03 — FinOps & Cost Optimisation

Cloud economics
under control

Cloud spend is one of the fastest-growing — and least understood — cost lines in most technology budgets. I help organisations to establish the visibility, governance, and culture to make informed spend decisions and align cloud investment directly to business value.

Core Services

From visibility to
sustained optimisation

I combine hands-on cloud cost engineering with the organisational and process frameworks needed to sustain savings over time. I don't just cut costs — I build the capability for your teams to manage cloud spend as a strategic asset.

Service 01
Cloud Cost Visibility & Management
Tagging StrategyCloud Cost Management Framework

You can't manage what you can't see. I establish full, accurate visibility of your cloud spend — allocated to the teams, products, and environments that generate it — so decisions are made on facts, not guesswork.

  • Cloud spend inventory and baseline analysis across all accounts and subscriptions
  • Tagging strategy design and implementation plan (resource, team, product, environment)
  • Cloud Cost Management Framework
Service 02
Waste Identification & Elimination
RightsizingIdle ResourcesStorageData Transfer

Systematic, evidence-based analysis of your cloud estate to identify and eliminate waste.

  • Idle and oversized compute resource identification
  • Unattached storage volumes and orphaned snapshots
  • Legacy and unused services, deprecated SKUs, and zombie resources
  • Inefficient data transfer and egress patterns
  • Rightsizing recommendations with impact analysis and implementation support
Service 03
Unit Economics & Cost Modelling
Cost per CustomerCost per TransactionProduct Economics

Moving beyond raw spend to unit economics — linking cloud cost to the business outcomes it enables. This gives product and engineering teams the information to make cost-aware decisions every day, not just at budget time.

  • Definition of meaningful cost-per-unit metrics for your business (per customer, per transaction, per product, per API call)
  • Cost model design and implementation
  • Integration of cost data into product and engineering dashboards
  • Cost-aware architecture patterns and design guidelines
  • Forecasting models aligned to business growth assumptions
Service 04
FinOps Operating Model
GovernanceTeam EnablementToolingCulture

Sustainable FinOps requires more than tools — it requires the right structures, processes, and culture. I design and implement an operating model that embeds FinOps into the way your engineering and finance teams work every day.

  • FinOps governance structure and team responsibilities
  • Tooling selection and implementation
  • Budgeting, forecasting, and variance reporting processes
  • Anomaly management and escalation workflows
  • Executive reporting and KPI framework
  • Engineering and finance team enablement and training
The FinOps Journey

A structured path to
cloud cost maturity

FinOps maturity doesn't happen overnight. I work with organisations at every stage of the journey — from basic visibility through to a fully embedded, self-sustaining FinOps culture.

Phase 1 — Inform

Visibility & Allocation

Understand where money is going and why. Establish the data foundation everything else depends on.

  • Tagging policy and allocation model
  • Baseline spend analysis by team, product, environment
  • Anomaly detection and alerting
Phase 2 — Optimise

Waste Elimination & Savings

Act on what you can see. Eliminate waste and implement commitment-based savings across compute, storage, and data.

  • Rightsizing and idle resource removal
  • Storage and data transfer optimisation
  • Architecture-level cost optimisation recommendations
Phase 3 — Operate

Culture & Continuous Optimisation

Embed FinOps into engineering culture so cost awareness becomes part of how your teams work, not a separate discipline.

  • FinOps operating model and governance
  • Unit economics and product cost dashboards
  • Engineering team enablement and training
  • Continuous optimisation cadence and retainer
  • Executive reporting and budget forecasting

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your cloud spend?

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