FinOps Specialist

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• Conduct Workshops and FAQ Sessions: Upskill internal stakeholders on cloud financial management and cost-saving measures through workshops and FAQ sessions.
• 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.
• Develop and Document Processes: Create comprehensive documentation of processes, policies, and cloud cost governance strategies, ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
• Reporting: Maintain dashboards or reports for tracking cloud costs and providing visibility to stakeholders, in tools such as PowerBI.
• 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:

• Demonstrable experience in cloud financial management, particularly in cost optimisation and reduction.
• 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.
• Cost Governance and Compliance: Experience in establishing and enforcing cloud cost governance policies, ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
• Experience in recommending and selecting finops tools
• Experience with Reserved Instance purchasing across AWS/Azure
• Experience setting up a team to manage FinOps including necessary FinOps framworks
• 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.