FinOpsSpecialist

We are seeking on behalf of our client, a leading payment company, a highly experienced and detail-oriented FinOps Specialist to drive cloud cost efficiency and financial accountability across the organisation's technology landscape. The role encompasses owning cost optimisation strategy, cloud financial reporting, budget visibility, and cross-functional governance, ensuring scalable, controlled, and transparent technology spend within a fast-paced, regulated payments environment. ### Responsibilities: * Manage cloud cost visibility, allocation, forecasting, and optimisation across products, platforms, and environments. * Monitor cloud consumption trends, identify cost anomalies, and highlight optimisation opportunities across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services. * Support the definition and enforcement of tagging standards, cost allocation models, and budget visibility controls. * Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Finance teams to improve cloud efficiency while maintaining performance, scalability, and reliability. * Execute cost optimisation initiatives such as rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, storage lifecycle improvements, and cleanup of underutilised resources. * Prepare regular reporting on cloud spend, forecast trends, realised savings, and financial risks. * Support budgeting and planning cycles by providing usage analysis, spend projections, and variance insights. * Contribute to reporting automation and improvement of FinOps processes, controls, and governance practices. * Help promote cost-aware engineering practices through clear reporting, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. * Maintain traceability and supporting documentation for cloud financial controls, allocation logic, and reporting methodologies. ### Qualifications & Skills: * 5+ years in FinOps, cloud cost management, infrastructure operations, or technology finance. * Strong experience managing and optimising cloud spend in AWS, Azure