Senior Cloud FinOps Specialist

Job description summary:

A Azure focussed, Senior FinOps Specialist is required to join a dedicated FinOps team to manage a large public cloud estate. The successful candidate will be working with: Application teams at every stage of the application lifecycle to improve cost / performance ratios; Finance & Procurement teams to help simplify complex billing data received; and Architecture & Design teams where sharing Microsoft best practice and industrial experience aids key choices and long-term decision making.

The work is varied: needing evidenced technical skills, to plan & implement reserved instances & savings plans; analytical skills, to interpret spreadsheets and charts produced by the cloud cost and billing consoles; And interpersonal skills, where the communication of complex data in simple terms is essential for all levels of the organisation.

Role Purpose

The Cloud FinOps Specialist is responsible for managing cloud consumption by encouraging efficient cloud use throughout the application lifecycle. The successful candidate will have extensive Microsoft Azure experience; be familiar with the FinOps foundation's framework & know what is required to achieve "run" maturity; be able to confidently talk with application teams about their designs, encouraging good use of cloud agility and unit economics; and be able to highlight improvements to cost / performance ratios through virtual machine management & reserved instance purchase.

Role Responsibilities

• Work with application teams to educate and advise on technology usage specifically to ensure the most appropriate technologies are implemented; reserved instances purchased, and savings plans are considered where required.
• Support Finance, Account Payable, Vendor Management and Procurement with purchase orders and billing console updates as required. Join Finance related business calls to offer advice if needed.
• Work with the platform teams to ensure the Cost Management toolsets and Microsoft Azure billing consoles are configured correctly.
• Keep up to date with industry trends so that business stakeholders can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost / performance ratios.
• Use cost management tools to clearly communicate complex analysis of cloud data in simple understandable terms for all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrable eagerness to learn the latest industrial trends and can translate how these services or technologies can improve cost / performance for our business stakeholders.
• Use reports to highlight tagging data quality to drive improvements with cost allocation and management reports.

• Good English language verbal and written communication skills essential.
• Ideally, the successful candidate would hold the Microsoft Certified: Azure Expert qualification or Microsoft Certified: Azure Associate with 2+ years industry experience in a large-scale organisation.

or

• Hold a degree in Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent; be studying toward or hold the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals qualification and have 3+ years' proven Azure experience in a large-scale organisation.

• Familiar with the FinOps Foundation framework and understand what it means to reach "run" maturity.
• Experience using a public cloud cost management tool.
• Understand common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts that Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams use day-to-day is essential.

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Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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