Cloud FinOps Analyst

Job Description

At abrdn, enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. By combining expertise, insight, and innovative technology, we deliver solutions that empower our clients to achieve their goals. Beyond financial outcomes, we invest responsibly to build a better world.

About the Department

The Cloud Capability Centre, part of abrdn’s Group Technology division, plays a key role in driving cloud adoption and innovation across the organisation. The Centre focuses on creating a robust Azure cloud platform that supports product, project, and operational delivery while fostering a financially responsible cloud adoption approach. Collaborating with teams across abrdn, the Centre ensures cloud-related decisions align with the organisation's technology, business, and governance priorities.

About the Role

As a Cloud FinOps Analyst, you will analyse and report on resource usage in abrdn’s cloud environments, providing actionable insights on trends, cost opportunities, and spend alignment. You will play a vital role in embedding cost optimisation practices across our Azure platform and workloads. Working closely with the Cloud Platform Engineering team and other stakeholders, you will identify opportunities for savings, support the adoption of FinOps practices, and contribute to building automation processes that enhance financial efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop FinOps dashboards and reports to provide insights into workload and platform costs, cost drivers, and FinOps success metrics.

• Analyse workload and platform data to identify usage trends, spikes, and over-configuration.

• Identify cost optimisation opportunities through reservations, rightsizing, and savings plans.

• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure workloads are optimised from the start.

• Conduct operational reviews of workloads to drive the adoption of FinOps practices.

• Monitor cost tagging compliance and tech lifecycle changes to identify risks and opportunities.

• Work with engineering teams to automate FinOps practices across the Azure environment.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Experience, Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of cloud economics, including cost optimisation concepts like rightsizing and forecasting.

• Familiarity with budgets, reservations, savings plans, and tagging strategies to manage costs.

• Experience using tools like Azure Cost Management, Power BI, or AWS Cost Explorer to analyse and report on costs and trends.

• Understanding of FinOps practices and foundations (e.g., FinOps Foundation Practitioner certification).

• Background in analysis with some experience in cloud financial operations (FinOps) across Azure, AWS, or GCP.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At abrdn we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.