Job highlights

- 4+ years in IT finance or FinOps with expertise in AWS/Azure cost management, financial modelling, and automation using Python/PowerShell
- Coordinate cloud financial planning, analyze invoices for cost optimization, implement governance strategies, develop cost models and dashboards, automate cost control tasks, and present findings to senior management

Job Summary Role overview: The FinOps Engineer drives cloud ficial visibility, cost goverce and optimisation across technology workloads. The role bridges Engineering, Cloud/Platform, Fice and operational leadership to improve budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, consumption reporting and cloud economics. It combines ficial analysis with practical cloud cost knowledge and automation.

Note: This is a reconstructed, hiring oriented role profile. The closest direct Centrica source located publicly is an IT FinOps Analyst role in Centrica Energy; engineering oriented cloud cost practices have been added only where consistent with that source and clearly framed as the target engineer profile.

Responsibilities

- Coordinate technology ficial planning, budgeting and forecasting for cloud and IT services.
- Analyse ficial performance, invoices and contracts to identify cost optimisation and efficiency opportunities.
- Partner with IT, Cloud and Platform teams to implement cloud cost management and goverce strategies.
- Maintain cost and forecast models with strong accuracy, traceability and actionable insight.
- Model the ficial impact of technology decisions, architecture changes, migrations and consumption trends.
- Build or maintain cost allocation, chargeback and showback models for products, services, business units or cost centres.
- Develop recurring reports and dashboards covering spend, variance, forecast, trends, anomalies and optimisation opportunities.
- Support tagging,



account/subscription hierarchy and ownership standards to improve cost attribution and accountability.
- Identify rightsizing, idle resource, scheduling and commitment opportunities across AWS and Azure where applicable.
- Support cloud pricing analysis, savings plans / reservations / equivalent commitments and consumption optimisation decisions.
- Automate repetitive cost control, reporting or anomaly detection tasks using scripting, APIs or cloud native tooling.
- Develop and implement fical controls, goverce processes and evidence aligned with organisational policies.
- Present findings to operational leaders and senior management, translating cloud consumption into business and fical impact.

Required technical skills

- FinOps / cloud cost Cloud ficial management, cost allocation, optimisation and goverce.
- Cloud platforms Practical understanding of AWS and/or Azure billing and cost management capabilities.
- Ficial analysis Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, ficial modelling and invoice/contract analysis.
- Reporting Excel plus Power BI, native cloud dashboards or equivalent reporting tools.
- Automation Python, PowerShell, Bash or APIs for repeatable cost management tasks.
- Goverce Tagging, cost ownership, ficial controls, policy compliance and auditability.

Experience

- Essential: 4+ years of experience across IT fice, FinOps, cloud operations, technology cost management or related functions.
- Essential: Experience working in an IT environment and collaborating with engineering, operational and fice stakeholders.
- Essential: Strong understanding of ficial principles,



cost management and ficial modelling.
- Essential: Practical experience analysing cloud spend and identifying cost optimisation opportunities.
- Good to have: Hands on AWS and Azure cost management experience and familiarity with multi cloud environments.
- Positive to have: FinOps Foundation / FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent certification.
- Good to have: Scripting and automation for cost reporting, budget alerts, anomaly detection or resource optimisation.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Fice, Economics, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related discipline.

Behavioural competencies

- Bridge technical and ficial perspectives without losing sight of business outcomes.
- Take ownership of cost transparency, forecast accuracy and optimisation actions.
- Communicate clearly with engineering, Fice, Procurement and senior stakeholders.
- Use data and evidence to prioritise optimisation opportunities.
- Promote continuous improvement in goverce, automation and cloud economics.

Suggested Hyderabad hiring stack

- Must have Strong advantage
- AWS / Azure cost management FinOps Framework knowledge
- Excel / ficial modelling Power BI
- Budgeting & forecasting
- Chargeback / showback
- Cloud cost analysis
- Rightsizing / commitments
- Tagging & gouvernce
- Python / PowerShell automation
- Reporting & variance analysis
- FinOps certification

Recommended candidate profile An effective candidate should sit comfortably between Fice and Engineering. Strong candidates will be able to explain a material cloud spend movement, trace it to consumption or business drivers, recommend an optimisation action, quantify the benefit and establish a repeatable control or dashboard to prevent recurrence.

Skills

- Release Management
- Transition management
- finOps
- Stakeholder management

📌 FinOps Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 CGI
📍 Hyderabad