FinOps Analyst

QE Services IT Recruitment; Bellville; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 620,000; Part time

Job summary

QE Services IT Recruitment is seeking a FinOps Analyst on contract to join a Cape Town team. The role focuses on cloud cost visibility, budgeting, forecasting and governance in a cloud-first environment.

You will develop cost dashboards, analyse AWS spend, support budgeting and pricing decisions, and drive optimisation opportunities across workloads and business units.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or diploma in IT, Finance, Business, Data Analytics or related field.
• Substantial experience in IT infrastructure, cloud cost management or data analytics.
• Experience with AWS billing/cost management and cloud pricing analysis.
• Ability to interpret cloud cost data and translate into business insights.
• Familiarity with governance, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve AWS cost visibility, reporting and analysis.
• Produce cloud cost dashboards and management reports with cost trends and variances.
• Analyse cloud spend across accounts, workloads and business units.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and cost estimates for cloud projects.
• Define tagging standards and cost allocation rules.
• Identify wastage and optimisation opportunities and track savings.
• Support governance, alerts, thresholds and escalation processes.
• Facilitate cost review sessions with stakeholders across teams.
• Automate recurring cost reports and anomaly reporting where possible.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Dashboard development

Stakeholder engagement

Cost analytics

Financial forecasting

Education

Undergraduate degree in IT/Finance/Analytics

Tools

AWS

Power BI

Excel

SQL

Job description

My client based in Tygervalley, Cape Town is currently looking for a FinOps Analyst to join their team on a contract basis.

IT / FINANCE

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve AWS cloud cost visibility, reporting and analysis.
• Produce cloud cost dashboards and management reports, including cost trends, consumption patterns, budget variances and anomalies.
• Analyse cloud spend across accounts, workloads, applications, environments, services, cost centres and business units.
• Support annual, quarterly and monthly cloud budgeting and forecasting.
• Analyse actual spend against budget and forecast and identify key cost drivers.
• Support cost estimates and financial assessments for cloud migration, workload onboarding, modernisation and architecture changes.
• Define and monitor AWS tagging standards, cost allocation rules and ownership structures.
• Identify cloud wastage, idle, oversized, duplicated and underutilised resources and recommend optimisation opportunities.
• Support rightsizing, scheduling, storage, backup, data-transfer and managed-service cost optimisation.
• Analyse and support AWS Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and Spot usage.
• Monitor commitment utilisation and support purchase, renewal and adjustment decisions.
• Support FinOps governance, policies, budget alerts, anomaly thresholds and escalation processes.
• Facilitate regular cost review sessions with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Architecture and Business stakeholders.
• Promote cost-conscious engineering practices while considering performance, security, resilience and business requirements.
• Use AWS-native tools such as Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Cost and Usage Reports, Cost Categories, Cost Anomaly Detection and Compute Optimizer.
• Automate recurring cost reports, alerts and exception reporting where possible.
• Track optimisation initiatives and validate realised savings and avoided costs.
• Support cloud migration through cost baselines, cost tracking and post-migration cost comparisons.

Qualifications & Experience

• Relevant undergraduate degree, diploma or certification in Information Technology, Finance, Business, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing or a related field.
• Substantial experience in IT infrastructure, cloud operations, cloud cost management, IT finance, technology business management, vendor management or data/reporting analytics.
• Practical experience with AWS cloud services and AWS billing/cost management.
• Working knowledge of cloud pricing, cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Experience developing dashboards, management reports, cost models or financial analysis using tools such as Power BI, Excel, SQL or similar.
• Ability to interpret AWS billing and usage data and translate it into actionable business and technical insights.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure cost drivers, including compute, storage, databases, networking, backup, monitoring, security and managed services.
• Familiarity with cloud governance, infrastructure operations, change management, architecture review and service management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Architecture and Business/Application teams.
• Preferred: FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional and/or relevant AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect.

Competencies

• Cloud Financial Management / FinOps
• Strong AWS cost management knowledge
• Budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis
• Cost allocation, tagging and reporting
• Cloud cost optimisation and governance
• Infrastructure and cloud operations knowledge
• Data analysis and dashboard development
• Ability to translate technical cost data into clear business insights

Desired Skills

• Cloud Financial management
• AWS Cost management
• AWS Budgets
• communication skills.
• problem solver
• Presentation Skills