FinOps Specialist

HSBC Group; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization is seeking a skilled professional in Sheffield to design and implement scalable FinOps solutions for cloud cost management. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud financial management and a strong understanding of relevant tools like Apptio and Power BI. Leadership and collaboration skills are essential, as you will work closely with engineering, finance, and architecture teams. This role offers competitive pay, professional development opportunities, and a diverse workplace culture.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Contributory pension scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cloud solution design, cloud financial management, DevOps, or platform engineering/architecture.
• Strong knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g., BigQuery, Athena, Snowflake, Tableau, Looker).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan and implement scalable FinOps systems and tools for cloud cost visibility.
• Develop and execute a FinOps roadmap to improve cost accountability.
• Build automated optimisation solutions and dashboards to deliver cost savings.

Skills

Cloud solution design

Cloud financial management

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis tools

Python

SQL

Tools

Apptio

Cloudability

CloudHealth

Power BI

Terraform

Job description

Overview

scalable solutions and defining standards through collaboration with finance, engineering, architecture and product teams. As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

Responsibilities

• FinOps Tooling - Solution Design & Delivery: Design, plan and implement scalable FinOps systems and tools for cloud cost visibility, forecasting, and optimization. Build or integrate tools to aggregate billing data from AWS, Azure, GCP and SaaS platforms. Collaborate with DevOps and engineering to automate cost optimization processes (e.g., rightsizing, auto-scaling, scheduling).
• Strategy & Leadership: Develop and execute a FinOps roadmap to improve cost accountability and cloud financial management maturity. Serve as the primary solution designer for all FinOps-related tooling, reporting, and integrations. Define and enforce cloud cost governance policies, including tagging, budgeting, chargeback/showback, and resource allocation strategies. Educate, guide and influence the wider FinOps team and community on the development of the FinOps tooling ecosystem and navigation of HSBC processes.
• Reporting & Optimization: Build automated optimisation solutions and dashboards to deliver cost savings for HSBC. Deliver improved cost anomaly reporting solutions.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Finance, Engineering and Architecture to translate business needs into FinOps technical solutions. Act as a FinOps subject matter expert with the major technical stakeholder communities (e.g. architecture and engineering organizations). Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure resources are right‑sized and cost‑effective.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cloud solution design, cloud financial management, DevOps, or platform engineering/architecture.
• Experience with FinOps platforms such as Apptio, Cloudability, CloudHealth, Spot.io, ProsperOps, Power BI, Power Apps or custom-built tools.
• Strong knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g., BigQuery, Athena, Snowflake, Tableau, Looker).
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Location

This role is based in Sheffield; Birmingham can also be considered.

Equality & Diversity

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces—no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.