FinOps Senior Specialist - Group Technology

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We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Fin Ops Specialist to lead the establishment, implementation, and ongoing maturity of Alexforbes’ enterprise Fin Ops capability across cloud, SaaS, and technology cost management environments. This role serves as the internal Fin Ops capability owner, partnering across Technology, Finance, Procurement, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Operations, Business Units, and external service providers to ensure technology spend is transparent, governed, forecastable, optimised, and aligned to business value.

The successful candidate will drive Fin Ops governance, cost transparency, reporting, forecasting, optimisation initiatives, stakeholder enablement, and Fin Ops adoption across the organisation. This is a strategic capability-building role focused on embedding sustainable Fin Ops practices into budgeting, forecasting, cloud governance, procurement, architecture, and operational decision-making.

• Lead and drive the Fin Ops capability across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise technology cost management.
• Define and implement the Fin Ops operating model, governance structures, and maturity roadmap.
• Partner with Finance, Technology, Procurement, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to establish long-term Fin Ops capabilities.
• Develop and execute annual and quarterly Fin Ops planning cycles.
• Ensure alignment with recognised Fin Ops Foundation practices and industry standards.
• Drive expansion of Fin Ops principles across both cloud and on-premise technology environments.

• Act as the primary business owner of the outsourced Fin Ops partner relationship.
• Manage delivery against agreed scope, milestones, service levels, and value realisation objectives.
• Review and challenge partner recommendations while ensuring implementation through appropriate governance forums.
• Maintain a prioritised Fin Ops delivery backlog covering governance, reporting, optimisation, automation, training, and process improvements.
• Ensure effective knowledge transfer and capability development within the organisation.

• Establish and maintain Fin Ops governance structures, accountability models, and management reporting frameworks.
• Develop standards for tagging, cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Integrate Fin Ops requirements into cloud governance, procurement, architecture reviews, budgeting, and operational reporting processes.
• Support internal audit and governance teams through robust Fin Ops control frameworks and evidence management.
• Drive Fin Ops policy adoption and operational discipline across stakeholder groups.

• Drive accurate visibility and reporting across cloud, SaaS, and technology spend.
• Own chargeback/showback methodologies, tagging compliance, cost allocation rules, and business ownership models.
• Support executive, finance, technology, and business-unit reporting requirements.
• Ensure timely and meaningful reporting on spend, budget variance, allocation accuracy, utilisation, and optimisation opportunities.
• Improve data quality, reporting automation, and decision-making visibility.

• Support technology budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning activities.
• Improve forecast accuracy and reduce unplanned cost volatility.
• Monitor actual spend, forecasts, anomalies, commitments, and optimisation opportunities.
• Track run‑rate trends, budget consumption, cost avoidance, and realised savings.
• Ensure technology investment decisions are informed by sound financial and business value analysis.
• Lead identification, prioritisation, and execution of optimisation opportunities.
• Drive initiatives such as rightsizing, decommissioning, licensing optimisation, SaaS rationalisation, reserved capacity management, and demand-control measures.
• Track realised savings, avoided costs, utilisation improvements, and business value outcomes.
• Ensure optimisation efforts are governed, measurable, and aligned to business objectives.
• Deliver ongoing value realisation reporting and…