Fin Ops Cost Lead

Ageas Insurance Ltd; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Dental Insurance

Health Screening

Will Writing

Annual Bonus Schemes

Competitive Pension

Employee Savings

Job summary

Ageas Insurance Ltd is seeking a Fin Ops Cost Lead to drive cloud spend optimisation, cost insight creation and actionable dashboards. The role blends technology and finance, with hybrid working from Eastleigh or London and a weekly office day.

Ideal candidates bring senior Fin Ops experience, strong Azure/AWS knowledge, and analytical mindset to influence budgeting and cost management across the organisation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ minimum experience operating at a senior level as Fin Ops Engineer or Fin Ops Architect.
• Experience in technology finance, cloud cost management or similar.
• Strong expertise in Azure and AWS.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Collaborative approach and strong relationship‑building skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Fin Ops and cloud cost optimisation activities.
• Monitor cloud spend and identify savings opportunities.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Create dashboards, reports and cost insights.
• Promote cost awareness across technology teams.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Azure

AWS

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Location: Eastleigh, London, Hybrid Working

Fin Ops Cost Lead: Fantastic opportunity to join Ageas as a Fin Ops Cost Lead and help turn cloud cost data into practical insights. The purpose of the Fin Ops Cost Lead is to lead cloud cost management and optimisation across the organisation, working closely with technology, finance and business teams.

The role is Hybrid and can be based from either Eastleigh or London offices with a day a week in the aligned office.

Main Responsibilities as Fin Ops Cost Lead:

• Lead Fin Ops and cloud cost optimisation activities.
• Monitor cloud spend and identify savings opportunities.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Create dashboards, reports and cost insights.
• Promote cost awareness across technology teams.

Skills and experience you need as Fin Ops Cost Lead:

• 3+ years’ minimum experience operating at a senior level as either Fin Ops Engineer or Fin Ops Architect.
• Experience in technology finance, cloud cost management or similar.
• Strong expertise in Azure and AWS.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Collaborative approach and strong relationship‑building skills.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

• Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part‑time/job‑shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Supporting you at Work- Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent/co‐adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave