Lead Specialist - Cloud Financial Operations

Job Title: Lead Specialist Cloud FinOps  

Work Location: Bangalore, India (Hybrid), 

Working Shift: USA (6:30 PM IST to 3:30AM IST) 

As a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer for Pearson, you will join Pearson's Cloud FinOps team, working as part of a global Centre of Excellence focused on cloud cost transparency and optimisation across a multi-cloud estate. You will be responsible for collecting and analyzing data to provide Cloud financial insights critical to our success as a business. 

Required Responsibilities include, but not limited to: 

• Produce reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management and Senior Leaders. 

• Work effectively with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements, driving results in the form of data insights and building strategic partnerships. 

• Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs, retrieving data and modeling 

• Partner with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data. 

• Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs. 

• Provide cost optimization recommendations. 

• Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports. 

• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution. 

• Use tools and technology to make data driven decisions. 

• Collecting requirements for targeted automation projects; exploring potential solutions based on fit, up-skilling need, team skillsets, cost, and current and long-term strategies 

Required Skills 

• Python Data Analytics Skills 

• PowerBI Development 

• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP) 

• Cloud billing and cost management tools  

• FinOps commitment plan strategies such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts) 

• Agentic AI Experience 

• Advanced Excel  

• Financial principles and business analytics. 

• Cross-functional and global team collaboration 

• Self-starter who can also work independently and with a team to deliver superior customer service 

• Understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints. 

• Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets 

• Strong analytical background with an aptitude for understanding technology 

• Nice to have skills 

• Experience with 3rd party cloud cost optimization tools like Cloudability 

• Understanding of database and big data management capabilities and constraints  like RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalake, etc. 

• Experience managing or developing automation with object-oriented programming languages like Java or Python and understanding of appropriate use 

• Experience with the AWS Cloud platform and leveraging appropriate AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda) as part of development of automated solutions. 

• Experience leveraging REST API for extracting and/or posting data 

• Understanding of building and deploying Agentic solutions 

• Azure, GCP or AWS Certifications 

Qualifications 

Education (or equivalent work experience) 

• Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics or similar 

+7 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management or Technology Finance) 

Growth Opportunities exist for cross-training on AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, and support for FinOps Foundation certification.