FinOps Specialist

We are seeking on behalf of our client, a leading payment company, a highly experienced and detail-oriented FinOps Specialist to drive cloud cost efficiency and financial accountability across the organisation's technology landscape. The role encompasses owning cost optimisation strategy, cloud financial reporting, budget visibility, and cross-functional governance, ensuring scalable, controlled, and transparent technology spend within a fast-paced, regulated payments environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage cloud cost visibility, allocation, forecasting, and optimisation across products, platforms, and environments.

• Monitor cloud consumption trends, identify cost anomalies, and highlight optimisation opportunities across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services.

• Support the definition and enforcement of tagging standards, cost allocation models, and budget visibility controls.

• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Finance teams to improve cloud efficiency while maintaining performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Execute cost optimisation initiatives such as rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, storage lifecycle improvements, and cleanup of underutilised resources.

• Prepare regular reporting on cloud spend, forecast trends, realised savings, and financial risks.

• Support budgeting and planning cycles by providing usage analysis, spend projections, and variance insights.

• Contribute to reporting automation and improvement of FinOps processes, controls, and governance practices.

• Help promote cost-aware engineering practices through clear reporting, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Maintain traceability and supporting documentation for cloud financial controls, allocation logic, and reporting methodologies.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years in FinOps, cloud cost management, infrastructure operations, or technology finance.

• Strong experience managing and optimising cloud spend in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.

• Solid understanding of cloud pricing models and infrastructure cost drivers across compute, storage, networking, databases, and containerised platforms.

• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cloud cost reporting.

• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management tools and reporting dashboards.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify inefficiencies, cost drivers, and optimisation opportunities.

• Good understanding of cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and platform usage patterns.

• Ability to work closely with Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Finance stakeholders.

• Strong communication and reporting skills, with the ability to translate technical consumption into clear financial insight.

• Familiarity with tagging strategies, cost allocation practices, and cloud governance controls.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent preferred.