Cloud Cost Management Specialist

1 month ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Allen & Overy Full time
Job Title: Cloud Cost Management Specialist

About the Role:

We are seeking a skilled Cloud Cost Management Specialist to join our Technology Services department at Allen & Overy. As a key member of our IT Service Management team, you will be responsible for defining, implementing, and evolving our FinOps function to ensure the cost-effectiveness of our cloud operating model.

Key Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the FinOps strategy and governance processes to make process efficiencies while ensuring the level of commercial risk and exposure is minimised.
- Be a trusted advisor for FinOps, ensuring that cloud services and resources are optimised to maximise the value of our investment in cloud technologies.
- Conduct regular audits across the cloud platform to ensure compliance with key FinOps processes (optimisation, tagging etc).
- Apply knowledge of cloud contracting, commitment, and economics to work with Procurement and In-House Legal teams to negotiate cloud contracts to improve our position.
- Conduct regular cloud account administration to monitor usage, manage budgets, and ensure compliance with financial policies and cloud best practice.
- Identify opportunities to leverage reserved instances, savings plans, and other cost-saving mechanisms.
- Conduct reconciliations of cloud provider invoicing to ensure accurate billing and financial reporting.
- Collaborate with Finance and IT teams to establish cloud budgets and develop and maintain accurate forecasts based on usage patterns.
- Optimise cloud costs by identifying opportunities to reduce costs, optimise usage, and negotiate contracts with cloud providers, without compromising operational performance.
- Work closely with engineering and development teams to align infrastructure to our cloud cost goals.
- Develop and enforce FinOps policies and best practices to ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal policies.
- Develop effective financial reporting and conduct detailed data analysis to provide insights into cloud usage, costs, and performance for Executives, Senior Management, Product Owners, and Cloud Engineers.

Requirements:

- Practical experience in a dedicated FinOps role, ideally within the professional services sector.
- Proven experience of managing cloud cost consumption for one of the big three public cloud providers (Microsoft, AWS, GCP).
- Proven experience of delivering FinOps projects and initiatives.
- Good understanding of cloud cost management, optimisation techniques, and billing for cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of cloud contracting, commitment, licensing models, and cloud strategies.
- Proven experience of financial modelling and data analysis principles, collating information from various sources.
- Experience with cloud cost management tools.
- Highly motivated, self-starter, who will undertake all activities to the highest professional standards.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both orally and written.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities working across functions or projects as required.
- High level of personal credibility, impact, and influence with a proven ability to work effectively and persuasively at all levels of the business.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships at all levels across the firm.
- Experience of working in a global environment across international locations with an appreciation of multiple cultures.

About Us:

Allen & Overy is a global industry-leading law firm with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

What We Offer:

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Join Our Team:

If you are a motivated and experienced professional looking for a new challenge, please submit your application. We look forward to hearing from you.

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