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Cloud FinOps Analyst

EQPlus

  • Undisclosed
  • Contract Senior position
  • Cape Town Region
  • Posted 07 Sep 2026 by EQPlus
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2644788
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Cloud FinOps Analyst
Cape Town | Hybrid | Contract

This role will support proactive AWS FinOps and cloud financial management, improving cost visibility, forecasting, allocation, governance, optimisation and accountability.

How you will contribute:

  • Analyse and report on AWS cloud spend, consumption, trends, variances, anomalies and cost drivers across accounts, workloads, applications and environments
  • Support cloud budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and cost impact assessments, including migration, architecture and workload changes
  • Manage AWS cost allocation and tagging, improving attribution of spend to applications, owners, business units, projects and cost centres
  • Identify and support AWS cost optimisation, including rightsizing, underutilised resources, non-production scheduling, storage, networking, backup and managed services
  • Analyse Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and Spot usage, monitoring commitments and supporting commercial optimisation decisions
  • Support FinOps governance, including budgets, alerts, anomaly detection, cost exceptions, policies and cost-aware cloud operations
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Architecture and Business/Application teams to drive cost accountability and informed decisions
  • Use AWS cost management and reporting tools for analysis and reporting

Key Requirements:

  • Relevant qualification in IT, Finance, Business, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing or related field
  • Substantial experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, cloud operations, IT infrastructure, IT finance, TBM or related analytics
  • Practical AWS cloud and billing/cost management experience
  • Strong understanding of cloud pricing, cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting and optimisation
  • Experience with AWS cost reporting and data analysis, including Power BI, Excel, SQL or similar
  • Understanding of AWS cost drivers across compute, storage, databases, networking, backup and managed services
  • Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills
  • FinOps/AWS certification advantageous

Desired Skills:

  • FinOps
  • AWS
  • Cloud Financial Management
  • Cloud Cost Management
  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • AWS Budgets
  • Cost Allocation & Tagging
  • Cloud Cost Optimisation
  • Power BI
  • Cloud Governance

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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EQPlus is a Specialist IT & Financial Recruitment Consultancy with a team of highly experienced staff and shareholders, representative of South Africa's unique diversity. EQPlus is a Specialist Resourcing Services organization, specialising in the provision of contracting staff, permanent staff as well as Executive Search. We do IT your way. EQPlus is a leading provider of IT and Financial talent, on all levels of your business Founded in 1999, the dynamic team at EQPlus focusses on the following business units: EQ Resourcing EQPlus is able to supply top quality technical specialists in all technologies e.g. Mobile Technologies, Java, C#, SQL, Oracle, COBOL, Natural – all levels. EQ PLUS ensures that the candidate match the client’s skills requirement and the culture of the organisation. EQ Plus provides a personal service of exceptional value. EQ Professional Services EQPlus is highly experienced in the sourcing of Programme and Project Managers for short and long term positions, both local and internationally. Business Analysts/Business Process skills are also available with experience across multiple leading BA methodologies. EQ Staffing Solutions EQ Staffing solutions is designed to meet your needs, be it Teams, Fixed price or Executive search. Our offering includes bespoke application development skills across all the enterprise development platforms and technologies over the full lifecycle of a project. Why EQPLUS We have a track record of excellent service delivery on small and large scale recruitment projects. •Our team of inspirational bright minds enables us to provide business leadership in our field. •We provide Technology Expertise, using state of the art Recruitment Intellectual Property •We consistently provide quality candidates, at great value for money with passionate service delivery. •We serve clients and candidates spanning the technology and geographic landscape of South Africa. •We are a Total Talent Solution Centre of Excellence and have specialists that focus on the IT Industry. •We provide Executive Search appointments, Independent Contractors and Permanent Appointments including: oArchitects, oBusiness Analysts, oProject Managers, oAnalyst Programmers (Java, C#, PHP, Web Logic, SQL, Cobol, Universe, SAP, Oracle etc.) oNetwork Engineers (up to CCIE level). oMicrosoft Technology experts, oJava Application Development experts and oMobile Development experts. oFinancial Industry Professionals.

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