Hastings Direct
Cloud FinOps Analyst
Job Description
Salary: £47,000 - 86,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong financial analysis skills, including the ability to develop and present analysis of client spend and make related recommendations.
- Passion for cloud technology and the ability to explain its value in both technical and financial terms.
- Persistence, tenacity, and the ability to navigate challenging business situations while identifying opportunities to drive value.
- Fundamental understanding of a cloud platform and its usage and cost dynamics; knowledge of Azure, Snowflake, Kubecost, and KQL is a plus.
- Monitor and analyse cloud infrastructure costs, identify trends, and provide insights and recommendations to optimize costs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and track cost-saving strategies, including rightsizing instances, using reserved instances, and identifying other optimization opportunities.
- Track cloud resource usage, identify overutilization or waste, and implement measures to improve resource efficiency.
- Assist in developing and managing cloud infrastructure budgets, tracking actual costs against budgets, and providing regular reports to stakeholders.
- Generate timely and accurate financial reports on cloud costs, including cost allocation and chargeback, to support decision-making.
- Produce cloud usage and cost insights, implement governance and control measures, and help track optimization initiatives.
- Azure
- Cloud
- Support
- Snowflake
- DevOps
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We are a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans for the UK market. Our CIO team has invested in data and technology capabilities and works on projects to strengthen our digital presence and customer engagement. We are seeking a full-time Cloud FinOps Analyst to join our Change and Governance FinOps team in Bexhill or Leicester. We foster a 4Cs culture focused on colleagues, customers, company, and community, and offer support, training, development, recognition, and opportunities to put ideas into practice. Benefits include flexible hybrid working, an annual performance bonus, life assurance, income protection, matched pension contributions, financial and mental wellbeing support, 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, and other health, travel, technology, and social benefits. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from suitably skilled people. We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and can provide reasonable adjustments. Our referencing process includes credit and criminal record checks. The job posting end date is 27 September 2026.
last updated 39 week of 2026
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Bexhill-on-Sea
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£45,000
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This salary is 48% above the UK median for Analysts (£45,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks