Cloud Economist

**About The Role**:
FinOps, A.K.A Cloud Financial Management, is the practise to ensure that the maximum value of Cloud is realised. A successful FinOps practice is a significant driving force within businesses and organisations, as it allows them to confidently make strategic decisions. More information can be found here.

As a Cloud Financial Management Analyst within this team, your main role is to support the delivery of the FinOps Services through the creation of reports and analysis of cost and usage data. Your reports will directly influence the decision makers within our clients. Over time, you will be able to draw your own insights as to what drives cost and usage and be able to use that experience to advise clients on how to manage their clouds more efficiently.

This is an entry level role, you will be coached and mentored to gain industry recognized certs and improving your soft skills to become a leading consultant within this field. You will be encouraged to take full advantage of the resources available at Claranet - through engaging with our Engineers to understand the technical nuances of public cloud, our Solutions Architects to sharpen your big-picture thinking and our own internal Finance teams to develop your understanding of financial management within organisations.

If you are considering a career in traditional financial roles but have an interest in technology and/or consulting, then this role is suited to you.

We’re working on building an ever-improving company based on openness, diversity, collaboration, and empathy as our core values, a company that aims to be inclusive for the diverse group of people we get to work with, and where everyone supports each other and celebrates successes together.

**Hiring Process**:
**About You**:
**Roles and**
**responsibilities***:

- You will deliver support the service in delivering FinOps/GreenOps reports and recommendations to customers.
- Familiarity with Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, CloudCheckr or similar tools is a plus but not essential.
- You'll be able to take business requirements and translate that into cost models. Experience with Excel and/or PowerBI is preferable
- You will have strong analytical skills and good attention to detail in which you will use to advise stakeholders of what the data means
- You'll be able to articulate recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.

**Position Specifications**:

- You have a positive mindset: you're excited by unfamiliar challenges and learning new things
- You're collaborative, supportive, and love to help others learn
- You’re enthusiastic and eager to learn a wide variety of technologies
- You keep up to date on new technologies and trends
- Networking skills - FinOps is about stakeholder management as much as it is analysis work.
- Degree in Business, Finance, IT or Analytics (preferred, not essential)
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Understanding of the key drivers, concepts and language that Finance, Procurement, Service Management and/or Technology teams use day-to-day.

**About Us**:
Claranet combine pioneering technologies, practices, and expertise to propel our customers ambitions. Through a vibrant customer centric culture of collaboration, learning, and opportunity, we nurture a dynamic community of the best technology and service expertise spanning cloud, cybersecurity, networks, and unified communications.

Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved into a multi-disciplinary technology services provider with global reach. The company has annualised revenues of circa £400 million, over 6,500 customers, and more than 2,500 employees in nine countries. In the UK we have over 500 staff working in London, Gloucester, Warrington, Bristol, and Leeds, or as homeworkers.

Claranet consistently appears in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 as one of the fastest growing privately-owned businesses in the UK. Our international success is driven by local service, out of local offices, using a mixture of local and international infrastructure, including hyperscaler clouds.

Businesses of all sizes need to get the most from the latest cloud technologies, tools, automation, and development practices to solve their toughest business challenges. We provide consulting, professional services and managed services, helping customers transform and modernise wherever they are on their public cloud journey. Our focus is on customer success, providing the right services at the right time, to grow and compete at their best. Claranet is a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP and Gold Partner, AWS Premier Consulting and Managed Service Partner, and Google Premier Partner.

The Cloud Business Unit represents over £50m+ in annual revenues from a wide range of small, medium and large Enterprise Customers and specialises in Enterprise Scale Cl