FinOps Consultant

You will lead and advise clients on establishing, scaling, and embedding cloud financial management and value optimisation practices.

As a Principal FinOps Consultant, you will define enterprise FinOps strategies, operating models, and optimisation roadmaps, working across cloud platforms, delivery teams, finance functions, and executive stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Define and lead enterprise FinOps strategies across public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud)
• Advise senior technology, finance, and business stakeholders on cloud cost governance and value optimisation
• Design and implement FinOps operating models, including chargeback/showback, budgeting, forecasting, and cost allocation
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to provide transparency into cloud spend, efficiency, and business value
• Lead optimisation initiatives including rightsizing, rate optimisation, commitment management, and workload efficiency
• Embed cost-aware practices into architecture, platform, and engineering design decisions
• Support large-scale cloud migrations and modernisation programmes from a financial and value perspective

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Strong experience across cloud, financial management, technology consulting, or related disciplines
• Strong practical experience applying FinOps principles at enterprise scale
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and optimisation
• Experience operating across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage confidently with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred/Desirable Experience:

• Experience of Commercial FinOps vendors/platforms
• FinOps Foundation certifications (Practitioner or Professional)
• Experience aligning cloud spend to business value and investment decision-making
• Familiarity with FinOps tooling ecosystems and native cloud cost management services
• Experience working within regulated or complex enterprise environments
• Experience with Technology Business Management (TBM) frameworks
• Remediation strategies, including the use of automation to prevent, detect, and correct cost inefficiencies and policy breaches

Personal Attributes:

• Highly analytical and structured problem-solver
• Able to translate complex financial and technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance
• Strong collaborator who thrives in multidisciplinary environments
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving and ambiguous transformation contexts
• Committed to high standards of quality, integrity, and professionalism