Cloud FinOps Specialist – Cover role
Job Description
Are you passionate about cloud finance management and about enabling colleagues in the LEGO Group to make value-based decisions?
Bring your experience, learning mentality and can-do-attitude to our FinOps area and join a knowledgeable and fun team!
Cloud is a key strategic focus for the digital organization at the LEGO Group, and we are looking for a new colleague to join this exciting journey and evolve our cloud financial management services.
We are looking for a FinOps specialist to help us operate and mature our FinOps capability during an 11-month cover starting from February 2025. We help our LEGO® engineers accelerate financially responsible cloud usage in their daily tasks and improve efficiency.
The FinOps capability is centrally placed in IT to affect cloud governance and policy. We are seeing growth of the Cloud platform and are looking to deliver the best FinOps services for our engineering colleagues, finance, and management.
Core Responsibilities
Our Cloud FinOps function focuses primarily on helping other teams in our digital organization adopt and use cloud responsibly using FinOps governance, models, and tools. As a FinOps specialist you will:
- Make recommendations for and make our Cloud usage commitments across AWS and Azure Cloud services based on monthly usage analyses and ensuring approval from finance.
- Own and implement our commitments strategy in collaboration with your FinOps colleagues.
- Engage with product teams and advise to help rightsize Cloud usage together with FinOps colleagues.
- Support finance and product teams with budgets, forecasts, and variance analyses together with FinOps colleagues.
- Identify and facilitate opportunities to optimize for value-based decision-making and make plans to realize savings.
- Analyse, report, and produce meaningful and practical insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools.
- Contribute to a fluent and efficient procurement process including creating purchase orders (PO’s).
- Proactively improve processes and practices.
- Liaise with external vendors and host frequent data-driven vendor meetings in close collaboration with internal colleagues.
Play your part in our team succeeding
Our FinOps team consists of 5 team members and a Lead Engineer who sets our direction. We have a very open and honest, collaborative, and fun atmosphere with a high degree of integrity. We always strive to deliver high quality transparency and advice and are passionate about creating a healthy culture.
Do you have what it takes?
To succeed in this role, you most likely have a financial, IT, procurement and/or data background. You may have financial experience working with FinOps practices and Cloud providers or you are data or financially savvy and want to get into the exciting world of cloud financial management services.
As a FinOps Specialist, you:
- are highly organized, meticulous and diligent.
- can break down large amounts of data, find anomalies and trends.
- have experience with PowerBI and cloud knowledge would be a plus.
- get energy from a mix of deep diving into data and numbers and collaborating with various internal and external partners.
- are a cool and fun person to be around and you are passionate about what you do!
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here is what you can expect:
Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.
Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.
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