Overview
Cloud FinOps Manager – Leeds, LS11 5AD
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
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”
