Job Description

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Job Title

Cloud FinOps Manager###

Location

Asda House###

Employment Type

Full time###

Contract Type

Permanent###

Hours Per Week

37.5###

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

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Category

Business Performance and Process Transformation - SF###

Closing Date

9 October 2025



We are seeking a FinOps Manager to join our Cloud Platform Team, reporting directly to the Cloud Platform Senior Manager. You will lead the financial operations of Asda's cloud estate, ensuring cloud spend is monitored, optimised, forecasted, and aligned with budgetary goals. You will play a key role in driving cost efficiency, financial transparency, and value realization.

About You

You are an experienced FinOps professional with a strong background in cloud financial management, ideally within a large enterprise environment. You understand the critical role of cloud cost governance in enabling profitability and scalability, and you're passionate about driving change, influencing stakeholders, and embedding FinOps best practices across technology and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the

financial governance

of cloud spend across Azure and other platforms. Develop and maintain

forecasting models

, track budget vs. actuals, and analyse variances. Produce

monthly financial reports

tailored to senior leadership, portfolio leads, and technical teams. Identify and implement

cost optimisation strategies

including rightsizing, reserved instances, and removal of unused resources. Collaborate with Cloud Architecture, Engineering, and Finance teams to ensure

cost-effective design and deployment

of cloud solutions. Champion

FinOps best practices

, driving continuous improvement and innovation in cloud financial operations.

Qualifications & Experience

Required:

Minimum

1 years' experience

in cloud financial management or FinOps within a large enterprise. Experience managing

Azure cloud infrastructure

and associated cost tools. Strong analytical skills with proficiency in

Power BI, Azure Portal

, and financial modelling. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

Deep understanding of cloud cost optimisation techniques and tooling. Familiarity with enterprise budgeting and forecasting processes. Ability to translate technical cloud usage into business-relevant financial insights. FinOps Practitioner Certification (or equivalent) preferred.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.


You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

Discretionary company bonus Company pension up to 7% matched Company Car allowance of 5,700 15% colleague discount in store and online Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves"