FinOps Specialist

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of FinOps Specialist.

The role of the FinOps Specialist will be to lead the design and implementation of cloud financial operations (FinOps) strategies and tooling across our organization.

You will play a critical role in enabling cost transparency, governance, and optimization in our multi-cloud environment by building 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.

In this role you will:

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.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• 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.

This role is based in Sheffield.

Opening up a world of opportunity

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.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com

Telephone: +44 207 832 8500