Finops Lead Consultant

KPMG is one of the world’s leading professional services firms and the fastest growing Big Four accounting firm

About The Job:

• Required Experience: 6+ years
• Carrier is a leading provider of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, building controls and automation, and fire and security systems leading to safer, smarter, balanced, and high-performance buildings.

Essential Job Functions:

• Candidate should have experience on multi cloud environment with Cloud Strategy & Digital Transformation exposure
• Analytical thinking and skills to collect, analyze, and present sophisticated data to a variety of audiences
• Obsession with cloud technology and ability to articulate the cloud value proposition in both technical and commercial views
• Considerable technical experience with cost optimization techniques
• Practical knowledge of cloud provider cost management capabilities, pricing models, rightsizing approaches, tagging, storage lifecycle policies, and automation
• Experience with third party cloud cost management tools or knowledge of common Business Intelligence platforms
• Help product team across the business to understand the variable cloud spend
• Create metrics, reports, tools, and recommendations for financial excellence in the cloud
• Implement FinOps practices: cloud billing management, cloud cost chargeback tagging for cost attribution, cloud forecasting & utilization tracking, and cloud cost optimization
• Drive cloud cost efficiency efforts by collaborating with different teams across the enterprise
• Work closely with Team on budgets, forecasts, and chargebacks
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, patterns, and areas for cost reduction.
• Responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting the cloud optimization practice and make recommendations on reserved capacity strategy, utilization optimization opportunities, product architectural recommendations to promote cost savings, and discounts for optimization
• Support and assist in the development of the cloud infrastructure FinOps plan and roadmap
• Provide support for the execution and iteration of cloud spend governance process
• Partner with Business, Cloud and Finance leaders to define, implement, and drive best practices in FinOps
• Candidate should possess Python programming language to develop, debug, and implement application projects
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications:
Required experience:

• Overall 6-9 years of experience in multi cloud environment
• Minimum of 6 years of Cloud FinOps exposure and should possess strong Finops practices.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of proven, hands-on experience in Programming such as python scripting
• Experience working with remote and globally distributed teams

Education & Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree from a world-class school in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
• Master’s degree in applicable discipline highly desired.
• FinOps certified Practitioner
• AWS Certified Solution Architect