Senior FinOps Analyst

skipton; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus scheme

Annual leave allowance

Pension contribution

Staff mortgages

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Wellbeing app

Volunteer opportunities

Cycle-to-work scheme

Discounted gym memberships

Home & Tech voucher

Job summary

Skipton is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to establish and embed FinOps practices across its technology estate. You will create governance, reporting, processes and insights to drive better technology investment decisions, with cloud spend transparency and accountability.

You'll be the subject matter expert for FinOps, helping the organisation understand where technology money is spent, why it's spent, and how to maximise value from every pound invested.

Qualifications

• Proven FinOps or similar role experience with Azure or multi-cloud.
• Strong FinOps principles knowledge: cost optimisation, forecasting, governance.
• Strong financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting skills.
• Experience collaborating with Technology, Finance and Procurement with stakeholder management.
• Strong analytical and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead Skipton's FinOps capability, including governance, processes and reporting standards.
• Drive cloud cost transparency across Microsoft Azure, providing clear insight into spend, usage trends and cost drivers.
• Develop showback/chargeback models and embed financial accountability across technology teams.
• Partner with Technology, Finance, Procurement and Architecture teams to integrate FinOps best practice into decision-making.
• Identify and deliver cloud cost optimisation opportunities while balancing performance, resilience and business value.
• Develop forecasting, budgeting and financial models to improve cost predictability and support investment decisions.
• Create cloud reporting, dashboards and KPIs, leading financial reviews and providing recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Azure

Financial governance

Forecasting & budgeting

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Communication skills

Tools

IBM Apptio

Cloudability

Job description

Hours: Working hours - Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm Contract type - permanent Salary: £50,850 Per Annum Closing Date: Sun, 27 Sept 2026

As our Senior FinOps Analyst, you'll be responsible for establishing and embedding FinOps practices across Skipton's technology estate. You'll create the governance, reporting, processes and financial insights that enable better technology investment decisions, whilst ensuring cloud spend is transparent, accountable and aligned to business outcomes. This is more than a reporting role. You'll be the subject matter expert for FinOps, helping the organisation understand where technology money is being spent, why it is being spent, and how we can maximise value from every pound invested. At Skipton, we're founded on fairness. We exist to do right by our members - and we believe that starts with doing right by our people. So whoever you are and whatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.

What You'll Do

Every day at Skipton is innovation day. Join our Technology team and you ' ll discover that we ' re constantly focused on real challenges as we build the tools that get things done for our members - quicker than you imagine.

• Establish and lead Skipton's FinOps capability, including governance, processes and reporting standards.
• Drive cloud cost transparency across Microsoft Azure, providing clear insight into spend, usage trends and cost drivers.
• Develop showback/chargeback models and embed financial accountability across technology teams.
• Partner with Technology, Finance, Procurement and Architecture teams to integrate FinOps best practice into decision-making.
• Identify and deliver cloud cost optimisation opportunities while balancing performance, resilience and business value.
• Develop forecasting, budgeting and financial models to improve cost predictability and support investment decisions.
• Create cloud reporting, dashboards and KPIs, leading financial reviews and providing recommendations to senior stakeholders.

We work in a hybrid way, balancing flexibility with collaboration. For this role, you'll typically spend three days a week in our Skipton office, with the remaining two days working from home.

What You'll Need

We're looking for an experienced analyst with a passion for technology financial management, data-driven decision making and cloud cost optimisation. You'll be comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and able to translate complex financial and consumption data into clear, actionable business insight.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in a FinOps, Cloud Financial Management or similar role and experience implementing FinOps practices within Azure or multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of FinOps principles, including cost optimisation, forecasting, governance and financial accountability.
• Strong financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting skills with the ability to translate data into business outcomes.
• Experience working collaboratively with Technology, Finance and Procurement teams with excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills with a high attention to detail.

Desirable

• FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent certification with experience using cloud cost management tools such as IBM Apptio or Cloudability.
• Knowledge of Technology Business Management (TBM) principles and experience within Financial Services or another regulated industry.
• Understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure and technology architecture.

What's In It For You

Your work matters. And the way we reward you matters, too. At Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at Currys, and IKEA

We 're here to make life better for our members.

About Skipton .

Our story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you ' ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth. We help over a million members put down roots, save for what matters, and feel good about their money. As a mutual, they own us, so everything we do is for them.

You'll feel that same fairness and purpose in how all 2,500 of our colleagues work together, too. It all means that life at Skipton is more exciting than you imagine.

What it's like to work here

Life at Skipton

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