Finops Analyst

**Business Unit**:Discovery Central Services**Function**:Financial Analysis**Date**:3 Dec 2024
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- Discovery - GIS (Group Information Services)
FinOps Analyst

**About Discovery**
- Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
- **Job Purpose**
- The FinOps Analyst will serve as a link between Finance and Systems teams. This technical individual will be responsible for analysing and managing both our cloud and on-premises systems infrastructure expenditures, identifying cost-saving opportunities, collaborating with systems leads to implement optimizations, and delivering comprehensive reports to both finance and systems to enable cost savings.**Key outputs**:

- Assist in setting up FinOps best practices and processes across the Cloud operations and systems teams.
- Regularly analyse our infrastructure consumption, spending, and identifying cost drivers.
- Collaborate with finance, operations, and technology teams to identify and drive actionable solutions for cost optimization.
- Provide granular insights into cloud financial operations, helping leaders make informed decisions.
- Create reports and dashboards to track and communicate cloud cost optimization efforts to stakeholders.
- Assisting in determining cost recovery basis and charges and month-end reporting
- Assistance with the budget process and preparing forecasts
- Collating and compiling various documents and information to process monthly journals
- Performing any other related tasks that may be required.

**Education**:

- Matric
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Finance, or a related field; CIMA; SAIPA; Certified FinOps Practitioner
- Cloud practitioner foundational certification with AWS/Azure/GCP

**Experience and Knowledge**:

- 1 to 2 years’ experience working in a corporate environment
- Experience in a finance role supporting an IT business
- 1 to 2 years’ experience working in a corporate environment either in IT or Finance working with clients.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing services, including cloud infrastructure, software, and platform as a service (IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS), as well as experience working with major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Experience in a FinOps role

**Employment Equity**
- The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.