Senior FinOps Specialist

<p><span><span><span><span><b><span>About Us:</span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>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. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Proud to share LSEG in Romania is Great Place to Work certified (Sept ’24 – Sept ’25). Learn more about life and purpose of our company directly from the Romanian colleagues’ video: </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.lseg.com/en/careers/where-we-work/bucharest-romania" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Bucharest, Romania | Where We Work | LSEG</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><b><span>Role Description:</span></b></span></span></p><p></p><p>A Senior FinOps Specialist who has detailed knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP is required to join a dedicated FinOps team to assist with the management of a large public cloud estate.</p><p></p><p>The Cloud FinOps Specialist is responsible for managing cloud consumption by encouraging efficient cloud use throughout the application lifecycle. The successful candidate will have extensive AWS/Azure/GCP experience; be familiar with the FinOps foundation’s framework &amp; know what is required to achieve “run” maturity; be able to confidently talk with application teams about their designs, encouraging good use of cloud agility and unit economics; and be able to highlight improvements to cost / performance ratios through virtual machine management &amp; reserved instance purchase.</p><p></p><p><b>Key Responsibilities</b><b>:</b></p><p></p><p>Work with application teams to educate and advise on: technology usage, specifically to ensure the most appropriate technologies are implemented; reserved instances purchased, and savings plans are considered where required.</p><p>Collect business requirements from customers, shaping them into technical specifications, present them to the provider and development team, communicate on the release of the new features and constantly collect and share feedback.</p><p>Look after increased adoption of cloud cost management tool by end users and set-up regular Q&amp;A, workshops with the provider.</p><p>Keep up to date with industry trends so that business partners can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost / performance ratios.</p><p>Use cost management tools to clearly communicate complex analysis of cloud data in simple understandable terms for all levels of the organisation.</p><p>Demonstrable eagerness to learn the latest industrial trends and can translate how these services or technologies can improve cost / performance for our business partners.</p><p>Use reports to highlight tagging data quality to drive improvements with cost allocation and management reports.</p><p></p><p><b><span>Candidate Profile / Key Skills:</span></b></p><p></p><p>Good English language verbal and written communication skills essential.</p><p>Ideally, the successful candidate would hold the Certification in one of the major cloud providers technologies.</p><p>or</p><p>Hold a degree in Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.</p><p>Well-developed technical knowledge across a broad range of IT topics, public cloud.</p><p>Experience using a public cloud cost management tool.</p><p>Strong analytical skills and a proven record of taking ownership, leading data backend analyses, and influencing results.</p><p>Strong problem-solving skills and data-driven decision making.</p><p>Minimum 3 years