Senior FinOps Specialist

As a Cloud Financial Operations Analyst Link Group, you will help collect and analyze data to provide financial insights critical to the success of our Infrastructure and Operations organization, with a focus on cloud.  You will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness for Link Group’s cloud consumption.  This role will provide financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting, consumption analysis including KPIs, showback, analytics and capacity.

• Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, show back, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners.
• Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Analyse, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
• Collaborate with Cost Optimization Engineers to track resource utilization to define and execute relevant cloud commitment plans and to define strategies to re-purpose freed up capacity.
• Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the cloud landscape.
• Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Participate in business case development, cost modelling, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and trade-off exercises.
• Participate in automating, integrating, and maturing the Cloud FinOps processes and data.

Governance & Risk

• Responsible for ensuring Link Group are compliance and adhere to legal and regulatory requirements when it comes to, Privacy, Operational, Data Protection and Information Security risks;
• Support Link Group assurance programs that deliver effective risk management and compliance practice;
• Ensure all server infrastructure complies with Link Group security policies and;
• Ensure audit and compliance are reviewed and complied with and take accountability for any associated corrective actions.

• At least 3 years of experience with Azure (Desired) or AWS
• Expertise with public cloud financial components/concepts, including but not limited to, cost & usage reports (CUR), reserved instances (RIs), savings plans, committed use discounts (CUDs), enterprise discount programs (EDPs), spot pricing, etc.
• Establishing and/or operating cloud cost optimisation initiatives focusing on key levers such as rightsizing, power scheduling, alternate cloud purchasing methods (RIs, savings plans, spot), decommissioning unused resources/services, etc.
• Cloud chargeback and/or showback for business units/projects
• Interrogating cloud billing/cost & usage data to create key cost insights and reports/dashboards using Microsoft Excel or business intelligence/data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Amazon Quicksight, Splunk, or Tableau
• Strong financial/data analysis and reporting skills
• Stakeholder management
• Quality assurance