Cloud Financial Analyst / Cloud Financial Consultant / Cloud Financial Specialist

Role Description

These roles help organisations understand, forecast, and manage cloud spending. They work with Finance, Engineering, and Procurement to allocate costs to the teams and services that incur them, investigate unexpected charges, and find savings while meeting performance and reliability requirements.

The Cloud Financial Analyst reconciles billing data, explains differences between actual and forecast spend, and tracks unit costs such as cloud cost per transaction. The Cloud Financial Consultant assesses cloud spending practices, compares pricing and purchasing options, and recommends changes based on usage patterns and financial trade-offs. The Cloud Financial Specialist maintains cost allocation rules, configures budget alerts, and works with engineering teams to verify savings from resizing resources, removing idle capacity, or changing purchasing commitments.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in cloud financial management (FinOps), technology cost analysis, or cloud cost optimisation relevant to the position.
• Familiarity with billing and pricing on at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets for reconciling charges, analysing variances, and modelling costs. SQL or dashboarding skills are an advantage.
• For analyst roles, experience using billing exports and usage data to allocate costs, explain spending trends, and build forecasts.
• For consulting roles, experience comparing on-demand and commitment-based pricing, quantifying savings, and explaining the risk of unused commitments.
• For specialist roles, experience maintaining resource tags and cost allocation rules, investigating spending alerts, and measuring realised savings against a baseline.
• Ability to explain cost drivers and trade-offs clearly to finance and engineering teams and document assumptions behind recommendations.