Cloud FinOps Analyst — Azure Cost Optimisation

FinOps Weekly; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Health and wellbeing

Share purchase plan

Job summary

Computershare Edinburgh is seeking a Cloud FinOps Analyst to join the team in a hybrid role. The analyst will manage cloud spend, focusing on Azure, and work with finance, engineering and operations to optimise costs and drive budgeting and forecasting processes.

The role requires strong data analysis, reporting skills, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to stakeholders. Prior FinOps experience in a complex organisation is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Proven FinOps experience in a cloud environment.
• Experience with cost management and optimization of cloud resources.
• Ability to analyse usage data and generate actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Track and report cloud spend across platforms with usage summaries and variance analysis.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities from usage patterns and support optimisation efforts.
• Contribute to FinOps processes aligned with ITSM and change management.
• Prepare historical spend reports and usage trend analysis for budgeting and forecasting.
• Monitor policy compliance related to cloud usage and cost control.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Azure

PowerBI

FinOps framework

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Microsoft Azure

PowerBI

Job description

Computershare Edinburgh is seeking a Cloud FinOps Analyst to join the team in a hybrid role. The analyst will manage cloud spend, focusing on Azure, and work with finance, engineering and operations to optimise costs and drive budgeting and forecasting processes.

The role requires strong data analysis, reporting skills, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to stakeholders. Prior FinOps experience in a complex organisation is highly valued.