FinOps Lead

Job Title: FinOps Lead

Contract Type: Permanent 

Location: Glasgow, Alderley Edge & Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 5th May 2024

We are currently recruiting a FinOps Lead. This is an exciting role, which is responsible for ensuring we effectively manage costs and risk, within the Tech team at Royal London. You will do this by developing, maintaining, and supporting cloud cost management practices, identifying, and driving cloud cost optimisation and rightsizing opportunities. You will be supporting cloud-enabled teams responsible for their own workloads through education and data-driven insights, and measuring KPIs and controls related to cloud costs.

You will be joining a dynamic and growing team, and have experience within Azure, AWS or GCP. With strong analytical skills, and the ability to work with stakeholders across the group, managing budgets, tracking spend and working on multiple projects. 

The role contributes to our purpose Strengthening the mutual choice for our customers.

About the role

• You will provide FinOps expertise, leadership, direction and assistance to IT leadership, project delivery, technical leads, and engineering teams.
• Manage the full lifecycle of subscriptions/budgets/accounts in line with our standards and process.
• You will monitor and track spend across the organization and acting on projected or actual breaches to ensure budgets are managed. As well as educating and onboarding customers in FinOps processes and responsibilities.
• Work with the Cloud Engineering team to develop automation for gathering, processing, and visualising cost data.
• Work with the Cloud Engineering team to build, maintain, and improve real-time cloud cost and consumption dashboards tailored to audience.
• Fostering innovation in FinOps management: identifying, proposing, and implementing the choice of FinOps tools and processes.

About you

• You will have relevant cloud knowledge (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Proven experience in effective cost management strategies, tools, models, and processes. As well as capability to design and implement FinOps solutions (including cost management and optimisation).
• You will have, strong analytical skills with the ability to gather, analyse and interpret significant amounts of information accurately. As well as excellent communication skills and ability to effectively convey complex ideas tailored appropriately to the audience (from senior leaders to technical experts).
• Solid understanding of the key drivers, concepts, and language that Finance, Procurement, Service Management and Technology teams use day-to-day.
• Experience with using cloud cost management tools (cloud native/3rd party) and data analysis using Excel or advanced analysis tools (e.g., Power BI) to drive actionable insights for cloud customers and senior stakeholders.
• Experience of working with cloud tagging and naming schemes to drive accurate allocation and accountability of cloud spend.

About Royal London

We are the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We have always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging. 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.