Finops and Optimization Lead - London, United Kingdom - Informa Global Support

Informa Global Support
Informa Global Support
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Here in Informa Group Technology we are redesigning the way we build our environments in the Cloud.

This is primarily a modernization activity designed to better fit the demands of a business that is changing and has set a direction to digitize a considerable number of its products and services.

Informa is a highly federated organization, and we have multiple stakeholders that we need to keep in the loop, and ensure that we are communicating strategies, plans, changes, and timelines effectively.

This is a brand-new role within the business and Informa is seeking a FinOps and Optimisation lead.

This is a leadership role within a fantastic organisation with a great culture and will serve as the catalyst for delivering a consistent approach to effectively managing our resources within the cloud, delivering optimised processes and automation as well as gaining deep insights into our investment within AWS, and Azure environments.


Job Description:


Working closely with Finance, and business stakeholders, the primary purpose of this high-profile role is to ensure that the Informa divisions are using cloud resources effectively, eliminating unnecessary spend, investing in the right services.

and obtaining clear visibility on usage.

This will involve the management of tooling to assist with cost alignment, and identification of saving opportunities, as well as creating a FinOps guild to provide a vehicle for delivering best practice and consistency.


Qualifications:

Advantageous

  • AWS or Cloud vendor accreditations.
FinOps - Practitioner.

Any process optimization or process engineering qualifications.

Additional Information

This is a brand-new role within the business and Informa is seeking a FinOps and Optimisation lead.

This is a leadership role within a fantastic organisation with a great culture and will serve as the catalyst for delivering a consistent approach to effectively managing our resources within the cloud, delivering optimised processes and automation as well as gaining deep insights into our investment within AWS, and Azure environments.


Working closely with Finance, and business stakeholders, the primary purpose of this high-profile role is to ensure that the Informa divisions are using cloud resources effectively, eliminating unnecessary spend, investing in the right services.

and obtaining clear visibility on usage.

This will involve the management of tooling to assist with cost alignment, and identification of saving opportunities, as well as creating a FinOps guild to provide a vehicle for delivering best practice and consistency.

Key Deliverables.

  • Building, and maturing a FinOps practice that can optimise investment and identify opportunities for managing costs positively.
  • Working with various engineering and Finance teams to deliver positive influence in relation to operational and project Capex.
  • Agreeing, forecasting, and tracking cloud expenditure plans in collaboration with each of the divisions, operating at a platform and product level where necessary
  • This will include proposing and managing reservations, and savings plans.
  • Using your previous experience to ensure that cost control has an influence over the referencebased architectures used within Informa, and that tools, techniques, and best practices are applied during project execution to help to manage costs within forecasts.
  • Building a network of likeminded individuals
  • FinOps champions across the group divisions to ensure that identified opportunities are executed, and that investment decisions are well managed in line with forecasted goals. You will be adept and gaining stakeholder buy in to cost management principles and influencing key investment decisions in a positive way.
  • Configuring tooling and workflows to ensure that overspend is flagged, opportunities for savings are tracked and executed, and providing personabased reporting to show progress at a divisional and product level.
  • Providing senior stakeholders with the opportunity to understand where they can make changes to maximise their return on investment within the cloud.
  • Identifying gaps in process, finding opportunities to optimise the way we work in Technology at Informa to ensure we modernise, measure, and improve.
  • Helping to build an ecosystem of tools and integrations that deliver an efficient service management framework for the Informa technical teams.
  • Developing, documenting, and sharing best practices, and techniques that can be used to optimise operational efficiencies, being the advocate for adoption of tooling and processes.
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