Description
Cloud FinOps Workstream Lead (Vendor Management) - Financial Services
Are you a passionate and confident Cloud FinOps Workstream Lead, experienced working in Financial Services, ready to make a significant contribution working for one of the UK's fastest growing Financial Services Consultancies?
Then read on!
MHC Overview:
MHC are an award-winning IT and Business Consultancy, specialising in Change Management initiatives, which we deliver working in a collaborative way with our Clients. We are currently working on a wide variety of assignments that include some major Digital Transformation initiatives, Regulatory and Compliance Programmes and Tools adoption projects where we are providing specialist technical and business services to a client base of primarily Tier 1 Banks.
You will have the confidence and the capability to step straight into a specialist consultancy role within one of MHC's Practice areas to provide effective and efficient solutions that support our Clients' business requirements, while working constructively with senior MHC and Client managers and other staff.
The Team
You will be part of the Enterprise Cloud team that is comprised of two functions, the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) covering Azure and AWS Platform SRE, Classic Hosting SRE, Cloud Enablement and Cloud Infrastructure Architecture as well as the Cloud Business Office who are responsible for a number of key pillars; cloud programme management, training & knowledge management, cloud design authority, finance/billing/recharge oversight, vendor management, regulatory & compliance reporting, communications marketing and senior business stakeholder engagement.
What you'll do
- Lead a team of Technology and Finance staff to establish the FinOps function
- Project management of the FinOps workstream within Cloud Programme
- Define and lead the workstream activities required to transform the existing on-prem re-charge process into a service-based pricing model (includes process, organisational, data and tooling changes)
- Provide workstream updates into the central Cloud programme clearly articulating progress, current status, future sprint focus, key milestones, budget/finance status and forecast, and track any actions that arise through to closure
- Establish a strong partnership between the Technology and Finance teams
- Formulate how we structure and operate cloud finance billing & recharge working with GT business managers, CCoE and Finance to drive service-based pricing for cost transparency to both GT deliver teams as well as the business
- Contribute content to the cloud communication strategy
- Every week solve exciting new challenges with an amazing team and technology stack
- Work with the Head of Cloud Business Office to manage vendors such as Microsoft (Azure), AWS and external resourcing partners
- Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect the programme
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams comprising business analysts, business managers and business SMEs
- Experience of delivering within large and complex technology change transformation programmes
- A deep understanding of Agile new ways of working (Scrum, SAFe)
- Very strong interpersonal and communication skills
- The ability to manage in a dynamic and global environment
- Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across technology
- An understanding of cloud computing business drivers and emerging technologies and trends
- An understanding FinOps best practices and tools
- An understanding of software development
- An understanding of the infrastructure stack; Virtualisation, Windows, Linux, Storage, Database and Networking
- Experience with modern engineering and agile practices as well as shift left CI/CD
- Passionate about building and delivering high quality business services
Desirable Knowledge and Experience:
- University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline
- Previous experience of working in a technical role in development or infrastructure
- Understanding of Azure and/or AWS
- Experience of Power BI, Azure Power Platform, Tableau