Senior FinOps Advisor

THIS ROLE IS OPEN ONLY FOR NORDCLOUD EMPLOYEES. WE DO NOT CONSIDER REFERRALS OF EXTERNAL CANDIDATES.

Currently, we are looking for a Senior FinOps Advisor to join our team in Poland, Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, the UK.

Your daily responsibilities:

• Become an advisor to CxOs in the Customer organization, establish trust, and close working relationships
• Support our Customers in defining their cloud strategy, aligning it with the business goals. Analyze and adjust their FinOps related cloud governance processes accordingly
• Evangelize the cloud operating model, advise on the procurement process and consumption methods (e.g. contracting, OPEX vs CAPEX)
• Build and maintain cloud usage visibility, providing summaries and detailed usage statistics for resources across the Customer’s public clouds
• Work closely with financial and billing teams on budgets, forecasts, show backs, and chargebacks
• Provide early intervention advice to consumers of the services: identify opportunities to optimize, offer actionable insights on cost avoidance and cost reduction
• Assist the Customer with compute savings plans and reserved instance purchase strategies
• Create operational metrics and introduce KPIs to support and validate recommendations, assist with following up with the necessary stakeholders (e.g. designing and introducing responsibility matrices)
• Lead regular cadence calls to keep stakeholders informed, providing insights on findings and suggested courses of action
• Create and maintain external (Customer) and internal (Nordcloud) documentation on adopted FinOps and cost optimization processes, share best practices and lessons learned

Your key skills:

• Prior experience in a similar role, ideally with another consultancy company
• Experience with business process optimization, ability to quantify the monetary impacts of bottlenecks, and recommended changes
• Experience reporting, forecasting, and communicating costs related to technology
• Conceptual knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware)
• AWS and/or Azure certifications
• Working knowledge of FinOps practices
• Strong ability to analyze and interpret data and provide insights
• Stakeholder management, excellent oral and written communication skills, experience presenting at all hierarchical levels
• Ability to communicate at all levels within an organization and influence leadership
• A clear understanding of billing and metering for cloud platforms, including the impact of usage patterns on the total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Business finance knowledge
• Team Leadership or management experience
• Ability to work with reduced supervision, making decisions based upon priorities, schedules, and an understanding of business initiatives
• Fluent communication skills in English

We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We value your growth potential and enthusiasm!

Please read Nordcloud's Internal Move Policy before applying.

Recruiter: Paulina Lewkiewicz
Hiring Manager: Simon Adams