THE ROLE IT FINOPS MANAGER
This global role is responsible for establishing financial operations (FinOps) practices within the IT department. You'll build statistical and technical solutions for cost analysis, optimize IT expenses, and automate cost reporting processes. You'll collaborate with various stakeholders to drive cost-effective IT operations. This is a global role and oversees end-to-end IT FinOps Management at Hapag-Lloyd from cost perspective. The role represents a great opportunity to join an organisation of significant scale that is transforming to a platform operating model and looking to modernise its traditional application landscape and needs a strong analyst to help on that journey.
An experienced leader with a proven track record of FinOps management for large organisations and driver of cost efficiency will find this role appealing.
Accountabilities
A high-level role overview follows:
The IT FinOps Manager will be accountable for:
Cost Management & Optimization
- Lead the Run Cost Efficiency Program office, focusing on cost governance, finance tracking, and standard operating procedures.
- Optimize IT infrastructure expenses and identify opportunities for cost reduction.
- Propose, design, implement, and maintain programs for cost performance reviews, savings initiatives, and best practices.
- Analyse cost data to identify areas of inefficiency and implement cost controls.
- Manage costs during growth and decline periods, avoiding overspending and excessive cost reductions.
- Monitor budgets and ensure financial targets are met.
FinOps Solutions
- Build and maintain statistical and technical solutions for FinOps, including models, tools, data integration, data processing, and data analytics capabilities.
- Design and develop processes and tools for cost collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Integrate data from various sources (mainframe, on-premise, cloud) for cost analysis.
- Leverage technologies for granular cost visibility and accurate financial data.
Process & Reporting Automation
- Automate cost reporting and establish recurring organizational processes for cost management.
- Develop and administer reporting and tracking systems for TCO/finance activities.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement using automation technology.
- Support EOM and EOY close processes for cost reporting.
Collaboration & Communication
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive cost-effective solutions and foster innovation in cost management.
- Communicate cost performance insights and data to stakeholders.
- Prepare data-driven presentations and briefings for stakeholders.
- Support peers by providing visibility to cost data and performance metrics.
RESPONSIBILY BREAKDOWN
Core Responsibilities for IT FinOps Manager:
- Monitor budgets and ensure financial targets are met.
- Track and maintain cost forecasting model and data.
- Communicate cost performance insights and data to stakeholders.
- Support EOM and EOY close processes for cost reporting.
- Prepare data-driven presentations and briefings for stakeholders.
- Support peers by providing visibility to cost data and performance metrics.
- Integrate data from various sources (mainframe, on-premise, cloud) for cost analysis.
- Analyze cost data to identify areas of inefficiency and implement cost controls.
- Propose, design, implement, and maintain programs for cost performance reviews, savings initiatives, and best practices.
- Design and develop tools for cost collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Develop and administer reporting and tracking systems for finance activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive cost-effective solutions.
- Perform contract analysis for IT services with a focus on cost optimization.
- Lead the development of new processes and solutions for cost efficiency.
- Automate cost reporting processes to improve efficiency.
- Leverage technologies for granular cost visibility and accurate financial data.
- Manage costs during growth and decline periods, avoiding overspending and excessive cost reductions.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement using automation technology.
STAKEHOLDERS
- IT Leadership Globally
- FinOps Leadership Team
- Cloud Centre of Excellence
- Platform Engineering Teams
- Cloud Service Providers
- Finance Managers
- Business Unit Leaders
- Engineering/Development Teams
- Cost Management Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
- IT Operations Teams
SKILLS
Technical
- Require 18-22 years of technology experience.
- At least 10 years of experience in Finance Operations, experience with large multinational organisations.
- Demonstratable experience in building tools and automation solutions.
- Amazon Web Services
- Data integration and processing tools
- Cost management platforms
- Reporting and analytics tools/APIs/integrators.
- Automation scripting (Python, etc.)
- Experience establishing frameworks and processes for governance.
- Competent administrator in multiple dimensions.
Business
- Thorough understanding of financial management principles (TCO, budgeting) and operations.
- Experience with capacity forecasting, cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management.
- Cost optimization strategies
- Process improvement and Project management methodologies.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others.
- Ability to influence and persuade.
- Experience in Shipping or Logistics would be an advantage.
Personal profile
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Proactive cost reduction, automation, and improvements in process efficiency.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Highly motivated and results oriented.
- High Energy, able to motivate, collaborate and to generate followership.
- Strong communication skills, with demonstrated capability in engaging a large, distributed organisation.
