Description
Role: Senior FinOps Consultant
Key Essential Skills:
- FinOps Certification
- Extensive experience in public Cloud- AWS
- Apptio certification in Cloudability or AWS Native tools
- Agile project management.
- ITIL,
- TBM
- AWS or AZURE Certification
Desirable Skills:
- Kubernetes
- ITSM ServiceNow
- CMDB
- Kubernetes
- CSMD
- ITOM
Role & Responsibilities:
- Provide cloud cost expertise, advice, governance, and controls (showback/chargeback models/budgets and forecasting/tag strategy and compliance)
- Fulfil Consulting Engagements as lead on the OPEX budgets and OPEX spend.
- Central part of a leading Cloud Optimisation team using AWS developing an MI suite providing timely insight, financial control and improving the unit economics of cloud.
- Deliver Data reporting, Unit economics cloud financial management roadmap.
- Identifying continuous improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with vendor partners whilst actively developing and maintaining strategic IT cost outs and maintaining relationships.
- Identifying additional opportunities within intelligent MI delivery life cycle
- Board level, ensuring all financial information is available to make informed commercial decisions on future plans/projects.
- Oversee Financial Budgeting processes for Cloud Services.
- Proposed chargeback model direct to business, piloting leading application as POC receiving signoff by the business, providing greater transparency to business areas on the cloud bill and their proportional charge.
Delivery:
- Managed risks and issues in line with group targets and facilitated the delivery of strategic review board submissions at both project and programme levels.
- Extract and analyse large scale data within cloud billing and usage, to support colleagues and clients in decision making.
- Lead and contribute to continuous improvement of spend analytics, ensuring it advises engineering and product leads by highlighting meaningful metrics, patterns, and forecasts.
- Identify, establish, and develop strategies with leads in cross-organisational initiatives targeting usage optimisation.
- To serve as a Finance Business Partner to the Demerger programme and providing project finance support and expertise.
- Build sound relationships, consistently work with feedback, and clearly communicate expectations with team members and partners.
Outline Thebes Group:
Thebes Group is a leading UK wide IT infrastructure technology consultancy. We are well-known for our extensive talent pool of highly competent IT professionals and exclusive Academy programmes, which provide a great opportunity to undertake technical training in core disciplines. Thebes work with several leading vendors, Government, financial institutions and insurance companies including investment banks, brokers and hedge funds.
Thebes does IT solutions and services differently from most other IT service providers. As an Assured Outcome Provider (AOP) we have spent fifteen years willingly sharing the client's risk with them by focusing on outputs (ie quality service and solutions and ROI) rather than inputs (ie pricelists and headcount). We do this by fitting our skills, solutions and capabilities to needs, augmenting our staff with enthusiastic professionals from our Academy programme and remaining flexible as our clients' needs change.
Thebes does IT solutions & services differently from most other IT service providers. As an Assured Outcome Provider (AOP) we have spent fifteen years willingly sharing the client's risk with them by focusing on outputs (ie quality service & solutions and ROI) rather than inputs (ie pricelists and headcount). We do this by fitting our skills, solutions & capabilities to needs, augmenting our staff, and enthusiastic professionals from our Academy Programme, whilst remaining flexible as our clients' needs change.
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