Business Analyst - 12 Month FTC

Electronic Arts (EA); Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company is seeking an Infrastructure Cost Analyst in Guildford. This hybrid role involves partnering with Finance and Engineering to deliver financial insights from infrastructure costs, forecasting trends, and leveraging data visualization tools. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of cloud costs and holds a degree in a relevant field, alongside 3+ years of related experience.

Qualifications

• Familiar with infrastructure costs and workload usage patterns on cloud.
• Experience in data visualization software packages.
• Familiarity with SQL and querying complex data sets.

Responsibilities

• Translate technical usage into financial insights.
• Report infrastructure spend trends to partners.
• Forecast costs and analyze data for cost modelling.

Skills

Infrastructure cost analysis

Data visualization

SQL proficiency

Financial insights

Cloud computing knowledge

Education

B.A./B.S. in STEM or related field

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Job description

At EA, we are looking for an Infrastructure Cost Analyst to support forecasting, cost modelling, allocations, chargebacks, and deliver cost insights that ensure our game launches and live services. You will report to the Director of Infrastructure Cost Management.

Responsibilities

• You will Partner with Finance and Engineering to translate technical usage into financial insights.
• You will, report infrastructure spend trends to partners and leadership.
• Forecast costs, build queries, and analyze data to support cost modelling, allocations, chargebacks, and cost driver insights.
• Provide CSP and SaaS vendor analytics to support negotiations and sourcing strategies.
• Apply FinOps practices to improve cost visibility, accountability, and efficiency.
• Support decision-making by modelling scenarios and delivering insights into complex problems.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Infrastructure costs, and workload usage /consumption patterns on cloud including an understanding of cloud providers, platforms and configurations (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with data visualization software packages, e.g., Looker, Power BI, Tableau
• Familiarity with SQL and similar database tools for querying complex data sets.
• A B.A./B.S. in STEM, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or Engineering Sciences
• 3+ years of experience in related fields

This is a hybrid role, with 3 days per week working from our office in Guildford