Description
GSK is seeking a Cloud FinOps Manager to lead enterprise cloud rate optimization across Azure and GCP, and own the FinOps service that provides a single, trusted view of cloud cost.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Rate Optimization and Commitments
- Leading savings plans, reservations, commitments, and discount strategies across cloud providers
- Tracking commitment coverage and utilization, prepayments, cost avoidance, realized savings, and contracted benefits
- Assessing provider pricing changes and defining actions to address the financial impact
- Confirming negotiated rates, discounts, and commitments are correctly reflected in billing and reporting
- Informing supplier negotiations, renewals, and commercial decisions with rate and consumption analysis
FinOps Platform Ownership
- Defining and maintaining the platform vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Translating priorities into platform capabilities and coordinating feasibility, delivery, dependencies, release readiness, and rollout
- Overseeing platform access, permissions, vendor support, operational issues, availability, and data quality
- Maintaining billing and usage data ingestion, integrations, data pipelines, and automations
- Leading vendor evaluations, RFPs, contract renewals, and service cost allocation
Cost Allocation, Reporting, and Data Quality
- Maintaining the enterprise tagging standard, allocation rules, account structures, business mappings, and cost ownership and chargeback logic
- Producing allocated cloud cost data for reporting, forecasting, chargeback, and cost recovery
- Monitoring and investigating anomalies, unexpected increases, allocation issues, incomplete data, and processing delays
Governance and Enablement
- Maintaining policies, controls, standards, procedures, management monitoring, and evidence for rate optimization, allocation, reporting, and platform activities
- Providing cost modeling, estimation, and guidance to platform teams and cloud consumers
- Operating the Cloud FinOps Forum, including rate optimization KPI reviews and follow-up actions
Education & Professional Qualifications
- BS or MS degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent practical experience
- Azure, GCP, and FinOps certifications (desirable)
Experience Required
- Overall 15 years and 8–10 years in cloud finance, FinOps, or technology cost management
- Proven delivery of enterprise cloud rate optimization covering savings plans, reservations, commitments, discounts, consumption analysis, and savings realization
- Hands-on experience managing a cloud cost management platform, including roadmap prioritization, allocation, reporting, APIs, integrations, automation, access, and vendor support