Lead FinOps

About the job

Working at BRS is joining a multicultural team that moves as one. It’s also a place where your individual ideas, perspectives, and input count. You’ll be given the freedom and autonomy you need to do impactful work, supported by a team that cares about your well – being, growth and work/life balance. It’s the agility you’d expect from a fast-growing small business, with the stability that only a globally renowned powerhouse like the Sodexo Group can offer. Put a part of yourself into the future of employee benefits and meaningfully contribute to lives and communities worldwide.

HAPPY TO WORK:

A meaningful job: build the future of employee benefits and contribute to the quality of life at work for others, you will impact positively local communities too. It counts!

An attractive offer: grow with us, competitive salary, multiple benefits (meal tickets, health insurance, etc…), parental benefits, internal events, and more!

A great culture: we respect and care authentically about our people, we embrace work life balance, new ideas and we have a lot of fun!

🚀 Your next challenge

The Lead FinOps for Sodexo Benefits and Rewards entity will be responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining FinOps practice, policies, procedures and strategy including cost management best practices across all the Sodexo Benefits and Rewards entity.

He/She will support all Cloud stakeholders to understand their costs and align their Cloud usage with the Business expectations to maximize the value created. He/She will also facilitate new FinOps culture specially around Cloud solutions.

The Lead FinOps role is key, strongly relational.

He/She will be in contact with Cloud technical teams as well as Application owners, project leaders, customer support teams, financial teams and Cloud Regional Partners. This role will report to Global Director of Foundations & Platforms and will cooperate with the FinOps community, fully integrated with the Sodexo FinOps strategy.

You will help collecting and analysing data to provide financial insights critical to the success of our Foundations and Platforms organization, with a heavy focus on cloud.

You will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness for PPL’s cloud consumption.

This role will provide financial modelling, budgeting, and forecasting, consumption analysis including KPIs, showback, analytics and capacity.

The ideal candidate will thrive in becoming an expert in Cloud optimization and providing value by helping Sodexo Benefits and Rewards to save money and demonstrate the ROI our Cloud resources.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The FinOps Lead will have the following Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to support Global & regional Projects to propose FinOps optimizations during Design phase as well as during RUN phase. He/she will challenge application Tiering, sizing, Azure services selection and licenses mode to align business expectation with the Azure services, identifying and proposing cost optimizations creating value for the Business
• Support new FinOps patterns and push for continuous improvement of FinOps practices in Sodexo
• Contribute to validation and usage of FinOps Reporting & Tooling
• Contribute to the improvement of FinOps efficiency in Project and RUN Processes by sharing difficulties and potential optimizations.
• Report his activity into proposed tools (Azure DevOps…)
• Create and document FinOps best practices aligned with Sodexo strategy to ensure proper training/awareness for the cloud engineers, cloud architects and developers community

Additionally, the Lead FinOps will be responsible for the following points:

• Be the main point of contact globally for FinOps discussions and assessment on global/regional platforms
• Collaborate with architecture, finance, develop
• Support end to end financial control on Foundations & Platforms area (licencing on cloud and SaaS services)
• Process engineering to establish new processes and improve existing processes with a metrics driven approach
• Building and promoting financial observability as well as optimization patterns
• Creating monthly dashboards reporting the impacts of the FinOps practices

🌟 You’re a match

Soft Skills

• Stress and Priority Management
• Team Collaboration Skills with ability to work with teams remotely
• Client Focus / Customer Satisfaction
• Adaptability on Multi-Cultural Environnent
• Project Management Skills is a Plus
• Able to challenge the status quo and to work in a changing environment
• Strong influencing skills
• Quick decision maker
• Fundamentals in Agile methodologies
• Financial awareness

Language Skills : English (Mandatory), French or Spanish is a Plus

• Willingness to travel up to 25%

3rd Party Supplier Management

• Relationship Management
• Contract Management

Knowledge / Experience:

• +5 years’ experience in IT
• +2 years involved in FinOps role
• +5 years of experience related to infrastructure management (virtualization, infrastructure, migrations and maintenance)
• Experienced with cloud budget management process, cloud cost analytics and cloud cost optimization
• Experience in process engineering to establish new processes and improve existing processes with a metrics driven approach
• Azure Cloud fundamentals Background
• Azure Services knowledge
• Excel
• Azure DevOps (Plus)

🔎 To get this challenge

• Video call with Anna IACONO, global talent acquisition expert at Sodexo Benefits&Rewards

• Video call with

🏅 Your team

Ignacio ZAMORANO, Global Platforms&Foundations Director

📍 Your Location

Spain

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