FinOps Specialist

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location - Edinburgh

In this position, you'll be based in the Edinburgh office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.

We give you a world of potential

Computershare have a very exciting opportunity for a FinOps Specialist to join our team in Edinburgh.

Why is this role exciting when there are so many other positions in the market? Well, there are a few things that make this role stand out:

• This is a new role in a brand-new team/function, so you will be in at the ground level helping us define the team going forward.
• We're a global business, so you will continuously get exposure to different areas and development opportunities.
• We encourage flexible working, allowing you to work in the way that suits you best.

Interested? Keep on reading to find out a bit more about what you'll be doing, and the type of person that we're looking for.

A role you will love

As one of our FinOps Specialists, you be responsible for managing and optimizing cloud financial operations, with a strong focus on Azure, and growing into other cloud providers. This role bridges the gap between finance, engineering, and operations to ensure efficient cloud spend, cost transparency, and financial accountability.

In this role, you will be monitoring and analysing cloud spend across platforms and services. While doing this you will identify cost-saving opportunities and work with the relevant teams to implement solutions and best practices.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with engineering teams and business partners to implement recommendations.
• Drive the implementation of operational processes to support FinOps practices leveraging ITSM models.
• Maintain historical cost data and trend analysis.
• Monitor compliance with cloud usage policies and cost controls.
• Work with finance and product teams to align forecasts with business plans.

What will you bring to the role?

As you've probably gathered by now, we are looking for someone with an excellent understanding of FinOps practices and successful experience of implementation and execution of them. As this is a specialist role, you will need to be comfortable providing support and guidance to members of the team as well as providing development opportunities.

With this role being global and a key part of our team, we are looking for someone with experience in a similar role in a complex organisation. As this role will be dealing with various different stakeholders and teams, you will need excellent communication skills to effectively provide clear verbal and written communications with internal stakeholders, their teams and the leadership team.

Other key skills required for the role include:

• Proven experience working within the FinOps space, ideally within a financial services environment.
• Excellent cloud experience, particularly in Azure and AWS.
• Reporting skills to effectively provide updates and analysis for stakeholders and teams.
• Experience of leveraging PowerBI for reporting dashboards.
• Excellent attention to detail and evaluative judgement based on best practice and previous experience.
• The ability to co-ordinate, lead and direct efforts, ensuring that quality standards and time constraints are continuously delivered to a high standard.

If this sounds like just the role you've been looking for, be sure to apply today!

Rewards designed for you

Flexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle.

Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family.

Invest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you'll receive a company contribution as well.

Extra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future.

And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our careers hub will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit computershare.com/careershub.

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ABOUT US

A company to be proud of

We're a global leader in financial administration with over 12,000 employees across more than 22 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.

Fairness and culture

We're dedicated to providing you with the opportunity to succeed on your own merits, starting from the application process and continuing throughout your career with us. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone feels valued, to remove barriers and obstacles and ensure equal opportunities for all. For support with accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process please visit computershare.com/access for further information.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Technology Services team is a place where new ideas and approaches are welcomed, and every individual is equipped and empowered to create change. We're a rapidly evolving and diverse global business and there is always something to learn, opportunities to explore and a broad range of career paths to progress along.

Client-provided location(s): Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job ID: Computershare-8968

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-14T18:40:07