2 Finop Jobs

Responsibilities Define and clearly communicate the FinOps strategy, objectives, milestones and key results. [This role is accountable for making FinOps strategic decisions. The role must consult and clearly communicate with roles up to SVP. This role must broadly and effectively communicate the strategy and plan within DP&A and across other organizations and functions.] Define and execute an integrated FinOps plan. [This role is accountable for making decisions and leading a global team to execute an integrated plan, which relies substantially on other teams to deliver. This role must influence others who are often at higher levels and not direct reports and often with competing priorities. This role must effectively collaborate with other functions and organizations (e.g. Vendor Management, Finance, PepsiCo Cloud Cost Office, etc)] Reduce cloud and on-premise infrastructure costs. [This role must consider many factors and make difficult tradeoff decisions to reduce costs without adversely impacting business expectations for about DP&A 300 apps. This role must communicate effectively so people who are not direct reports take action. This leader must also increase transparency by building dashboarding and insights to convince people to act, to identify issues and to celebrate successes.] Lead AMS contract management to structure & implement optimized pricing model for DP&A apps. [This role must broadly collaborate with other colleagues, leadership and Vendor Management to reduce vendor costs without adversely impacting business expectations for about 300 DP&A apps.] Rationalize apps to save money. [This role must gather evidence and clearly articulate a compelling reason why some apps should be decommissioned. This role must have the ability to persuade others to make difficult decisions and changes, then hold people accountable for implementing the changes.] Optimize inefficient processes and tools. [This role must identify inefficiencies in processes and tools then make improvement decisions. Recommendations must be convincingly communicated to others. Making changes requires planning and collaboration with other teams across DP&A and other organizations. The changes have the potential to impact many people across geographies at a variety of roles and in different functions and organization.] Increase transparency via reporting and insights. [This role must identify what dashboards, reports and insights are needed then lead the team to design, build, test, deploy and sustain these analytics. This requires understanding complex data and leading a team to work with different tools. This role must set measurable goals and KPIs.] Research and implement the latest FinOps best practices and tools. [This role must consult people within PepsiCo and externally to understand FinOps best practices. This role must decide what best practices to implement and convince others to implement them. For example, this role must understand how, if at all, AI can be used in FinOps. This role must be able to convince people to change and then execute any changes. Qualifications 7+ years of experience leading an IT team in a large company or top-tier consulting firm Highly analytical with the ability to simplify complexity and make good decisions Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze and mitigate uncertainty while dealing with ambiguity Creative thinker who is passionate about making things more efficient and effective Experienced change leader who can build broad networks and deliver results in a collaborative way Ability to clearly communicate and convince others to act using influence rather than direct control Highly experienced presentation skills with the ability to communicate with senior leaders and have the skills to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people Demonstrated ability to think strategically then exceed expectations with tactical execution Experience leading and manager diverse and global teams of contractors and employees Curiosity for learning and for helping others grow Preferred experience in FinOps and/or Finance Experience working with vendors to deliver highly visible & complex programs Experience applying agile ways of working (e.g. Scrum, SAFe) to deliver results with high team org health

Role Description The DB Cloud FinOps function drives financial accountability of cloud consumption, providing distributed teams with insights into their consumption, spend and optimisation / control options to ensure cloud usage is managed efficiently. We are seeking an individual with a strong background in GCP services, FinOps and IT Application management. The applicant will be the IT Owner of the FinOps Application platform on our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment. The FinOps Application consists of our GCP landing zone (GCP projects, resources datasets) and our FinOps Looker instance. This together with our teams skillset is the strategic cloud cost management function for the bank. The role covers E2E platform management, which includes creation and maintenance of BigQuery datasets and views, administration of billing exports, deployment of Cloudfunctions, API integrations and compliance adherence. Your key responsibilities Ensure the FinOps application is maintained in accordance with the Banks IT Security Risk, Audit and Compliance requirements. Provisioning and maintenance of GCP billing, recommender and database services to support FinOps internal and external capabilities (e.g. BigQuery, GCS buckets and billing exports) Provisioning of serverless GCP services to support the automation of key FinOps insights and optimization / recommendation capabilities (i.e, Pub/Sub topics, Cloud Run, API queries and Cloud Functions) Management of FinOps GCP IAM roles, permissions and Github repositories. Support with the integration of our FinOps platform into other tools used withing the bank (e.g. Jira, Looker) Your skills and experience Infrastructure & Cloud technology industry experience (7+ Years) Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle methodology Proficient with Terraform, Python and Github (3+ Years) Proficient in GCP infrastructure and GCP services Proficient in data analysis tools (e.g. Excel, PowerQuery, SQL) Strong analytical and problem solving skills Experience in FinOps preferred