About the position
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
If you are ready for the next exciting step in your career, and would like to apply, please send us your updated CV to review
Desired Skills:
- Cloud Financial management
- AWS Cost management
- AWS Budgets
- communication skills.
- problem solver
- Presentation Skills
