NatWest Group
Key Responsibilities
- Provide support to ensure the financial health of the cloud platform, covering invoicing, chargeback, and reporting.
- Support the cloud finance platform’s operational stability and technology performance, including maintaining platform utilities and tools.
- Learn new skills in a constantly evolving environment, working closely with feature teams to enhance development.
- Provide input to and support team activities to maintain platform integrity aligned with technical roadmaps and change demands.
- Support the delivery of a robust cloud financial management service for relevant infrastructure platforms.
- Contribute to delivering customer outcomes, innovation, and early learning by contributing to testing products and services.
- Perform regular data analysis of Cloud consumption to identify trends, usage spikes, and wastage removal for maximized ROI.
- Provide customized cloud reporting and dashboards to internal stakeholders for insightful cost analysis of business lines, applications, or services.
- Contribute to cost optimization opportunities, including rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, wastage removal, and technology upgrades.
- Own regular cost optimization forums with key stakeholders to maximize business value.
- Contribute to the cloud budget model, reporting actual cost vs. budget, and cost tagging compliance.
- Create and track KPIs for Cloud FinOps effectiveness and implement improvements.
Skills and Expertise
- Strong communication skills to clearly convey complex technical concepts to colleagues and management.
- Solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner certification is essential; other relevant cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or FinOps certifications are advantageous.
- Experience with Cloudability, PowerBI, Tableau, or AWS QuickSight is beneficial.
- Experience in an analytics role or with an analytics team.
- Experience managing on-premise data centers and private clouds is desirable.
- Proven experience in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Proficiency with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform cost management tools.
- Comprehensive knowledge of cloud services, pricing structures, and billing on public cloud.
- Experience with data analysis, financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, and financial reporting in a large enterprise environment.
- Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills.