Finance Operations Lead - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Royal London Group

Royal London Group
Royal London Group
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Job Title:
Finance Operations Lead


Contract Type:
Permanent


Location:
Alderley Edge or Edinburgh


Working style:
Hybrid 50% home/office based


Closing date: 12th August 2023


The Cloud Centre of Excellence is a set of centralized services and has capability to provide and manage a secure and compliant path for cloud consumption, enable and accelerate cloud adoption, and establish or operate key cloud risks, controls and KPIs including financial operations and team performance.

We are currently recruiting an exciting new role within the team for FinOps Lead. This role is responsible for ensuring we effectively manage costs and cost-risk in dynamic cloud consumption at Royal London.

They will do this by developing, maintaining, and supporting cloud cost management practices, identifying, and driving cloud cost optimization and rightsizing opportunities, supporting cloud-enabled teams responsible for their own workloads through education and data-driven insights, and managing KPIs and controls related to cloud costs.

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

About the role

You will provide FinOps expertise, 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 Royal London and acting on projected or actual breaches to ensure budgets are managed.

You will lead education and onboarding of technology teams in FinOps processes and responsibilities.
Work within the Cloud Engineering team to develop automation for gathering, processing, and visualising cost data.

Work within 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 optimization). You will have strong analytical skills with the ability to gather, analyse and interpret significant amounts of information accurately. You will have excellent communication skills and ability to effectively convey complex ideas tailored appropriately to the audience. 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.

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