Head of FinOps - New Role (REFBJ4)

A leading organisation in Edinburgh requires a Head of FinOps to join its technology services team.

The successful candidate will be accountable for overseeing and optimizing the capacity planning/management for both technology infrastructure and applications, as well as leading a team who analyse capacity usage data, generate reports and provide insight on future forecasting across the infrastructure and application estate.

Key responsibilities include:

• Analysing and predicting future IT Infrastructure capacity needs based on business growth, usage trends, and technological advancements.
• Overseeing IT Infrastructure capacity planning (for servers, storage, networking, database, licences and other infrastructure components).
• Meeting/exceeding FinOps targets for cost reallocation and cloud optimisation.
• Proactive and effective management of the Global FinOps services.
• Analysing capacity usage data, generating reports, and presenting findings to senior management.
• Identifying opportunities to enhance reporting quality, grow the scope and coverage of capacity observability and improve capacity reporting.
• Identifying potential capacity-related risks and developing mitigation strategies to prevent performance issues or service disruptions.

Suitable candidates will have:

• Experience of leading technical IT infrastructure capacity management functions, ideally in a financial services organisation.
• Experience leading global teams and collaboration with multi-disciplined technical teams would also be advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure.
• Management of Opex cost centres – both FTEs and supplier Opex cost.
• Business planning experience and the ability to forecast cost for budget cycles.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to keep reports updated on strategic initiatives by means of written updates, stand up Town Halls and presentations.
• Knowledge of service governance processes and the ability to understand risk to services.
• ITIL knowledge and experience of working within ITIL aligned organisations.

Excellent benefits package you would expect from a global leader.

Please send CV for full job description and an informal chat.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology, Finance, and Other

Industries

Financial Services, Technology, Information and Media, and Information Services

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