FinOps Specialist
We are currently recruiting for a FinOps Specialist with experience working on cloud financial operations to join one of our Consultancy clients on a 3 month contract.
Inside IR35
Remote
Responsibilities:
1. Lead Cloud Waste Management and Cost Optimisation: Drive initiatives focused on reducing cloud waste and costs by identifying inefficiencies and implementing best practices across group technology and divisions.
2. Collaborate with Stakeholders: Engage with cloud subscription owners, finance teams, engineering teams, and executive leadership to implement changes, ensure compliance, and align cloud spending with business goals.
3. Conduct Workshops and FAQ Sessions: Upskill internal stakeholders on cloud financial management and cost-saving measures through workshops and FAQ sessions.
4. Analyse Cloud Utilisation: Provide detailed analysis of cloud resource utilisation, summarising findings on usage patterns and wastage, and implementing tactical and strategic levers for cost-saving opportunities.
5. Develop and Document Processes: Create comprehensive documentation of processes, policies, and cloud cost governance strategies, ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
6. Reporting: Maintain dashboards or reports for tracking cloud costs and providing visibility to stakeholders, in tools such as PowerBI.
7. Support Handover Process: Collaborate with the Project Manager to prepare and execute the handover plan to the newly hired internal FinOps team, including conducting upskilling sessions.
Experience:
8. Demonstrable experience in cloud financial management, particularly in cost optimisation and reduction.
9. Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and their cost management features, alongside proficiency in FinOps tools such as Azure Cost Advisor and AWS Cost Explorer.
10. Cost Governance and Compliance: Experience in establishing and enforcing cloud cost governance policies, ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
11. Experience in recommending and selecting finops tools
12. Experience with Reserved Instance purchasing across AWS/Azure
13. Experience setting up a team to manage FinOps including necessary FinOps framworks
14. Have acted as the point of contact for an organisation for FinOps queries and Responsibilities
Desirable: Experience with CloudHealth, Lucidity & Prosperops, Azure Cost Advisor and AWS Cost Explorer
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.