FinOps Lead

TradingHub Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Private medical insurance

Dental cover

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Enhanced pension plan

Study leave for qualifications

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

TradingHub is seeking a FinOps Lead in London to manage cloud spending and optimise cost across our hybrid cloud estate. You will partner with Engineering and Finance to ensure financial discipline while scaling our cloud platform.

The role requires strong FinOps experience, AWS knowledge and governance capability to deliver value and transparency for cloud investments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing cloud spend in large-scale public cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Knowledge of cloud billing models and cost-optimisation techniques.
• Experience with FinOps tooling and cost management.
• Understanding of tagging, cost allocation and showback/chargeback frameworks.
• Ability to analyse cloud consumption and financial data to identify optimisation opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud cost management and optimisation across TradingHub's cloud estate.
• Monitor cloud consumption and identify opportunities to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
• Drive cost allocation, tagging standards and showback/chargeback models to improve spend visibility and accountability.
• Manage and optimise cloud commercial commitments, including Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
• Partner with Engineering and Finance to forecast spend and embed FinOps best practices.
• Establish governance, tooling and reporting enabling cost-conscious decision making.

Skills

Cloud cost management

AWS

FinOps tooling

Cost optimisation

Tagging & showback

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

FinOps Lead

Location

London

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Compensation: Competitive (Financial Services)

About TradingHub

Founded in 2010, TradingHub delivers uniquely intelligent trade surveillance software to world leading financial institutions. Developed by market professionals, our solutions use sophisticated modelling techniques to detect single and cross-product market manipulation.

With a team of over 150 experts worldwide, TradingHub combines global reach with deep markets expertise to help our customers mitigate financial, regulatory, and reputational risk.

The Role

As TradingHub continues to scale its cloud-based platform and services, effective management of cloud investment is critical to maintaining operational efficiency, cost transparency and long-term scalability. The FinOps Lead is responsible for establishing and embedding a cloud financial management capability across the organisation, ensuring technology investment delivers maximum value.

Acting as the connection between Engineering, Finance and Product, the role drives greater visibility, accountability and informed decision-making around cloud consumption, enabling TradingHub to scale sustainably while maintaining financial discipline.

Responsibilities:

• Own cloud cost management and optimisation across TradingHub's cloud estate

• Monitor cloud consumption and identify opportunities to reduce waste and improve efficiency

• Drive cost allocation, tagging standards and showback/chargeback models to improve spend visibility and accountability

• Manage and optimise cloud commercial commitments, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and provider discount programmes

• Partner with Engineering and Finance to forecast spend, evaluate investment decisions and embed FinOps best practices

• Establish governance, tooling and reporting that enables cost-conscious decision making across the organisation

Requirements

• Proven experience managing cloud spend within large-scale public cloud environments

• Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-native infrastructure principles

• Knowledge of cloud billing models, cost optimisation techniques and commitment-based discount programmes

• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps tooling

• Understanding of tagging, cost allocation and showback/chargeback frameworks

• Ability to analyse cloud consumption and financial data to identify optimisation opportunities

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

Life at TradingHub is a rewarding journey within a fast-growing company that thrives on innovation and collaboration. By combining the best of technology and global markets, we’re able to solve complex problems together and deliver meaningful results to our customers. Everybody has value to bring, and we welcome individuality as a key driving force behind our collective success.

Rooted in everything that we do are our core values: Accountability, Ambition, Partnership and Trust. These values provide the foundation for a sustainable workplace culture that empowers you to grow, contribute, and become your best self.

Employee Benefits:

• Annual discretionary performance bonus (permanent employees only)

• Hybrid working policy

• Office lunches twice a week

• Private medical insurance + dental cover

• Extended parental leave (up to 6 months of fully paid maternity leave)

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Enhanced company pension plan

• 5 days study leave towards professional qualifications

• Salary sacrifice schemes

• Death in service coverage

Don’t tick every single requirement? Research shows that candidates from under-represented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet all the criteria. We are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace, so if this role excites you, please don't let our specification hold you back.

TradingHub is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, ethnic or national origins, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. TradingHub selects candidates for interview based solely on their skills, experience and qualifications.

We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all and we encourage candidates to inform us of any required adjustments. A full copy of our diversity, equity and inclusion policy will be made available to you upon request.