Senior FinOps Analyst – AI

About the role

We are looking for a Senior FinOps Analyst who will lead the measurement, analysis, and optimisation of AI‑related costs across the organisation. In this role you will partner with engineering, product and finance teams to provide clear, data‑driven insight into the financial impact of AI adoption and support sustainable growth.

Key responsibilities

• Own AI cost modelling and attribution across tokens, models, products, teams and shared infrastructure.
• Define unit‑cost metrics that separate usage growth from efficiency improvements.
• Maintain accurate, explainable cost data with clear lineage and defensible methodology.
• Build Python pipelines to normalise telemetry, provider API data, platform usage and cloud billing into trusted datasets.
• Automate recurring reporting, month‑end close support and anomaly detection.
• Create practical BI dashboards for engineering teams and credible reports for finance stakeholders.
• Analyse cost movements, explain drivers and forecast future implications.
• Identify, quantify and track optimisation opportunities across model selection, prompt efficiency, caching, batching, retrieval, commitments and tooling overlap.

Required profile

• Proven experience in FinOps, cloud cost management or related financial analytics roles.
• Strong ability to translate technical cost data into actionable business insights.
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Required skills

• Python programming for data pipelines and automation.