Your Role: FinOps Analyst
A high-impact role for an experienced FinOps analyst who can quickly bring clarity, control and commercial rigour to infrastructure spend.
As a FinOps Analyst at Global, you will sit within the Platform Engineering team and take ownership of cost visibility, optimisation and financial governance across our infrastructure estate. This role will predominantly focus on cloud spend across AWS and Azure, with some GCP, while also looking more broadly at areas such as IoT SIM usage, internet transit overage, and other infrastructure-related costs.
We’re looking for someone battle hardened — a proven practitioner who has done this before, can hit the ground running, and can rapidly identify where spend can be better understood, challenged and optimised. You’ll combine strong technical credibility with clear commercial and financial understanding, helping Global make smarter decisions across engineering, finance and supplier management.
Key Responsibilities
Cost Visibility, Forecasting & Financial Control (40%): Build and own a clear view of infrastructure spend across AWS, Azure, GCP and wider platform services. Establish robust reporting, forecasting, trend analysis and cost allocation, giving stakeholders accurate insight into where money is being spent, why, and where risk or opportunity exists.
Optimisation, Governance & Commercial Challenge (35%): Drive cost optimisation across cloud and infrastructure services, identifying waste, inefficiencies and areas of avoidable spend. Improve governance around tagging, chargeback/show back, anomaly management, commitments, licensing and consumption patterns, while constructively challenging technical and commercial decisions.
Cross-functional Leadership & Influence (25%): Partner with Platform Engineering, Finance, Procurement, architecture, service owners and third parties to embed FinOps ways of working. Influence decisions across infrastructure planning, supplier management and service consumption, ensuring cost, value and performance are considered together.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: You’ll shape how Global manages infrastructure spend across a complex and business-critical technology estate.
Own It: You’ll lead the FinOps agenda, bringing structure, insight and accountability to a capability we are looking to build strongly.
Keep it Simple: You’ll turn complex usage, billing and commercial data into straightforward recommendations that drive action.
Better Together: You’ll work across engineering, finance, procurement and operational teams to improve value across the business.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
Built a trusted baseline view of infrastructure spend across key platforms and services
Introduced clear reporting on budgets, trends, forecasting, anomalies and optimisation opportunities
Identified and started delivering measurable savings and efficiency improvements
Established strong working relationships across Platform Engineering, Finance, Procurement and key stakeholders
Brought greater control and commercial discipline to infrastructure cost decision-making
What You’ll Need
Deep FinOps experience: Proven experience leading FinOps or cloud cost management in a complex technology environment, with strong knowledge of AWS and Azure and exposure to GCP
Commercial and financial acumen: Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, supplier commercials and cost governance
Infrastructure cost expertise: Good understanding of the cost drivers behind cloud, network, platform and operational infrastructure spend
Credibility and influence: Ability to challenge constructively, influence senior stakeholders and work effectively across engineering, finance and procurement
Action-oriented mindset: A pragmatic, hands-on approach with the confidence to spot issues quickly, prioritise effectively and deliver outcomes at pace
Qualifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
FOCP: FinOps Certified Practitioner
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading FinOps or cloud cost management in a complex technology environment
- Strong knowledge of AWS and Azure with exposure to GCP
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, supplier commercials and cost governance
- Good understanding of the cost drivers behind cloud, network, platform and operational infrastructure spend
- Ability to challenge constructively, influence senior stakeholders and work effectively across engineering, finance and procurement
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- FinOps Certified Practitioner
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
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