Managing Consultant - Cloud Economics / FinOps

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose. Your Role As a Managing Consultant within the Cloud Economics team at Capgemini Invent you will be part of our Cloud Advisory capability within the wider Business Technology capability unit. Our cloud advisory capability aims to inspire, lead and support organisations on their journey of adopting cloud for creating business and revenue models, generating growth, ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing their carbon footprint. The Cloud Economics function covers Cloud Business Case, FinOps and Cloud Value Realisation. You will focus on advising our clients on processes and solutions that will help ensure that they are gaining the greatest value from their cloud solutions at all stages of the cloud adoption journey. You will be required to work and communicate with all levels of an organisation to collaboratively innovate, design and implement new cloud economics models. You'll bring an acute sense of market trends and the challenges facing our clients, to deliver lasting and sustainable organisation transformations. In this role you will play a key role in:

• Cost Optimisation, Analysis: Review and analyse cloud usage patterns to identify cost saving opportunities. Guide cloud users on methods to optimise cloud usage, establish and enforce budget-aligned policies for financial accountability.
• Financial Reporting and Analysis: Prepare detailed financial reports including forecasting and present these to senior client management and application teams to highlight cloud spend and trajectory to provide visibility into cloud spending
• Policy and governance: Establish cloud governance policies, guardrails and best practice to assure cost control.
• Training and enablement: Provide training on FinOps best practices and establish mechanisms to promote a culture of accountability and cost awareness.
• Vendor engagement: Engage and manage relationships with cloud vendors.
As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:
• Business Development - Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal Contribution - Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & Development - Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.
  
  Here are some of the key skills and experience we would like but not limited to, as we value and appreciate the diverse backgrounds and experience everyone brings:
• Experience of working on FinOps projects and initiatives
• Setup and definition of Cloud FinOps CoEs and governance models for large or mid-sized organisations
• FinOps certified (desirable) (Capgemini will support and sponsor employees in obtaining FinOps practitioner certification after joining)
• Experience of working with one or more cloud vendors including AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Good understanding of billing and metering for cloud platforms and TCO analysis based on usage
• Hands-on working experience in one or more FinOps and TBM tools like Cloudability, CloudCheckr, Cloudhealth, AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management etc.
• Good understanding of cloud cost optimisation techniques across storage, data transfer, compute, database and monitoring.
• Good understanding of cloud contracting models, commitment models and licensing models
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Being comfortable in a client-facing role, with previous consulting or advisory experience (desirable)
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• Business development - utilising a combination of the organisation's broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you'll be generating consulting revenues
Nice to have but not essential
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
  
  Join the close-knit, rapidly growing Cloud Transformation Tribe at Capgemini Invent, where you'll play a key role in helping top organisations unlock the full potential of their cloud investments. As part of our team, you'll work on impactful projects that drive innovation and efficiency, collaborating closely with experts in a supportive, agile environment that values growth, learning, and teamwork. If you're excited to be part of a dynamic group making real transformations in cloud technology, Capgemini Invent is the place to grow.
We provide a host of opportunities for learning and certification through internal and partner led programmes from AWS, Google and Microsoft and hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. We are delighted to have received the "Glassdoor Best Places to work UK' accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it's like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page Diversity and Inclusion At Capgemini we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work. We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy, We're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing. Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance. About Capgemini Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.