FinOps Specialist

About the Role

FinOps Specialist

Key Responsibilities

Cost Reporting & Transparency

• Prepare detailed, accurate monthly cost reports for customer environments across multiple Azure / AWS subscriptions.
• Work with our finance team to continually improve cost and revenue control and invoicing and cross-charging processes.
• Provide a detailed breakdown of costs across various buckets such as Azure cloud, Databricks, Elastic Cloud, Grafana.
• Attribute cloud costs to revenue streams and highlight variances for actionable insights.
• Provide cost forecasts, trend analysis, and recommendations to leadership and finance teams.

Cloud Cost Optimization

• Analyze

  Azure

  and

  AWS

  consumption across ~50 client banks, identifying cost drivers and optimization opportunities.
• Implement cloud cost allocation/tagging models per bank, product, or environment.
• Recommend and implement optimization levers such as reserved instances, autoscaling, storage tiering, and savings plans.
• Optimize spend on

  Grafana (observability costs, ingestion/storage policies)

  ,

  Databricks (cluster utilization, job scheduling, storage tiers)

  , and

  Power BI (dataset refreshes, capacity planning, licensing models)

  .
• Build dashboards and alerts for spend anomalies, budget thresholds, and efficiency KPIs.

Vendor & Contracting Engagement

• Support negotiations with cloud vendors (Microsoft/Azure, AWS) and platform providers (Grafana, Databricks) for pricing, credits, and enterprise agreements.
• Support product and engineering teams in modelling cloud, infrastructure and other third party costs associated with their solutions to support technical decision making and market pricing of products and services.
• Identify creative contracting and licensing models to reduce overall infrastructure spend.
• Keep up to date with evolving Azure/AWS pricing models, discounts, and incentives.

FinOps Practice & Governance

• Promote cost-awareness and FinOps best practices across engineering, DevOps, and finance teams.
• Define and track KPIs for cost efficiency, ROI, and operational savings.
• Ensure compliance with financial controls, cloud governance policies, and reporting standards.
• Partner with DevOps/Engineering to embed cost-conscious practices in design and deployment decisions.

Qualifications & Skills

• 36 years of experience in cloud financial management, FinOps, or cloud operations (

  Azure required

  , AWS exposure preferred).
• Prior experience in a relevant finance or procurement function.
• Strong understanding of

  Azure and AWS services, pricing models, and billing structures

  .
• Hands-on experience implementing FinOps frameworks including cost allocation, optimization, and forecasting.
• Hands-on experience in optimizing costs on

  Grafana, Databricks, and Power BI

  .
• Analytical skills with experience in

  Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer, and BI/reporting tools

  .
• Fluency in the financial impacts of technology including SaaS, Cloud Native software, Security, Compliance and Artificial Intelligence
• Ability to translate complex technical spend into business and financial insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills – able to work with engineers, finance, and executives.
• (Preferred) Experience in

  SaaS or financial services hosting environments

  .

Why Join Us?

• Play a pivotal role in scaling a

  Banking SaaS platform

  across 50+ banks.
• Drive measurable impact at the intersection of technology, finance, and operations.
• Work with cutting-edge platforms (

  Azure, AWS, Grafana, Databricks, Power BI

  ) to maximize efficiency.
• Be part of a growing company where

  cloud efficiency directly fuels business growth

  .