IT Asset Manager (FinOps)

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP); Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK government department is seeking an IT Asset Manager (FinOps) in Manchester to oversee cloud cost optimization and develop management standards. The role involves managing assets, analyzing cloud data, and creating reports in PowerBI to provide actionable insights. You'll ensure that cloud investments deliver value across services that impact 22 million users daily. Join a pivotal team in a major digital transformation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in asset management processes and procedures.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret cloud usage and cost data.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop asset management standards and plans.
• Track and measure cloud usage and cost profile.
• Build reports in Microsoft PowerBI to present data insights.

Skills

Cloud Analytics

Asset Management

Microsoft PowerBI

Job description

We are looking for an IT Asset Manager (FinOps) to support the HCS Transformation and Governance FinOps team, who are responsible for delivering high‑quality analysis of departmental Digital Cloud Services to increase the organisation's ability to understand cloud costs and provide accountability to variable cloud spending. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage and optimise our cloud infrastructure costs, ensuring investment in technology delivers real value. Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop asset management standards, plans, processes and procedures based on organisational policies and standards.
• Agree the scope of asset management standards, plans, processes and procedures with stakeholders to optimise the capture and use of asset management data.
• Manage asset management plans and ensure that changes to them are properly impacted, approved and communicated.
• Develop and apply processes, techniques and tools to capture, track, correct and report on assets and associated data to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Support the creation of formal Asset Management baselines.
• Use Asset Management data to carry out impact assessment of changes to software and hardware volumes and provide team approval for changes where applicable.
• Verify implemented changes to protect against unauthorised change and accidental non‑compliance.
• Update asset data as part of the implementation of approved changes.
• Ensure that process interfaces with other functions are clearly defined.
• Audit asset management data to check for accuracy and address or recommend corrective actions.
• Report on the status of asset management data and process performance.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues, escalating them via your manager or the relevant stakeholder as appropriate.
• Track/measure cloud usage and cost profile and use data to inform key stakeholders of potential opportunities for cost efficiencies with Digital Cloud Services.
• Monitor efficiencies for continual improvement and track delivery.
• Be skilled in Cloud Analytics dimensions and metrics and understand the limitations of these.
• Build and create quality accessible reports in Microsoft PowerBI.
• Deliver high‑quality analysis that provides meaningful and actionable insights to improve the service, proactively offering suggestions of ways to improve the service.
• Identify and communicate Cloud service performance, actionable stories and business insights from the data to stakeholders and the team, to inform design and optimisation decisions.
• Supply high‑quality service data via the performance platform and other internal dashboards to allow data‑driven decisions based on visualisations, alerts, dashboards and feeds.

Disability Confident

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Are you ready to take ownership of cloud cost optimisation at a scale few organisations can match—impacting services used by 22 million people every day? Do you want to shape how one of Europe's largest digital transformations manages its hybrid cloud investments, ensuring every pound delivers real value? Could your expertise in FinOps and cloud governance help drive accountability and innovation across a multi‑cloud environment in a mission‑critical public service? This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) and to be part of the biggest digital transformations in Europe, implementing leading edge technologies with the user at the centre of everything we do—we create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users.