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S&CGN – Tech Strategy & Advisory – Cloud Finops – Consultant

Bring your best skills forward to excel at the role:

  • Required to apply Cloud Platform knowledge, deep understanding of FinOps and FinOps tools to guide the design and delivery of Cloud Financial Management Models including cost management and budgeting/ forecasting processes, capability structure and governance models.
  • Demonstrate good analytical skills to understand client’s ‘as-is’ state and propose cloud strategy
  • Work with clients to understand their business needs and develop solutions that meet those needs
  • Develop and implement strategies for clients to manage and optimize costs
  • Able to identify cost overheads, value realization drivers and guide implementation of showback/ chargeback and value realization drivers
  • Analyzing cloud usage data to develop and implement cost saving strategies such as pricing/usage optimizations.
  • Working with businesses to develop cloud budgeting and forecasting plans.
  • Educating businesses about cloud computing costs and best practices.
  • Drive in-depth knowledge and understanding of key value drivers of a business and how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement.
  • Maximize your capacity to bring value-added thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market
  • Lead proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and define the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains
  • Use your problem-solving and critical thinking skills to effectively manage diverse projects, delivering against tight deadlines in a fast paced and demanding environment
  • Develop communication and client handling skills to develop, manage and deepen relationships with key stakeholders
  • Leverage team building skills to collaborate, work and motivate teams with diverse skills and experience to achieve goals
  • Build on leadership skills along with strong communication, problem solving, organizational and delegation skills to nurture and inspire team members
  • Manage multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate, and implement programs.
  • Keep up-to-date on the latest FinOps trends and accordingly develop our offerings and assets
  • Mentor and develop our people

Qualifications

Your experience counts!

  • MBA from a tier 1 institute (Preferred)
  • Your prior experience in one or more of the following is important –
    • Cloud Assessment: Cloud readiness maturity assessment, planning and assessment of cloud solutions/platforms, application assessment and migration planning, cloud operating model design, TCO and platform vendor evaluation
    • Cloud Architecture: Experience with private, public and hybrid cloud architectures, pros/cons, Microservices architecture and Hybrid cloud integration architecture
    • Cloud-native application development, DevOps and data integration across and within cloud platform
    • Cloud Migration: Delivering cloud migration roadmaps and managing execution from a project management perspective.
    • Cloud Deployment across various hyper-scaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and models (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS), containers and virtualization platforms (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.)
  • Help solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment
  • Oversee the production and implementation of solutions covering multiple cloud technologies, associated Infrastructure / application architecture, development and operating models
  • Deep experience within one or more of the following Industries: Banking, Capital Markets, Telecom, Media, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Retail or Consumer Goods
  • Experience in working with large US and UK&I clients (Preferred)
  • Experience with Cloud CSP billing and cost management portals
  • Certifications – FinOps Certified Practitioner, Cloud Architect Certified (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

To request a modification to this listing please email jobs@finops.org

  • Company: Accenture
  • Published: 16th August 2024
  • Closing Date: 16th October 2024
  • Country: India
  • Type: Full-time
  • Seniority: Mid-level Contributor
  • FinOps Certifications Required: Certified Practitioner