Job Description
• Overall responsibility for proactively monitoring the budgets and costs of cloud platforms in support of satisfying the best possible outcome for different environments;
• Determine and predict budgets associated with current and future cloud workloads;
• Review cloud utilization and make recommendations on licensing and subscription models PAYG, reserved instance strategy, and proposed discounts for optimization;
• Generate standard reporting and complete ad hoc analyses designed to monitor cloud costs, security, usage and identify inconsistent consumption against expected models;
• Drive awareness of cost trending, and provide these reports to each respective team consuming cloud services to encourage engagement;
• Present cost analysis to executive leadership on a daily, weekly, monthly basis as required;
• Implement governance standards, including resource tagging, account structure, provisioning, permissions and access and auto shutdown polices;
• Configure and monitoring alerting processes on our cloud platform relating to budgets and thresholds in costs and detect unexpected spikes in consumption in near real time;
• Conduct monthly cross-organizational meetings with Engineering, and Finance to identify and action potential cost optimization;
• Support development teams and platform engineers to implement optimisations recommendations on their cloud resources;
Experience And Skills
• An excellent understanding and practical experience in the role of Cloud Cost Optimisation
• A minimum years of experience in the role of cloud cost optimisation in a similar organisation ideally in a leadership position;
• Knowledge of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle), including cloud architecture, networking, cloud infrastructure and cloud security concepts and best practices, with 2 years of practical experience in at least one cloud provider;
• Experience of managing cloud cost budgets in excess of $3 million per year.
• Excellent understanding and practical experience of the major cloud provider's consumption and pricing options, cost principles, cost drivers and licencing;
• Experienced in a number of native tools (Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer) as well as exposure to a third party tools such as Apptio, Cloudhealth, Cloudcheckr;
• experience creating reports in PowerBI, Excel, and or cloud-native costing tools;
• Experience with large enterprise environments;
• Good financial background e.g., creating ROI, TCO, and cost optimization strategies.
• 3rd Level Degree in Finance or IT or analytics Discipline or similar;Strong MS Office skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• certification in Finops Certified Practitioner (FCOP) or similar is desirable.
What You Will Get In Return
• A high level of visibility within a large organisation on an upwards trajectory;
• Opportunity to work with a diverse, agile and global team;
• Exposure to all aspects of the business and cross-jurisdiction;
• The opportunity to innovate, bring discipline to brand activity and really make a difference;
• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business;
• Work for a fast developing and one of the world leading independent fund administrators;
• Opportunities for professional development;
• Positive and hospitable work environment;
• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, ****** orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependents, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision are made on the basis of skills, qualifications and experiences.
We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.
For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please visit our CSR page.
If you are looking to take that next step in your career and are ready to work for a high performing organisation, alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, please submit your application (with your CV, cover letter and salary’s expectations) to our dedicated email address: [email protected]
Posting date: 04/08/22
PID 6717
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Cloud Cost Optimisation Analyst position is now open for candidates interested in the Accountant Jobs sector. This role in Mumbai offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Accountant Jobs is a plus.
