Cloud FinOps Analyst

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research-led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues. We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Your Team

You will be part of the Global Cloud FinOps team, supporting the financial management and optimization of cloud services across the organization. As a Cloud FinOps Analyst, you will play a key role in driving cloud cost transparency, improving resource efficiency, and enabling data-driven decision-making. This position requires a strong interest in cloud technologies, financial analysis, and stakeholder collaboration.

Your Key Tasks

• Monitor cloud consumption, costs, and resource utilization across cloud environments. Analyze usage and spend patterns to identify optimization opportunities and cost-saving initiatives.
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of one or more major cloud platforms, with a solid understanding of cloud concepts such as compute, storage, networking, elasticity, tagging strategies, billing structures, pricing models, commitment-based discounts, and cloud cost management tools.
• Apply FinOps principles, including cost allocation, showback/chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, amortization, and unit cost analysis.
• Assist in the development, maintenance, and tracking of cloud budgets and forecasts, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, KPIs, and analytical models to provide visibility into cloud spending and support financial planning.
• Partner with engineering, product, operations, and finance teams to improve cost accountability and promote efficient cloud consumption practices.
• Support cloud governance initiatives by helping define and monitor tagging compliance, cost allocation structures, and financial controls.
• Communicate cost drivers, trends, risks, and optimization recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the evaluation and tracking of cloud savings initiatives, including rightsizing, resource optimization, and commitment-based savings programs.
• Stay current with cloud platform enhancements, pricing updates, FinOps best practices, and emerging industry trends.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in Cloud FinOps, Cloud Cost Management, Technology Finance, or a related analytical role.
• Working knowledge of cloud computing concepts and at least one major cloud platform (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure preferred).
• Understanding of cloud financial management concepts, including budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and financial reporting.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to interpret complex datasets and present actionable insights.

It Would Be a Real Bonus If You Have:

• Certification from a major cloud vendor or from the FinOps Foundation.
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.

Additional Information

We realize that managing work-life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work-life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions; we are whole-heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique; we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations. #LI-Hybrid