Finops Consultant

**Job Description**:
Cloud is already at the heart of Capgemini’s strategy. Our ambition is clear and bold: be the leader in Cloud business transformation. In Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) we aim to to help our clients accelerate and optimize their business using public cloud services, creating the digital foundations to innovate new industry solutions and customer experiences. We leverage our extensive experience in enterprise IT transformation, our global scale and delivery centres, and our experience in building infrastructure platforms that run business to become the industry leading cloud platform builders and operators, for our clients, by delivering sustainable and innovative cloud solutions fueled by an end-to-end portfolio of cloud services and accelerators. This is an opportunity to work with a talented group of Cloud experts from across the globe to deliver public cloud business transformation to a variety of clients across all industries and be part of the team delivering the ambition to be the leader in Cloud business transformation.

As a FinOps consultant, you will be involved in very key FinOps projects consisting of assess, recommend, and deploy FinOps practice within the organization of our customers.

More specifically, your responsibilities include:

- Organising & managing delivery meetings with project stakeholders
- Defining and managing the overall planning of delivery of Capgemini FinOps framework
- Defining and ensuring the setup for scope & level of depth of the assessment phase Orchestrating the collect of client inputs and report the outputs including FinOps maturity assessment, FinOps best practices recommendations, and Optimizations recommendations overview
- Providing all FinOps governance, adoption and change management guidelines adapted to the client context
Supporting Cloud architect & SME teams in the optimization activities making sure of the clarity of explanations and saving calculations
- Supporting in FinOps governance setup
- Defining with client Dashboard's strategy and tooling approach
- Proactive monitoring & KPI Reporting
- Devising strategies for Clients to manage their Cloud finances - analysing Cloud spend & usage data to identify areas of focus, creating strategies to support the adoption of FinOps within the customer’s organisation
- Engaging with product engineering teams - collaboration to support realistic cost/efficiency optimisation efforts
- Implementing custom solutions to solve specific business problems including building bespoke reporting solutions when required to meet a customer’s need
- Deploying FinOps Optimizations opportunities on behalf of our customers in liaise with our Managed services teams

What you bring:
You are flexible and dynamic and have the energy, commitment and resilience to achieve your targets in challenging and evolving business environments. Credible and collaborative, you are recognized as an important player in your domain and have a proven track record of service excellence with internal stakeholders and clients alike.

Prioritizing your own work, you deliver to agreed targets. You identify problems and pertinent areas for questioning as well as appreciate the actions relevant to solve issues. Developing techniques to improve service, you strive to build up your competence through training, development and experience. Likewise you foster techniques to present information efficiently and get buy-in in straightforward situations. Fully competent in your area, you take sound decisions and deliver a clear, well-structured and concise argument to support your opinion.

You will also need to demonstrate the following competencies:

- You will have prior experience working on FinOps initiatives, and be passionate about working on Finops at scale
- Previous experience with delivering 1-3 FinOps projects
- Deep understanding and strong working knowledge of the variety of cost-control strategies available in the major hyperscalers AWS, Azure, GCP
- A clear understanding of billing and metering for cloud platforms, including the impact of usage patterns on the total cost of ownership (TCO)
- FinOps Evangelist: Have driven change at the engineering level or advising senior managers on strategies relating to reserved instances and savings plans purchase
- Desirable - Experience working with 3rd Party Cloud Cost management tools (CloudHeath, Cloudability, Cloudchecker,etc)
- You speak fluent Dutch and English

Required certifications:

- Cloud practitioner certified
- FinOps practitioner certified or significant experience in FinOps deployment project

You also have the subsequent experience and strengths:

- Client Value & Service Excellence
- Continuous Learning & Self Development
- Collaboration
- Diversity, Flexibility and Initiative
- Life Balancing
- Living Capgemini values
- Professional Integrity and resilience