FinOps Specialist - Flutter Functions, Hybrid & Remote

Description

Role overview:

Flutter Technology are recruiting a FinOps Analyst to bridge the gap between finance, operations, and cloud engineering teams to ensure cost-efficient and scalable cloud usage. You will play a critical role in managing cloud expenditures, optimizing cloud investments, and driving financial accountability across teams in our greenfield AWS cloud platform, that underpins services consumed by the groups well-known betting brands.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the FinOps processes & procedures implemented across our AWS Cloud Platform. As a member of our “Cloud Enablement” function, you will empower teams to adopt cloud services efficiently, securely, and in alignment with business objectives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

The right candidate will have experience working with enterprise organisations developing & maturing their FinOps practices.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Monitoring cloud usage and spending data to identify cost-saving opportunities

• Lead and contribute towards our FinOps Community of Practice

• Developing and implementing strategies to optimize cloud costs

• Collaborating with finance, operations, and technology teams to drive cost optimization initiatives

• Managing & monitoring cloud finance budgets

• Recommending changes to cloud service usage, pricing models, and purchasing options

• Developing and maintaining financial models to forecast and track cloud costs

• BAU financial Cloud management

• Creating reports and dashboards to track and communicate cloud cost optimization efforts to stakeholders

• Collaborating with other divisional FinOps teams to promote shared & best practices

Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:

• Cloud computing expertise: A strong understanding of AWS cloud computing services, including cloud infrastructure, software, and platform as a service (IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS)

• Financial management skills: Knowledge of financial management principles and experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, including experience in financial modelling and cost analysis

• Data analysis skills: Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques, including data visualization, statistical analysis, and machine learning

• Collaboration and communication skills: Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential to work closely with cross-functional teams, including finance, procurement, operations, technology and our AWS account team, to achieve cost optimization goals

• Experience with FinOps practices: Experience implementing and maintaining FinOps practices and methodologies, including knowledge of cost optimization frameworks such as AWS Well-Architected Framework, and experience using FinOps tools and platforms

• Knowledge of industry regulations: Familiarity with industry regulations such as GDPR and SOX and their impact on FinOps procedures & processes

• Cloud Governance: Understanding of policies and best practices for cloud governance and compliance

Experience:

• Experience with AWS optimisation & FinOps tooling such as Cost Explorer, QuickSight CID & AWS Trusted Advisor

• Familiarity with AWS pricing models, cost optimization strategies, and billing systems

• Proficiency in data analytics & BI tools such as Excel & QuickSight

• Basic knowledge of scripting & coding languages

• Experience with enterprise financial systems

• Experience in creating, tracking, and optimizing budgets for IT and cloud spend

• Knowledge of cost allocation methods and showback/chargeback models in a cloud environment

• Experience identifying and implementing cost-saving opportunities such as, right-sizing, savings plans, reserved and spot instances

• Experience working cross-functionally with finance, IT, and engineering teams to align goals

• Experience of vendor management, ideally including AWS

Qualifications

• English