Title: FinOps Specialist - Cloud Cost & Technology Spend Analytics
Position Type: Contract
Industry Sector: Financial Services (Investment Management, Capital Markets, Pensions preferred)
Duration: 12 Month Contract
Location: Toronto, ON (Downtown Toronto)
Work Model: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)
Engagement Model: Professional Services Engagement - B2B (Incorporated entities only)
About the Opportunity
Akkodis is partnering with a leading Canadian investment management firm and pension organization who are seeking an experienced FinOps Specialist to support technology cost transparency, cloud financial management, and multi-vendor spend analytics initiatives.
We are seeking a highly analytical professional with strong experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, financial analysis, and data analytics who can help transform complex vendor, cloud, and financial data into meaningful business insights.
This opportunity is ideal for a FinOps Analyst, Cloud Financial Analyst, Cloud Cost Analyst, Technology Financial Analyst, IT Cost Analyst, FinOps Specialist, or Data Business Management (TBM) Analyst who enjoys solving complex data challenges and helping organizations better understand, manage, and optimize technology investments.
The successful candidate will work closely with Finance, Procurement, Vendor Management, and Technology teams to analyze cloud and technology spending, reconcile usage and billing data, identify optimization opportunities, support forecasting and budgeting activities, and provide actionable insights that drive better technology spending decisions.
What You'll Be Doing
- Analyze large volumes of cloud billing, consumption, utilization, pricing, and vendor spend data across multiple technology providers
- Consolidate and normalize data from cloud platforms, SaaS providers, financial systems, procurement tools, and enterprise data sources
- Perform cloud cost and technology spend analysis to identify trends, cost drivers, anomalies, and optimization opportunities
- Reconcile vendor invoices, consumption records, contracts, and internal financial data to improve cost transparency and reporting accuracy
- Support budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, chargeback, and show-back initiatives
- Develop reporting dashboards and visualizations that provide visibility into technology costs, consumption, forecasts, and savings opportunities
- Track and quantify realized cost savings and optimization initiatives
- Analyze vendor pricing models, contractual commitments, discounts, reserved capacity programs, and consumption-based agreements
- Establish repeatable data reconciliation and reporting processes to improve confidence in FinOps reporting
- Partner with Finance, Procurement, Vendor Management, and Technology stakeholders to support data-driven decision making
- Support vendor reviews, contract renewals, and commercial discussions through detailed spend and consumption analysis
- Translate complex technical and financial datasets into meaningful insights for business and executive stakeholders
Required Expertise
- Proven experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, IT financial management, technology cost management, or related analytical roles
- Strong experience analyzing large and complex datasets from multiple systems and vendors
- Advanced SQL skills for data extraction, transformation, reconciliation, and analysis
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including complex formulas, pivots, modeling, and large dataset manipulation
- Experience with cloud cost management and billing analysis across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or comparable cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar analytics and reporting platforms
- Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, chargeback, showback, and cost allocation processes
- Strong understanding of cloud pricing models, consumption-based billing, commitments, discounts, and usage optimization strategies
- Experience reconciling financial and operational datasets across disparate platforms and data structures
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify trends, anomalies, cost drivers, and savings opportunities
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present analytical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or other FinOps Foundation certifications
- Experience working within multi-cloud or complex multi-vendor environments
- Experience with SaaS cost management, software licensing analysis, and technology vendor spend optimization
- Experience supporting vendor negotiations, sourcing initiatives, contract renewals, or commercial reviews
- Familiarity with FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)
- Experience building forecasting models and conducting scenario-based financial analysis
- Python, Pandas, or data automation experience
- Technology Business Management (TBM) experience
- Experience within financial services, pensions, insurance, banking, or other highly regulated industries
Ideal Background
We are particularly interested in candidates who have worked as a FinOps Specialist, Senior FinOps Analyst, Cloud Financial Analyst, Cloud Cost Analyst, Technology Financial Analyst, IT Cost Analyst, Cloud Economics Analyst, Vendor Analytics Specialist, or Data Business Management Analyst within large enterprise environments.
The ideal candidate is someone who can connect cloud consumption data, vendor invoices, contracts, procurement records, and financial information to provide a complete view of technology spend. They should be comfortable moving between detailed data analysis and business-focused financial interpretation while identifying opportunities to improve cost transparency, forecasting accuracy, and operational efficiency.
Candidates with experience supporting cloud cost optimization programs, vendor management initiatives, technology financial governance, and enterprise FinOps transformations will be particularly well-positioned for success in this role.
How to Apply
If you are interested in learning more, don't hesitate to apply today or check-out Akkodis Canada website for more opportunities.
Important
This is a business-to-business engagement. Candidates must represent an incorporated entity, hold a valid business number, maintain appropriate insurance, and invoice for services rendered.
We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only candidates meeting the above qualifications will be contacted for further discussions.
Accessibility:
At Akkodis, part of The Adecco Group, our purpose is simple: to make the future work for everyone. We live our values, Passion, Collaboration, Inclusion, Courage, and Customers at Heart, by fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated and every voice matters. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Together, we’re making the future work for everyone.
