Senior Analyst Location: Sheffield End of November - likely extension C£250 per day inside Department: CTO COO Overview: We are a global function of over 500 people, and part of the wider IT COO organisation. We serve a corporate bank and its customers. We work in partnership with the Chief Technology Office to proactively provide insights regarding rightsizing opportunities across On-Premise Datacentre and End User technologies, thus allowing internal customers to reduce their utilisation and spend on technology infrastructure. We can categorize the services in the following key areas: Proposing On-Prem FinOps tactics to highlight rightsizing and cost reduction opportunities across CTO technology services (eg servers, storage, database, mainframe, PCs, licences) Tracking benefits achieved through rightsizing, including direct cost impacts, reduced datacentre space, power and carbon and re-use. Designing and delivering initiatives within the On-Prem FinOps team for specific ideas and tactics Gathering of functional and business requirements and rapidly translate that information into a working set of operational and financial models, dashboards, and management reports. Collaborate with ITID Business Managers on IT Total Cost of Ownership, financial metrics, and cost transparency initiatives. Requirements: Two or more years working within or leading FinOps teams, covering either Public Cloud, hybrid or on-Prem cost management and cost optimisation. Experience with at least one of the following on-prem FinOps techniques: software license optimisation, hardware decommissioning, storage optimisation, application decommissioning, on-prem compute optimisation. Ability to work efficiently and effectively with multiple levels of management and staff across the organization Experience and understanding of working in a Technology organisation that recharges its costs through to consumer organisations (known as Technology Business Management or TBM). Experience of working in IT infrastructure domains including data centres, network/communications, server utilization, virtual environments, storage, and application development Knowledge of IT services and financial management processes and best practices such as budgeting, cost allocations, capital & operating expense handling, program portfolio management, and application/infrastructure support Strong organizational skills Team player in an international team Good knowledge of English (written and spoken) Good skills in data transformation using MS Excel or Access Excellent communication and presentation skills to executive management audiences Nice to have: Strong ITIL or Service Management background ApptioOne, PowerApps, PowerBI Knowledge and application of relational database concepts Experience of large global organisations, ideally banking Good with data analytics and data mining.