Cloud Finance Operations Manager

Company: Canada Life UK Adviser Published: 18th January 2023 Closing Date: 27th February 2023

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Job Purpose

The Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) is a newly established area of Canada Life, responsible for managing the overall Cloud Environment for the migration of existing applications and build of any new applications. The CCoE contains 6x Functions, ensuring that the environment is available, stable, secure, resilient and remains compliant with all organisational policies and standards.

The Cloud Business Office (CBO) Function is responsible for managing the Business Office and FinOps related services in the Cloud environment, specifically:

• Cloud Financial Portfolio Management & Performance Reporting
• Cloud Cost Split & Reconciliation
• Billing Hierarchy Definition
• Billing, Tagging Strategy & Enablement
• Cloud Cost Analysis & Optimisation (reserved instances etc)
• Cloud Procurement Management
• Cloud Cost Forecasting & Actuals
• Cloud CoE and Shared Services Pricing Model

What you will do

The FinOps Manager is responsible for performing key FinOps related activities in the CBO Function. The role of the FinOps Manager is to contribute to enabling the vision of a best-in-class FinOps practice and cost management services for Cloud.

This is an opportunity to be part of the new CBO Function.

Duties and Responsibilities 

The role holder will be expected to have credible experience (5-8yrs) in Finance and be familiar with financial aspects of IT operating environments. They may have previously worked in Finance as a Finance Analyst or Finance Manager for Technology or a FinOps Manager for Cloud. The role holder should ideally have hands on Cloud / FinOps experience but should at a minimum be passionate about striving for best-in-class FinOps and keep up to date with the latest developments in the Cloud and Finance industry.

Specific objectives are:

• Carry out duties listed in the CBO Operating Model, ensuring there is adequate understanding and accountability for CBO and FinOps related activities
• Maintain the FinOps related artefacts, specifically the FinOps dashboards, policies, templates and standards, ensuring all are kept up to date and accurate
• Provide FinOps advisory and input into the CBO Function and wider CCoE Work with the wider CCoE team to ensure that Cloud Consumers have met adoption pre-requisites and are able to fund consumption (inc SaaS)
• Act as an active member of the Cloud community both internally and externally
• Act as a mentor and advisor to more junior members of the organisation
• Contribute to the delivery of CBO and FinOps related OKR’s and KPI’s
• Act as a FinOps Subject Matter Expert (SME) to leaders in CCoE and wider Canada Life, including Product Owners and Application Leads, providing insight and advice on FinOps related matters
• Continue to improve FinOps and overall cost management and optimisation strategies

Desired Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Experience consulting in Cloud Advisory & IT Financial Services or Operational Experience with Cloud Cost Governance within an IT Organization
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills and proven relationship builder
• Excellent communication skills at executive level
• A natural leader, with experience of leading or coaching others
• Strong knowledge and experience technical understanding of cloud migrations
• Strong technical analytical skills, specifically FinOps and finance skills, and an eye for detail
• Experience with PowerBI tooling strongly preferred
• Able to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience, emphasising key points for decisions and understanding
• Has a deep understanding of Cloud FinOps Strategy and FinOps tools and processes, including consumption models and reporting, dashboarding, FinOps governance
• Can act independently with initiative and decisiveness, and is aware of when to escalate issues