FinOps Data Analyst
Posted 1 week ago by Square One Resources
£300 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The FinOps Data & Reporting Analyst role in Sheffield focuses on providing insights for optimizing technology infrastructure costs through data analysis and reporting. The position involves collaboration with the Chief Technology Office to track rightsizing opportunities and benefits, ensuring efficient utilization of resources. The ideal candidate will leverage strong analytical skills and data visualization techniques to present findings effectively. This is a contract position set to begin in August 2025 and will last until the end of November.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting the analysis, planning and execution of optimisation/rightsizing tactics for on-premise infrastructure.
- Tracking benefits achieved through rightsizing, including cost impacts and resource needs.
- Provision of presentation materials relating to technology usage and optimisation opportunities.
Key Skills:
- Strong analytical background with IT financial data interpretation.
- Excel data analysis, SQL, Power BI, and data mapping.
- Experience with data visualization techniques and high-quality PowerPoint presentations.
- Understanding of IT services and financial management processes.
- Working knowledge of IT infrastructure domains.
Salary (Rate): £300 daily
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title : FinOps Data & Reporting Analyst
Location: Sheffield
Salary/Rate : Up to £300 per day inside IR35
Start Date : August 2025
Job Type: Contract initially until the end of November
The ideal candidate will be in partnership with the Chief Technology Office to proactively provide insights regarding rightsizing opportunities across Datacentre and End User technologies, thus allowing internal customers/business functions to reduce their utilisation and spend on technology infrastructure.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
- Supporting the analysis, planning and execution of optimisation/rightsizing tactics, working with business aligned IT functions to optimise their on-premise infrastructure (eg servers, storage, database, mainframe, PC’s) consumption and spend.
- Tracking benefits achieved through rightsizing, including direct cost impacts, reduced datacentre space, power and carbon needs, and the re-use of relinguished assets (thus deferring additional spend).
- Provision of presentation materials relating to technology usage, charges and optimisation opportunities, comprising data sourced from internal billing systems, infrastructure inventories and utilisation reporting.
Required Skills/Experience
- Strong analytical background with the ability to proactively create, interrogate, interpret and draw conclusions/ next steps from IT financial data, and present in an easy to consume way.
- Excel data analysis, SQL, Power BI, data mapping
- Experience with charting and other data visualisation techniques, highly quality Powerpoint is a must.
- Understanding of IT services, financial management processes and best practices such as budgeting, cost allocations, and recharges for infrastructure services.
- Working knowledge of IT infrastructure domains including data centres, network/communications, server utilisation, virtual environments and storage (likely from working within an IT infrastructure function).
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Knowledge of IT Financial Management (ITFM), Technology Business Management (TBM) and/or FinOps principles.
- Aware of ApptioOne or similar IT cost management solution.
- ITIL or Service Management background.
- Logical data mapping experience and use of SQL queries would be desirable.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.