We’re hiring a FinOps & Technology Cost Manager to bring clarity, control, and measurable value to cloud, SaaS, and AI investment across our organisation. This is a high-impact, senior individual contributor role where you’ll shape how technology spend is tracked, governed, and optimised whilst partnering across Technology, Finance, and Contract Management to drive smarter decisions at scale.
From building a transparent, end-to-end view of spend to proactively identifying risks, trends, and optimisation opportunities, you’ll ensure every pound invested in technology delivers real business value. You’ll champion cost-aware engineering, embed robust forecasting and reporting practices, and influence decisions that improve efficiency without compromising delivery.
At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you.
What you’ll be doing
- Owning reporting, forecasting, and budget tracking across cloud, SaaS, AI, and technology spend.
- Driving cost optimisation through rightsizing, commitment management, and waste reduction.
- Building and maintaining accurate forecasts, tracking variance, and agreeing corrective actions.
- Developing dashboards and reporting to support leadership decision-making.
- Establishing and maintaining standards for cost allocation, tagging, ownership, and governance.
- Partnering with Technology, Finance, and Contract Management to improve cost control.
- Leading regular spend reviews to identify risks, trends, anomalies, and optimisation opportunities.
- Managing SaaS licensing and vendor spend, including utilisation, renewals, and contract value.
- Tracking and optimising AI platform costs, including licences, APIs, and token usage.
- Promoting cost-aware engineering practices to improve efficiency without impacting delivery.
What you won’t be doing
- Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions.
- Working in a place where you can’t see the impact your expertise makes.
Requirements
To succeed in this role you will be able to demonstrate some of the following skills and experience:
- Demonstrable experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, technology finance, or a similar discipline.
- A proven track record of improving spend visibility, forecasting accuracy, cost allocation, and financial control.
- Excellent analytical capability, with the ability to interpret trends, manage forecasts, analyse variances, and track key performance metrics.
- Experience defining and embedding standards for cost allocation, tagging, ownership, and reporting.
- The ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including presenting insights to senior leadership.
- A collaborative approach, with experience working cross-functionally with Technology, Finance, and Commercial or Contract Management teams.
- Confidence in influencing decisions, constructively challenging inefficiencies, and driving cost accountability.
- Comfort working in a scaling or evolving environment where processes and controls are still maturing.
Any experience of the following would also be highly sought after:
- FinOps Certified Practitioner certification, or equivalent hands-on experience delivering FinOps practices.
- Experience with cloud cost management, billing data, budgeting, and reporting tools.
- Exposure to SaaS licensing, utilisation tracking, renewals, and vendor spend management.
- Experience managing AI platform costs, including licensing, APIs, and token consumption.
Benefits
- Salary from £75,000 per annum.
- Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
- Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
- Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
- Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
- Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
- A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at [email protected]
Skills Required
- Demonstrable experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, technology finance, or a similar discipline
- Proven track record of improving spend visibility, forecasting accuracy, cost allocation, and financial control
- Excellent analytical capability to interpret trends, manage forecasts, analyse variances, and track KPIs
- Experience defining and embedding standards for cost allocation, tagging, ownership, and reporting
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including presenting to senior leadership
- Collaborative experience working cross-functionally with Technology, Finance, and Commercial or Contract Management teams
- Confidence in influencing decisions, constructively challenging inefficiencies, and driving cost accountability
- Comfort working in a scaling or evolving environment where processes and controls are still maturing
- FinOps Certified Practitioner certification or equivalent hands-on FinOps experience
- Experience with cloud cost management, billing data, budgeting, and reporting tools
- Exposure to SaaS licensing, utilisation tracking, renewals, and vendor spend management
- Experience managing AI platform costs, including licensing, APIs, and token consumption
What We Do
Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases. Our mission is to create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK. Each volunteer will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample that can be linked to their health records. Taken together, the data will present health researchers with a powerful tool to identify new ways of tackling diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia. It's an unprecedented challenge that involves answering questions that have never been asked before – ethical, practical, and technological. And by getting these answers right, we believe Our Future Health will allow future generations to live in good health for longer. We are currently expanding our team and looking for specialists across various fields – people who are motivated by the opportunity of creating something new that will make a difference to society. Click on the Jobs tab above to start exploring our current opportunities. Our Future Health is a registered charity in England, Wales and Scotland.
