Senior FinOps Specialist

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

Role Description:

The FinOps team are a group of Cloud specialists who help the business understand, optimise, and operate cloud usage from a finance point of view. Our key area of focus is aligning to business requirements to improve profitability by making effective use of our investment in cloud.

Key Responsibilities:

The team is seeking a Finance and planning specialist to:

• Improve plan management to capture forecasts for application usage and help application teams understand blue sky and black swan events.

• Drive an improved cultural attitude where cost against performance opportunities are sought by application teams so that unit metrics can be created to control and advertise cloud business value creation.

• Support Finance & Procurement teams with reporting and PO management where simplifying billing data enables improved customer and regulator reports.

• Share with Architecture & Design teams FinOps best-practice and benchmark experience to improve long-term decision making.

Required Skills:

• Good English language verbal and written communication skills crucial.

• Hold a certification in one of the major cloud providers technologies above foundation level, or hold a degree in Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.

• Familiarity with the FinOps Foundation framework and an understanding of what it means to reach “run” maturity.

• Deep understanding of common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts that Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams use day-to-day is crucial.

• Prior public cloud experience is helpful to this role, but training will be given where required.

• A proven eagerness to learn the latest industrial trends and an ability to translate how these technologies can help our vision will recognise our team as class leading.

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 2