FinOps Engineer

FinOps Engineer - Centurion

Salary: R85 000 - R105 000 CTC per month
Contract: 6 Month contract
Hybrid: 2 to 3 days a week on-site

Our client is looking for a FinOps Operational Analyst – AWS & Azure to join their team in Centurion. This is a hands-on six-month contract opportunity focused on improving cloud-cost visibility, allocation, reporting, forecasting, optimisation and operational processes across AWS and Microsoft Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain accurate AWS and Azure cloud-cost reporting and dashboards.
• Improve cost visibility across business units, products, applications, environments and cost centres.
• Strengthen tagging, ownership mapping, cost allocation, showback and chargeback processes.
• Analyse cloud billing and usage data to identify trends, anomalies and cost drivers.
• Produce recurring dashboards, variance reports, forecasts and optimisation views.
• Support cloud recovery calculations, allocation outputs and financial reporting processes.
• Maintain data-quality controls for untagged, misallocated, idle, orphaned or anomalous resources.
• Track and support rightsizing, scheduling, cleanup and licensing optimisation initiatives.
• Support Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Azure Reservations and Azure Hybrid Benefit.
• Develop queries, scripts, dashboards, alerts and lightweight automation to reduce manual effort.
• Maintain an optimisation backlog with accountable owners, target dates and realised savings.
• Provide operational FinOps support to Finance, Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Procurement and business stakeholders.
• Develop practical FinOps procedures, runbooks, knowledge material and self-service guidance.
• Support responsible cloud consumption across a federated enterprise environment.

Minimum Requirements:

• 4–7+ years’ relevant experience across FinOps operations, cloud-cost management, IT financial management, data analytics, finance operations, cloud operations or technology cost management.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure billing and cost-management capabilities.
• Practical understanding of AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor.
• Experience with tagging, allocation, showback, chargeback, budgets and anomaly management.
• Experience producing cloud-cost dashboards, forecasts, variance analysis and actionable reporting.
• Understanding of rightsizing, commitment management and cloud-cost optimisation.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen across budgets, forecasts, allocation, accruals, recoveries or unit economics.
• Capability with tools such as Power BI, Advanced Excel, SQL, Python, PowerShell, APIs or cloud-native reporting services.
• Ability to interpret complex cloud data and translate it into clear business insight and practical action.
• Experience working across Engineering, Finance, Product, Architecture, Procurement and business teams.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner certification, or a commitment to obtain it within an agreed period.

Nice to Have:

• MagicOrange or comparable IT financial-management platform experience.
• Experience with Snowflake, JDE, ServiceNow, Datadog or CMDB integrations.
• Financial-services, regulated-industry, governance or audit experience.
• Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code or cloud automation experience.
• AWS, Azure, Power BI, data analytics or advanced FinOps certifications.
• Experience supporting Marketplace governance, cloud licensing or third-party vendor allocation.

How You Work:

• Analytical, accurate and highly detail-oriented.
• Hands-on, execution-led and comfortable working with complex cloud data.
• Commercially aware and able to connect technical consumption to financial outcomes.
• Collaborative and service-oriented in a federated enterprise environment.
• Process-minded, with a focus on repeatability, documentation and operational resilience.
• Able to communicate technical and financial concepts clearly.
• Curious, proactive and committed to continuous improvement.

Please note: If you do not hear back from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.