FinOps Consultant

About the job

Established in 1982, Bytes has grown rapidly and now employs over 800+ people across 6 locations in the UK and Ireland. Our turnover in Financial Year 2024 was in excess of £2bn. We work with SME’s, corporates and public sector organisations to modernise and digitally transform their IT infrastructures.

We invest in our employees through on-going support, training and advice to help them achieve their career aspirations, rewarding success both financially and personally. There is opportunity to grow and move internally which can be seen through our long-standing employees who have developed existing and new skills to move into senior positions in the organisation leaving space for new team members to begin their journey.

Your Future Starts Here

Why Bytes?

• Over 800 staff (plans to double in size over the next 5 years)
• Operating from modern, hybrid working environments with offices in Leatherhead, Reading, London, Manchester, Port Solent and Dublin.
• Winners of an array of industry awards
• Sunday Times Top 100 Best Places to Work
• Excellent training and career prospects offered
• Fantastic office with gym, canteen, open plan, smart casual dress code, regular incentives and company events
• Supporters of 85+ charities with strong commitment to diversity and sustainability

Location

Hybrid Working – Leatherhead or Reading

PURPOSE OF JOB:

• As part of the Bytes License Services team, the FinOps Consultant will be responsible for delivering best practices in FinOps and Cloud Optimisation Services throughout the delivery lifecycle. This role involves producing, managing, and maintaining accurate software cloud optimisation positions across multiple vendors and Microsoft practices (AWS & GCP desirable). In addition to driving cost efficiency, you will provide expert guidance on optimizing cloud asset management strategies, including offering purchasing recommendations and advising on cost-saving actions. Our goal is to help clients achieve sustainable financial performance and align with cloud optimization best practices.

• The ideal candidate would acts as the technical SME (subject matter expert) for all FinOps matters relating to Azure & 365 (AWS / GCP desirable) & be expected to utilise their FinOps knowledge to synthesise a consulting approach to client delivery guidance that includes: story-based presentation narrative creation focused on ‘so what’ client storytelling. This role acts as a critical support to the Head of FinOps in helping to align longer term strategic roadmap planning with delivery upskilling planning, ensuring we have the right training & certification plans across the team to support our GTM & Proposition roadmap goals.

Key Strategic Activities:

• Technical SME for FinOps team (Azure & 365).
• Support Head of FinOps as required on Project work.

FinOps Lifecycle Management:

• Own Customer Deliveries for full length of service.
• Ensure all customer deliverables are to the highest quality and delivered in an agreed upon time.
• Spearheading key FinOps activity and giving input into service improvements from the customer perspective.
• Acting as a Subject Matter Expert for our customers and Bytes Sales teams.
• Managing the work schedule for deliverables in alignment with BAU tasks, team goals and management priorities.
• Delivering thought-leadership for cloud optimisation engagements; submitting enhancement/evolutionary suggestions for changing existing defined service specifications based on customer feedback, toolset development and changes to best practice and industry standards - thereby contributing to the continuous service improvement effort.
• Ensuring relationships are established and maintained with members of the Services team and specifically colleagues delivering similar, related or dependent services.

As the requirements of the business and our customers change, so this job profile, duties, responsibilities, and locations of the role (both geographically and within the business organisational structure) will be adjusted accordingly.

The Consultant will be required to perform any other duties assigned to them by their line management team that are commensurate with the existing role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ownership of task from assignment through to delivery.
• Effective contribute to the overall delivery of FinOps services
• Using initiative to highlight anomalies or relationships in datasets.
• Build and maintain effective working relationship with customers.
• Development and maintenance of knowledge and process library.
• Proactively support and identify service improvement initiatives.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS:

Professional Qualifications

Essential

• Previous FinOps experience within an IT Consultancy or IT Services focused position
• MS-900 Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
• AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
• FinOps Practitioner

Desirable

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified AI Practitioner
• Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification
• FinOps Professional
• FinOps FOCUS Analyst
• AZ-104
• AI-900
• DP-900
• SC-900
• PL-900

CORE Competencies & SKILLS

• Organised individual with excellent time management.
• Accuracy and attention to detail essential.
• Copes well under pressure and can meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with customer service/facing skills essential – ability and confidence to engage with customer stakeholders (internal/external) at all levels up to C-Suite.
• Self-motivated and able to take responsibility.
• Tenacious, adaptable and quick to learn.