Azure FinOps Analyst Full Time

Robert Walters

Azure FinOps Analyst

Salary: National ranging from £51,200 – £70,700 and London from £56,400 – £78,600

Are you interested in joining a team at the forefront of operations, supporting all end users and partners in their day-to-day activities, and managing the FCA’s end user services and associated suppliers?

The team/department

End User Compute provides change and run for a broad range of application and infrastructure services. We work in small cross functional, self-organising and autonomous teams, passionate about delivering value and having fun.

What you will be doing (the role)

The Azure FinOps Analyst sits in the End User Compute (EUC) Product Group and is responsible for monitoring Azure Cloud infrastructure and its usage, seeking to optimize value for the FCA. The role will drive FinOps best practices in the organization through education, standardization, and collaboration. The role will focus on monitoring and control, cost optimization and risk avoidance across the FCA’s Azure estate.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining processes and delivering services in relation to product financial operations, monitoring costs to ensure adherence to standards and optimal configuration
• Proactively controlling costs and avoiding unnecessary and unexpected expenditure through the setting and enforcement of appropriate polices, processes and operational guardrails
• Building dashboards, forecasts and reporting on key metrics required to enable business-based decision making

What you will get from the role

• Opportunity to make a tangible impact on the organisation by shaping and building FinOps culture and best practices as we grow the FCA’s Azure estate
• Participation in a friendly multi-disciplinary team affording exposure to all aspects of Microsoft Cloud technology
• Support for your professional development covering both technical and soft skills

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum

• We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.
• Experience in managing the cost/usage of Cloud infrastructure
• Experience in financial reporting and analysis

Essential

• Knowledge of Azure Cloud concepts
• Role-specific know-how, transferrable skills, elements of core skills and behaviours that are essential to the role, referring to our Capability Framework as a source of information to help you design your criteria
• Proven experience in process optimization and Cloud cost and usage management
• Proficiency in financial modelling, budgeting, and forecasting, preferably using PowerBI
• Knowledge of Azure cloud concepts, Infrastructure as code, Azure Virtual devices, storage, networking, messaging, configuration, performance, and health. Azure account management, IAM, secrets, tagging and cost management, service catalogue and self-service concepts
• Security and compliance controls and tooling used by regulated enterprises, high availability and resiliency concepts for cloud infrastructure and applications
• Knowledge of and ability to make recommendations on FinOps tooling
• Highly analytical, able to take data from several sources and provide insight and analysis, seeking ways to improve upon reporting and data gathering
• Commercial acumen, able to interpret contracts and agreements with 3rd parties, identify opportunities for improvements to contractual terms to ensure best value and long-term relations with suppliers

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole.

If you are interested in this role, please share your CV to either of the following email addresses:

Thank you.

We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of disability or health condition, please email: This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line.