Referment
FinOps Lead (9796FB2)
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Referment is working with a growing financial technology business to hire a FinOps Lead to establish and own its cloud financial management capability.
As the company's cloud platform continues to scale, you'll sit at the intersection of Engineering, Finance and Product, taking ownership of cloud cost visibility, optimisation, forecasting and governance.
This is a hands-on role for someone who understands both the technical and commercial aspects of AWS and can help engineering teams make better decisions around cloud consumption.
The Role
You'll Be Responsible For
- Owning cloud cost management and optimisation across the organisation.
- Monitoring AWS consumption and identifying opportunities to reduce unnecessary spend.
- Developing cost allocation and tagging standards.
- Implementing showback and chargeback models.
- Managing Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and other cloud commercial commitments.
- Partnering with Engineering and Finance on cloud forecasting and investment decisions.
- Establishing FinOps governance, reporting and processes.
- Introducing and managing cloud cost-management tooling.
- Providing teams with greater visibility and accountability around cloud consumption.
- Embedding FinOps best practices across the organisation.
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What We're Looking For
You'll Need
- Proven experience managing significant cloud spend within AWS or another large-scale public cloud environment.
- Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience identifying and delivering meaningful cloud cost savings.
- Good knowledge of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and cloud pricing models.
- Experience with FinOps or cloud cost-management tooling.
- Strong understanding of tagging and cost allocation.
- Experience implementing showback and/or chargeback frameworks.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with cloud consumption and financial data.
- The ability to work effectively across Engineering, Finance and Product.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Previous experience establishing or significantly improving a FinOps capability within a scaling technology organisation would be particularly valuable.
This could suit a FinOps Lead, FinOps Manager, Cloud FinOps Manager, Cloud Cost Optimisation Lead, Cloud Economics Manager or Senior FinOps Analyst ready to take greater ownership.
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