Role: Senior FinOps Consultant

Location: Milton Keynes/London (Remote)

Duration: Project Based - Usually 3 months (potential for extension)

Key Essential Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in financial operations, with a strong background in cloud financial management or FinOps
• Expertise in cost optimisation, financial forecasting, and budgeting, especially in cloud-based environments.
• Strong understanding of SaaS, cloud computing, and cloud financial management (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced analytical skills with experience in leveraging data to drive financial decisions.
• Certified FinOps Professional

Desirable Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience in Kubernetes containerisation.
• Configuration Management Database (CMDB) experience.
• Understanding of IT Operations based on ITIL Framework.
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and capacity planning.

Overview:

• You'll be working with a dynamic consultancy who are providing FinOps and TCO project solutions to help their clients optimise and reduce their Cloud spend.
• We're dedicated to delivering exceptional value to our customers, employees, and stakeholders through innovative strategies and efficient operations. As we continue to scale, we are seeking a Senior FinOps Consultant who can analyse spending, make strategic recommendations, develop governance plans, and drive operational efficiency and profitability."
• The Senior FinOps Consultant will be responsible for leading and overseeing all aspects of financial operations, including cloud cost management, financial planning and analysis, budgeting, and strategic financial initiatives. You will work closely with leadership to ensure the client achieves its financial goals while maintaining fiscal responsibility and compliance.
• This role requires a strong background in finance, a keen understanding of modern financial operations (especially in cloud or tech-driven environments). Specific tasks will include developing and delivering FinOps workshops, creating dashboards and reports and analysing Cloud Billing reports.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership:
  • Develop and lead the company's financial project's operations strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
  • Work closely with C-level executives to drive cost optimisation, financial forecasting, and business performance.
  • Establish and execute scalable FinOps frameworks, particularly focusing on cloud financial management and cost optimisation.

• Financial Management:
  • Oversee the entire financial operations life cycle, including billing, invoicing, accounts receivable, and payable.
  • Lead financial planning and analysis (FP&A) efforts, providing insights for decision-making.
  • Manage the budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with company-wide objectives.
  • Collaborate with the engineering and IT teams to manage and optimise cloud usage and costs.
• Cost Optimisation & Cloud FinOps:
  • Implement and drive cloud cost optimisation strategies, ensuring the company is maximizing value from cloud infrastructure investments.
  • Establish benchmarks, KPIs, and reporting metrics to track financial efficiency and operational performance.
  • Drive a culture of cost-awareness and financial accountability across departments, helping teams understand and manage their financial impact.
• Compliance & Risk Management:
  • Ensure all financial operations comply with relevant laws and regulations, including taxation and auditing requirements.
  • Implement financial controls and risk management procedures to safeguard the company's assets and integrity.

Outline Thebes Group:

Thebes Group is a boutique consulting firm that specialises in Cloud Cost Optimisation and FinOps across the entirety of the cloud journey. Using our proprietary ATAITM Framework, we eliminate between 15 - 30%, of waste from organisations' technology spend to enable them to invest in innovation.

We are different from other organisations - we go beyond cost savings. We consider the business, technology, governance and finance dimensions of your technology spend to make the right trade-offs to achieve direct value to your business strategy and enable competitive advantage. Further, we educate and enable your teams to be certified in FinOps and empower your teams to make the changes stick so value is retained