FinOps Engineer
CGI
4–8 years
Hyderabad
Cloud Financial Operations / Technology
AWS + Azure cost management + FinOps + Excel / Power BI + scripting
Role overview
The FinOps Engineer drives cloud financial visibility, cost governance and optimisation across technology workloads. The role bridges Engineering, Cloud/Platform, Finance and operational leadership to improve budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, consumption reporting and cloud economics. It combines financial 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.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate technology financial planning, budgeting and forecasting for cloud and IT services.
- Analyse financial performance, invoices and contracts to identify cost optimisation and efficiency opportunities.
- Partner with IT, Cloud and Platform teams to implement cloud cost management and governance strategies.
- Maintain cost and forecast models with strong accuracy, traceability and actionable insight.
- Model the financial 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 financial controls, governance processes and evidence aligned with organisational policies.
- Present findings to operational leaders and senior management, translating cloud consumption into business and financial impact.
Capability Expected experience
FinOps / cloud cost Cloud financial management, cost allocation, optimisation and governance.
Cloud platforms Practical understanding of AWS and/or Azure billing and cost management capabilities.
Financial analysis Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial 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.
Governance Tagging, cost ownership, financial controls, policy compliance and auditability.
Experience
- Essential: 4+ years of experience across IT finance, FinOps, cloud operations, technology cost management or related functions.
- Essential: Experience working in an IT environment and collaborating with engineering, operational and finance stakeholders.
- Essential: Strong understanding of financial principles, cost management and financial 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.
- Good 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 Finance, Economics, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related discipline.
- Bridge technical and financial perspectives without losing sight of business outcomes.
- Take ownership of cost transparency, forecast accuracy and optimisation actions.
- Communicate clearly with engineering, Finance, Procurement and senior stakeholders.
- Use data and evidence to prioritise optimisation opportunities.
- Promote continuous improvement in governance, automation and cloud economics.
Must have Strong advantage
AWS / Azure cost management FinOps Framework knowledge
Excel / financial modelling Power BI
Budgeting & forecasting Chargeback / showback
Cloud cost analysis Rightsizing / commitments
Tagging & governance Python / PowerShell automation
Reporting & variance analysis FinOps certification
Recommended candidate profile
An effective candidate should sit comfortably between Finance 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.
Reference basis
The role profile below is a consolidated hiring oriented interpretation of public Centrica material and related vacancy sources. It preserves recurring terminology where the source supports it and flags third party evidence where applicable.
- Centrica Energy – IT FinOps Analyst: https://dk.linkedin.com/jobs/view/it finops analyst at centrica energy 3737216328
- Supporting cloud FinOps role patterns used for the engineering oriented profile: https://in.linkedin.com/jobs/view/finops engineer azure aws at zensar technologies 4435054731
Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
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