology initiatives.
• Investigate significant cost variances and provide explanations and corrective recommendations.
• Partner with Engineering and DevOps teams to integrate cost awareness into cloud architecture and development practices.
• Collaborate with IT and Cloud teams to establish cloud cost-management standards and governance processes.
• Support the implementation of FinOps practices throughout the cloud lifecycle.
• Monitor cloud spending against approved budgets and elevate significant deviations when appropriate.
• Establish and monitor cloud cost KPIs, efficiency metrics, and optimization targets.
• Analyze unit economics such as cost per customer, transaction, application, workload, or business service.
• Support business cases and financial assessments for new cloud services, migrations, and technology investments.
• Evaluate the financial impact of cloud migration, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Work with Procurement teams to review cloud contracts, pricing arrangements, discounts, and vendor commitments.
• Analyze billing statements and reconcile cloud invoices with internal financial records.
• Identify billing anomalies, unexpected charges, duplicate costs, and potential billing errors.
• Develop cost-optimization recommendations and track realized savings.
• Maintain documentation of cloud-cost policies, allocation models, governance standards, and optimization procedures.
• Provide financial insights to technology leaders and senior management for cloud investment decisions.
• Promote cost accountability and FinOps awareness across engineering, IT, finance, and business teams.
• Continuously improve cloud cost-management processes, reporting accuracy, automation, and financial visibility.

Skills

FinOps fundamentals

Cloud cost optimization

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial modeling

Analytics & reporting

Excel

SQL

Python (basics)

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or IT

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Excel

SQL

Python

Job description

New Blue Diamond Contracting & General Maintenance LLC - Abu Dhabi is seeking a Mid-Level to Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst to optimize cloud spending and improve financial visibility. The role collaborates with Finance, IT, Engineering, Procurement, and business teams to monitor usage and drive cost-efficiency across cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will manage cost dashboards, forecasts, and models, translate usage into business insights, and contribute to governance and optimization