Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Select your locationSelect your locationIndustriesChoose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Glasgow, Manchester, London# FinOps Managing Consultant## **Capgemini Invent**At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.## **Your Role**As a Senior Manager in Cloud Economics/Finops at Capgemini Invent you will be part of our Cloud Advisory capability within the wider Business Technology capability unit. Our Cloud Advisory capability aims to inspire, lead and support organisations on their journey of adopting cloud for creating business and revenue models, generating growth, ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing their carbon footprint. The Cloud Economics function covers Cloud Business Case, FinOps and Cloud Value Realisation. You will focus on advising our clients on processes and solutions that will help ensure that they are gaining the greatest value from their cloud solutions at all stages of the cloud adoption journey. You will be required to work and communicate with all levels of an organisation to collaboratively innovate, design and implement new cloud economics models. You’ll bring an acute sense of market trends and the challenges facing our clients, to deliver lasting and sustainable organisation transformations.In this role you will play a key role in:* **Cost Optimisation Analysis**: Review and analyse cloud usage patterns to identify cost saving opportunities. Guide cloud users on methods to optimise cloud usage, establish and enforce budget-aligned policies for financial accountability.* **Financial Reporting and Analysis**: Prepare detailed financial reports including forecasting and present these to senior client management and application teams to highlight cloud spend and trajectory to provide visibility into cloud spending* **Policy and Governance:** Establish cloud governance policies, guardrails and best practice to assure cost control.* **Training and Enablement**: Provide training on FinOps best practices and establish mechanisms to promote a culture of accountability and cost awareness.* **Vendor Engagement**: Engage and manage relationships with cloud vendors.As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:* **Business Development** – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.* **Internal Contribution** – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.* **Learning & Development** – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.## **Your Profile**Here are some of the key skills and experience we would like—but not limited to—as we value and appreciate the diverse backgrounds and perspectives everyone brings. If you feel this role aligns with your strengths and aspirations, we encourage you to apply.* Experience of working on FinOps projects and initiatives* Setup and definition of Cloud FinOps CoEs and governance models for large or mid-sized organisations* FinOps certified* Experience of working with one or more cloud vendors including AWS, Azure and GCP.* Good understanding of billing and metering for cloud platforms and TCO analysis based on usage* Hands-on working experience in one or more FinOps and TBM tools like Cloudability, CloudCheckr, Cloudhealth, AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management etc.* Good understanding of cloud cost optimisation techniques across storage, data transfer, compute, database and monitoring.* Good understanding of cloud contracting models, commitment models and licensing models* Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.* Experience of proposition building and delivery.* Cloud practitioner certified* Being comfortable in a client-facing role, with previously consulting or advisory experience (desirable)In addition to the capabilities mentioned above, we are looking for an additional set of experiences from candidates seeking to apply to the Senior Manager position:* Evidence of having successfully delivered and led advisory engagements, driving positive outcomes and developing opportunities to deliver follow-on work* Evidence of managing teams, including multiple workstreams in complex delivery environments* The ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders* Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be generating c.£1m of consulting revenuesJoin the close-knit, rapidly growing Cloud Transformation Tribe at Capgemini Invent, where you’ll play a key role in helping top organisations unlock the full potential of their cloud investments. As part of our team, you’ll work on impactful projects that drive innovation and efficiency, collaborating closely with experts in a supportive, agile environment that values growth, learning, and teamwork. If you’re excited to be part of a dynamic group making real transformations in cloud technology, Capgemini Invent is the place to grow.We provide a host of opportunities for learning and certification through internal and partner led programmes from AWS, Google and Microsoft and hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients.We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit ourWhilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.Experience levelExperienced ProfessionalsLocationGlasgow, Manchester, London #J-18808-Ljbffr