FinOps Lead

The FinOps Lead is a crucial role driving financial efficiencies, accountability, transparency along with value optimisation across our multi cloud environment. The role bridges finance, technology and product teams to ensure delivery of cloud business strategy, investment decisions and cost-efficiency goals.

The role will champion FinOps principles to improve cost management, optimise cloud consumption, and support the organisation in scaling while cultivating a culture of cost-consciousness across the engineering teams.

What you will be doing

• Lead cloud financial planning cycles (budget/ forecast/ actuals) ensuring accuracy, transparency and alignment with technology and business strategy.
• Analyse cloud cost drivers and consumption patterns, delivering insights and cost trends and outline opportunities for optimisation.
• Partner with cloud engineering and platform teams to align architectural decisions and hold the team accountable managing cost constraints.
• Act as a trusted advisor to technology and business leaders on cloud economics, investment trade-offs, and financial implications of architectural choice.
• Strengthen governance frameworks for cloud spend, ensuring compliance and internal cost-management policies.
• Support vendor negotiations, contract renewals, and cost-performance benchmarking.

About you

• Background in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), management accounting or finance business partnering. (Ideally with a professional qualification)
• Experience managing technology and/or cloud-based spend within complex organisation.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into financial implications.
• Proven ability to collaborate with non-finance, engineering, architecture, procurement, and senior leadership.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to challenge constructively.

Interview process

The interview process for this role is two stages including a technical competency-based question and a task.

Working Schedule

This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern.

Why us?

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions

* dependent on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.