Finops Assistant - Bristol, United Kingdom - Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group

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Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

End Date

Tuesday 15 August 2023

Salary Range

£41,292 - £45,880

Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

FinOps Assistant

Job Description:

SALARY:
£41,292-£45,880

LOCATION(S): Bristol and/or Manchester

HOURS:
Full-time (35 hours)

WORKING PATTERN:

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
Join our team within Data & Machine Learning (D&ML) and be a key member in optimising our cloud finances

As a FinOps Assistant, you'll be coordinating and providing oversight of Public Cloud finances for the Analytics Platform. You'll detect key areas of waste, optimisation, etc. and advise the consumer teams on best approach and ensure they have visibility of their cloud usage.

Successful FinOps is based on strong collaboration, and in this role, you'll establish positive relationships with the consumer teams, Group Finance and the central Cloud Services FinOps team, to drive optimal results.

Responsibilities:

Maintaining training and guidance to drive an increase in consumers' ability to forecast their cloud spend and ensuring consuming teams provide forecasts in a timely and complete manner
Providing highquality reports for key colleagues to inform budget decisions
Creating and maintaining dashboards to allow consuming teams to manage their cloud spending
Managing and monitoring the consistent use of labelling / tagging to support cloud cost allocation and ensuring sufficient monitoring and alerting is in place to quickly stop unintended spend
Supporting the management of an ongoing recharge model that ensures cloud costs are accounted for and allocated in line with the Group's cost accounting policies
Working closely with the platform support teams, maintain a backlog of optimisation opportunities

ABOUT US
We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us.

The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED
Essential

To be considered for this position, you'll need to demonstrate the below as a minimum:

Hands-on experience of Cloud (GCP) reporting
Working knowledge of cost visualisation tools (e.g. Cloudability) and Google Cloud Pricing Calculator (GCP Calculator)
Experience providing high-quality, exec-level Cloud pricing and cost reports
Previous experience with cloud costing models, forecasting etc. and of working within a consumption-based cloud platforms environment
Ability to create and manage interactive Cloud dashboards and experience with reservation management and cloud FinOps tooling

And any experience of these would be really useful- A formal financial certification / qualification such as FinOps Certified Practitioner- Experience of cross charging internal businesses

ABOUT WORKING FOR US

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%-
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Are you excited by the thought of becoming part of our team? If so, get in touch.

We'd love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe.

So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.

We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.

Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.