FinOps Assistant Bristol, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Bristol, England
41292 - 45880 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Tuesday 15 August 2023
Salary Range
£41,292 - £45,880Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
FinOps Assistant
Job Description
SALARY: £41,292-£45,880
LOCATION(S): Bristol and/or Manchester
HOURS: Full-time (35 hours)
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
Join our team within Data & Machine Learning (D&ML) and be a key member in optimising our cloud finances!
As a FinOps Assistant, you'll be coordinating and providing oversight of Public Cloud finances for the Analytics Platform. You'll detect key areas of waste, optimisation, etc. and advise the consumer teams on best approach and ensure they have visibility of their cloud usage.
Successful FinOps is based on strong collaboration, and in this role, you'll establish positive relationships with the consumer teams, Group Finance and the central Cloud Services FinOps team, to drive optimal results.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining training and guidance to drive an increase in consumers’ ability to forecast their cloud spend and ensuring consuming teams provide forecasts in a timely and complete manner
- Providing high-quality reports for key colleagues to inform budget decisions
- Creating and maintaining dashboards to allow consuming teams to manage their cloud spending
- Managing and monitoring the consistent use of labelling / tagging to support cloud cost allocation and ensuring sufficient monitoring and alerting is in place to quickly stop unintended spend
- Supporting the management of an ongoing re-charge model that ensures cloud costs are accounted for and allocated in line with the Group’s cost accounting policies
- Working closely with the platform support teams, maintain a backlog of optimisation opportunities
ABOUT US
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
Essential
To be considered for this position, you'll need to demonstrate the below as a minimum:
- Hands-on experience of Cloud (GCP) reporting
- Working knowledge of cost visualisation tools (e.g. Cloudability) and Google Cloud Pricing Calculator (GCP Calculator)
- Experience providing high-quality, exec-level Cloud pricing and cost reports
- Previous experience with cloud costing models, forecasting etc. and of working within a consumption-based cloud platforms environment
- Ability to create and manage interactive Cloud dashboards and experience with reservation management and cloud FinOps tooling
And any experience of these would be really useful
- A formal financial certification / qualification such as FinOps Certified Practitioner
- Experience of cross charging internal businesses
ABOUT WORKING FOR US
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Are you excited by the thought of becoming part of our team? If so, get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
