Azure FinOps & Cloud Cost Analyst

Job Title – Azure FinOps & Cloud Cost Analyst

Company – TCS (MEA)

Location – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Job type – Full time

About Us:

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 616,171 of the world’s best-trained consultants with 157 nationalities in 53 countries. For more information, visit www.tcs.com and follow TCS news at @TCS_News.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities

A. Azure billing and cost visibility

• Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly Azure consumption, charges, credits, commitments, and spending trends.
• Reconcile Azure invoices or billing statements against Cost Management data, exports, agreed rates, credits, and adjustments.
• Analyze cost by subscription, resource group, service, environment, application, owner, project, and business unit.
• Maintain reliable monthly cost reporting and explain material changes, unusual charges, and key cost drivers.
• Track Azure credit burn rate and forecast expected depletion dates using documented assumptions and scenarios.
• Support cost allocation, showback/chargeback, and data-quality improvements for tags and ownership information.

B. Optimization and savings realization

• Identify and quantify optimization opportunities, including rightsizing, idle or orphaned resources, shutdown schedules, storage tiers, licensing benefits, reservations, savings plans, and architecture-related cost improvements.
• Maintain an optimization pipeline with opportunity value, owner, action, approval status, implementation date, risk, and expected payback.
• Work with infrastructure, application, data, security, and service owners to validate feasibility and agree implementation actions.
• Track recommendations through implementation and verify realized savings against an agreed baseline; do not report recommendations alone as savings.
• Highlight cost-risk trade-offs so that optimization does not compromise availability, performance, security, or business continuity.
• Use Azure Advisor and other available cost-management data as inputs, while independently validating financial impact.

C. Forecasting, governance and reporting

• Produce monthly rolling forecasts for Azure spend and consumption using actual usage, seasonality, project demand, commitments, and expected optimization.
• Estimate new workload costs using the Azure Pricing Calculator and documented technical assumptions provided by solution owners.
• Configure or support budgets, alerts, anomaly review, tagging controls, and recurring governance routines.
• Prepare concise monthly dashboards covering actuals, forecast, variance, cost drivers, credits, commitments, optimization pipeline, realized savings, and key risks.
• Maintain auditable calculation logic, source data, assumptions, and evidence for reported savings and forecasts.
• Recommend improvements to Azure financial governance, cost ownership, and accountability

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D. Routine IT budget support

• Provide Azure actuals, forecast, and variance inputs to the IT budget owner.
• Support recurring budget updates or basic variance analysis when requested.
• Assist with limited non-Azure budget activities only when capacity allows and without reducing the Azure FinOps focus.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s de