ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE YOU’LL NEED

• Strong proficiency in analysing, optimising, and implementing cost-saving measures
• Outstanding communication skills that go beyond “tech talk” – the ability to translate complex IT matters to those without an IT background
• Ability to communicate complex subjects and set of data, simply to enable decision making
• Strong collaboration, establish positive relationships with the Product teams, Commercial Finance, Architecture and procurement teams, to drive best ways of working
• Demonstrable experience of Cloud Cost reporting and tools to support reporting
• A working knowledge of cost visualisation tools
• Previous experience with cloud costing models, forecasting etc. and of working within a consumption-based cloud platform environment
• Experience of using BI / FinOps tools to interrogate data
• Awareness of Cloud service providers (ideally AWS and GCP)

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE YOU MAY HAVE

• FinOps Practitioner certified
• Financial knowledge of different types of spend (e.g. Capex, Revex and Opex)
• Passion for driving down costs

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the FinOps Analyst, you will deliver key data-driven insights & recommendations enabling Tech Cost Optimisation and business Tech cost / investment decision making. You will be responsible for the day-to-day detection of key areas of waste, optimisation, overspend and utilisation rates. You will be accountable for the following: Analysing reporting outputs (eg optimisation opportunities) and driving cost benefits Producing Bill of IT reports for key stakeholders with findings and recommendations Monitoring compliance within product teams / engineering to ensure they are following FinOps standards, processes and controls Driving an increase in consumers’ ability to forecast their cloud spend accurately Providing teams with insight into their cloud costs, utilisation and optimisation recommendations You will also have a key input into decisions on Cloud spend governance and cost optimisation practices. You will have knowledge in lean and agile techniques and will utilise new and innovative tools, methods and techniques to optimise delivery of Value to the Partnership. Your role is crucial to the delivery of the Partnership’s Business and Technology Strategies. Through your Profession you will have the opportunity to develop and stretch personally and professionally to achieve your potential. The Partnership supports agile and flexible working practices, such as when, where and how we work. We have several different ways to work flexibly, including part-time, flexible or compressed hours, and job sharing. Head office areas also support a blended working approach. We celebrate diversity and inclusion in the John Lewis Partnership and we are committed to becoming the UK’s most inclusive business, reflecting and connecting with the diverse communities that we serve.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Create and oversee a cloud billing dashboard to track, manage and optimise cloud costs and Reserved Instance purchases.
Implementation and management of an ongoing Show back model that ensures cloud costs are accounted for and allocated in line with the Partnership’s cost accounting policies.
Perform consumption analysis to define and execute reserved instances and savings plans in accordance with Procurement and Product teams.
In addition to cloud costs, utilise and adopt FinOps processes and best practice to better understand non Cloud costs.
Collaborate with stakeholders and internal teams to establish well-defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Support the FinOps Lead in setting and reviewing FinOPs KPIs
Regular production of MI to enable consumers to have accountability for their financial performance and to help identify waste, utilisation, potential areas of optimisation.
Provide input and insights into waste, opportunities and optimisations for Business/Technology leaders
Ability to showback ‘bill of IT’ to business / and product team owners
Provide visibility of cloud usage costs to product teams, so they are empowered to optimise their applications workloads to optimise trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality
Providing overviews of how much consumers are spending in the cloud in order to help consumers track and lead on financial commitments / budgets
Uphold the consistent use of labelling / tagging to support cloud cost allocation in accordance with the product hierarchy as defined by Architecture
Collaborate with technology teams to incorporate cost management best practices into cloud platforms via tagging, alerting and configurations that support financial monitoring of cloud platforms and quickly stops unintended spend.
Interprets the financial data, and explains it to relevant their teams (Product Teams, Finance, Leadership, etc) in a way that informs strategic decision making
Produce and publish regular reporting across all FinOps metrics that are relevant to respective teams
Support the FinOps Lead in defining, shaping and driving FinOps Strategies, Policies, processes and controls
Utilise the reporting dashboards (visualisation) created by the FinOps Data Engineer to drive insights and recommendations on Cloud costs.
Support new Portfolio requirements, forecasting spend
Build a feedback loop that reinforces positive results, provides transparency and motivates actions on more optimisations.