FinOps Analyst

Accepting applications until: 26 June 2026 Job Description 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 Global is home to some of the UK's best-loved radio stations such as Heart, Capital and Classic FM, to name a few, we keep 25.2 million listeners tuned in and entertained each week. And that's just for starters; we’re one of the leading Outdoor advertising companies in the UK, having recently acquired Primesight and Outdoor Plus. With over 35,000 sites covering 95% of the UK population, Global Outdoor packs a punch! In 2018 we launched our awards ceremony, The Global Awards, to celebrate the biggest stars of music, news and entertainment. To enable us to deliver the absolute best product to our audiences, we need the absolute best people across a range of disciplines. From Technology and Programming to Marketing and Commercial. From Digital to Finance to Legal and beyond, it’s the diverse mix of skills and people that make Global what it is. For us, it’s not just about talent, it’s about the right attitude and a personality to match. Simply put, we're passionate about radio, music, media & entertainment - welcome to our world.