SUMMARY:
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.
POSITION INFO:
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
