FinOps Senior Analyst

Role Title: FinOps Senior Analyst

Duration: 5 Months

Location: Sheffield (Hyrid)

Rate: £400 Per Day - Umbrella only

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose/summary

We are a global function of over 500 people, and part of the wider IT COO organisation. We serve all of HSBC 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, PC's, 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

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!