FinOps Lead: Cloud Cost Optimization & Governance

TradingHub; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary performance bonus

Hybrid working policy

Private medical insurance + dental

Extended parental leave

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Enhanced company pension plan

5 days study leave towards prof. quals

Salary sacrifice schemes

Death in service coverage

Office lunches twice a week

Job summary

TradingHub is a cloud-based financial services software company that specializes in trade surveillance. The FinOps Lead will establish and embed cloud financial management across the organisation, ensuring technology investments deliver maximum value.

Reporting to cross-functional teams in Engineering, Finance and Product, you will drive visibility, accountability and informed decision-making around cloud consumption to support scalable growth with financial discipline.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Cloud cost management

AWS expertise

FinOps tooling

Cost allocation & showback

Cloud billing models

Data analysis (cloud spend)

Stakeholder management

Job description

TradingHub is a cloud-based financial services software company that specializes in trade surveillance. The FinOps Lead will establish and embed cloud financial management across the organisation, ensuring technology investments deliver maximum value.

Reporting to cross-functional teams in Engineering, Finance and Product, you will drive visibility, accountability and informed decision-making around cloud consumption to support scalable growth with financial discipline.