FinOps Practitioner

Job Title Location

Rosebank - Johannesburg, 2196 ZA (Primary)

Senior Management

IT Operations

Permanent

Pay Inc is a purpose-driven payments provider building on over 50 years of trusted history in South Africa’s payments ecosystem. Our mission is to connect people, businesses, and economies through secure, efficient, and inclusive digital payment infrastructure and to be a catalyst for financial inclusion and economic growth. From EFTs and cards to Pay Shap, Pay Inc provides the backbone that enables money to move safely across the economy.

At our core, we exist to make great connections, empower participation, enable growth, and ensure no one is left behind.

The primary role of the Fin Ops Practitioner is to facilitate ongoing monitoring, analysis, and optimisation of cloud expenditures across all cloud platforms. This involves implementing and overseeing Fin Ops practices within the organisation, such as developing cost-visibility dashboards, forecasting usage, and identifying savings opportunities, such as rightsizing and reserved instances. As a Fin Ops Practitioner, your responsibility is to optimise cloud financial operations by bridging the gap between cloud engineers, finance, procurement, technology, business, and product teams.

The role ensures that cloud expenditures support business objectives, promote cost transparency, and foster accountability across departments for efficient cloud utilisation. This cross-functional coordination is vital for maintaining cost transparency and cultivating a culture of financial accountability in cloud usage through collaboration and shared accountability for cloud usage decisions.

• Fin Ops framework stakeholders, which include:
  • Finance
  • Procurement
  • Cloud engineers
  • Cloud Architects
  • Product owners
  • Technology teams and Leadership

• Track and assess cloud spending on platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports for cost visibility and forecasting
• Ensure alignment of accountability to cloud users by reporting spend vs. budget at granular levels
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through rightsizing, reserved instances, and usage optimisation
• Assist in making data-driven decisions that optimise cloud spending, ensuring the efficient use of resources and contributing to overall cost management strategies.
• Communicate consumption trends and financial impacts to stakeholders in clear, business terms.

• Facilitate collaboration with Cloud engineers, finance, technology, business and product teams to align cloud usage within budgetary constraints
• Educate teams on cloud cost implications and Fin Ops best practices
• Act as a liaison between finance and technical teams to ensure accurate chargebacks and allocations

• Ensure that policies for cloud budget controls, tagging standards, and resource accountability are in place.
• Ensure compliance with internal financial controls and external regulatory requirements
• Support audits and provide documentation on cloud financial practices

• Contribute to cloud strategy by providing insights into cost trends and ROI
• Participate in vendor negotiations and contract reviews for cloud services
• Support the development of Fin Ops maturity models and continuous improvement initiatives

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or related field
• AWS Cloud practitioner or Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

• 5+ years in cloud financial management, IT finance, or cloud operations
• Hands-on experience with cloud billing tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management)
• Familiarity with cloud architecture and services

• Integrity
• Analytical- and Critical Thinking Ability:
  Ability to gather sufficient data to understand a problem, to look at a situation from different perspectives
• Logical Thinking and Judgment Ability:
  Use of discretion and logical reasoning in a clear and consistent manner whilst considering/evaluating of information/circumstantial evidence in order to draw sound conclusions, form an opinion and make a good decision
• Creative and Innovative Ability:
  To be resourceful in generating new and original ideas to solve problems or designing new methods of executing/performing tasks to create value to the customer.
• Verbal , Non-verbal and Written Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to effectively interact with individuals/groups, using appropriate verbal-, non-verbal- or written communication on the required level, and sending out/ receiving a clear message in the intended way.
• Information Management:
  Ability to effectively use information for management purposes, to gather/ organise/ capture relevant information to support sound decision-making, to correctly extract data from an existing database/ MIS, extrapolate data to determine…