What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include

- Continue to develop and implement FinOps best practice frameworks, including policies, processes, and best practices, to ensure effective cloud financial management aligned with organizational goals. Collaborate with architects, application delivery, cloud engineers, DevOps, finance, and procurement teams to enhance integration of FinOps principles and promoting responsible cloud usage, through education and best practice processes.
- Create financial dashboards, provide insights and forecasts to senior stakeholders, and foster a culture of cloud financial responsibility through training. Manage Azure cloud service budgets, participate in CSP negotiations via Procurement, and conduct regular FinOps maturity assessments to drive continuous improvement.
- Report on accuracy, policy compliance and leading initiatives to enhance cloud financial management in line with industry best practices and assigned budget. Build and implement data-driven reporting allowing to identify cost-saving opportunities, optimizing resources, and tracking utilization for efficiency. Provide regular, timely, transparent and accurate cloud consumption costing information to management team and recommendations for optimization.
- Outline, communicate and foster chapter ownership and governance across teams (application development, architecture, finance, management, business) to optimize synergies and encourage joint goals. Assist building of the FinOps community within application teams to increase maturity and ensure they have the Fin Ops knowledge they need to be responsible for their own costs.




- Maintain AXA XL Cloud run costs that forecasts are maintained for the Global IT estate over the financial period and that we can achieve run rate savings, this includes:
- Periodic production of cloud costs to consumption owners to ensure trends are understood and anomalies addressed
- Maintaining average cost profiles of applications migrating to cloud and then updating cloud cost forecasts in line with migrations
- Assist with yearly budget process to ensure budget requests are in line with the business case forecasts
- Active membership of AXA Groups FinOps community to gain from and share learnings with the community. Also produce quarterly reporting required by Group.
- Maintain a valuable understanding of the cloud provider pricing models so that can work with Application Teams to give recommendations on potential cost savings. Work with technical teams to drive technical optimizations such as right sizing.
- Calculate cloud costs and set budgets for applications as part of the project processes, once live then monitor actual spend against the budget. Manage project recharge process where applicable, or raise alerts if applications spend higher than agreed budget.
- Reconciliation of monthly invoicing to our CSP usage and ensure that service credits are given where applicable and that we are tracking against committed spend.
- Implement the budget and alert framework for any threshold spikes or anomalies to take preventative action if necessary.





You will report to Head of Cloud Platforms.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

- Certified FinOps skilled with preferably finance background and experience. E.g. FinOps Certified Practitioner, Cost Management Finance Qualifications.
- Proven ability in conducting and presenting sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translating the results into actionable deliverables, messages, and presentations to various audiences (technical teams, finance teams, senior management).
- Excellent financial and analytical skills with ideally good experience in Cloud Service Consumption Modelling tools in a large-scale IT infrastructure and application environment.
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and leadership skills, with a track record of presenting to senior management. Excellent cross department and cross Group collaboration skills.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a track record of developing business relationships that can drive change.
- Good understanding of Cloud computing technologies, AZ900 Azure Fundamentals would be beneficial. Deep experience of Microsoft Office Suite required (extensive knowledge of Power BI and Excel required).
- Previous experiencing with FinOps tooling, specifically Cloudability, would be advantageous.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

- Able to operate successfully in a lean, fast-paced organization, and to create a vision and organization that can scale quickly.
- Highly organized, demonstrated ability to successfully multi-task and efficiently deliver results in ambiguous situation.

📌 Cloud FinOps Team Lead (Gurugram)
🏢 AXA XL
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