The Excel Guide Hiring! Part Time Cloud Financial Analyst - Cloud Financial Consultant - Cloud Financial Specialist in - Ricebowl

Role Description

The Cloud Financial Analyst / Cloud Financial Consultant / Cloud Financial Specialist helps organisations understand, forecast, and control cloud expenditure. Responsibilities include analysing billing and usage, allocating costs, investigating variances, and evaluating savings opportunities with Finance and technical teams.

The Analyst develops forecasts, models, and reporting insights. The Consultant assesses cloud financial practices and recommends improvements, while the Specialist maintains billing reconciliations, allocation rules, budgets, and recurring cost reviews to strengthen spending accountability.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant experience in financial analysis, technology finance, cloud cost management, or FinOps.
• Understanding of cloud consumption, pricing structures, billing, and cost allocation.
• Strong Excel skills and familiarity with SQL, dashboards, and cloud cost reporting tools.
• Ability to forecast expenditure, explain variances, and investigate unexpected charges.
• Familiarity with tagging, shared cost allocation, budgets, and billing reconciliation.
• Strong communication skills for explaining financial findings and coordinating technical and business stakeholders.
• For analyst positions, experience developing cost models, forecasts, and performance reports.
• For consultant positions, experience assessing practices, evaluating savings options, and recommending cost governance improvements.
• For specialist positions, experience maintaining allocation processes, budget alerts, billing controls, and tracking agreed optimisation actions.