Confidential Careers Hiring! Full Time FinOps Specialist in Selangor - Ricebowl

Description:

A senior operational and financial governance role responsible for managing cloud cost efficiency, usage transparency, and financial accountability across the organization's technology landscape. Owns cost optimization strategy, cloud financial reporting, budget visibility, and cross-functional governance to ensure scalable, efficient, and controlled technology spend.

Responsibilities:

• Manage cloud cost visibility, allocation, forecasting, and optimization across products, platforms, and environments.
• Monitor cloud consumption trends, identify cost anomalies, and highlight optimization opportunities across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services.
• Support the definition and enforcement of tagging standards, cost allocation models, and budget visibility controls.
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Finance teams to improve cloud efficiency while maintaining performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Execute cost optimization initiatives such as rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, storage lifecycle improvements, and cleanup of underutilized resources.
• Prepare regular reporting on cloud spend, forecast trends, realized savings, and financial risks.
• Support budgeting and planning cycles by providing usage analysis, spend projections, and variance insights.
• Contribute to reporting automation and improvement of FinOps processes, controls, and governance practices.
• Help promote cost-aware engineering practices through clear reporting, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Maintain traceability and supporting documentation for cloud financial controls, allocation logic, and reporting methodologies.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years in FinOps, cloud cost management, infrastructure operations, or technology finance.
• Strong experience managing and optimizing cloud spend in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud pricing models and infrastructure cost drivers across compute, storage, networking, databases, and containerized platforms.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cloud cost reporting.
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management tools and reporting dashboards.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify inefficiencies, cost drivers, and optimization opportunities.
• Good understanding of cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and platform usage patterns.
• Ability to work closely with Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Finance stakeholders.
• Strong communication and reporting skills, with the ability to translate technical consumption into clear financial insight.
• Familiarity with tagging strategies, cost allocation practices, and cloud governance controls.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent preferred.