Finops Solutions Architect

**WPP** is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.** **Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.** **We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.** **WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations - from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.** **Why we're hiring**: At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data. As we progress on this journey, we need to ensure we understand, in real time, the economics of our technology spend and how it is driving and enabling broader business value. As a result, we're investing in a new FinOps function that will span our entire IT spend across our globally distributed businesses and teams. You'll play a critical role in developing our FinOps maturity, embedding process and best practice whilst driving insight and cost optimisation for our business. You'll be a strategic advisor and critical thinking, and be part of a new revolution in WPP **What you'll be doing**: - Support the implementation and adoption of FinOps practices for WPP, including tools, cost models, operational processes, governance, and controls for our global public cloud spend (>$40m per annum). - Creation and delivery of insightful FinOps reports and recommendations to our internal customers - Drive a practice and culture of proactive cost management and optimisation to help our internal stakeholders rapidly control our costs but importantly deliver value - Implement our tagging strategy and other foundational processes, working with our Cloud Hub team, to drive sustainable insight on our cloud estate and operational efficiency through automation - Build and maintain a suite of real-time cloud cost insights to identity and drive cost optimisation opportunities and build the ability to link cloud services to business value - Work closely with business stakeholders to create a step change in cost transparency, spend forecasting and ensure efficient consumption and usage through rightsizing, reserved instance and utilisation - Support the design and delivery of a range of educational activities and materials to embed a FinOps culture, mindset, and behaviours across the IT organisation **What you'll need**: **Qualification Requirements (Desirable)** - Degree in engineering, computer science, finance or equivalent (i.e. MBA) desirable but not essential - FinOps or TBM qualifications (or equivalent) - Finance or accounting qualifications (desirable) **Skills / Experience Requirements** - Experience of using cloud cost management tools (Cloudability preferable, as well as native tools) - Experience in effective IT cost management strategies, tools, models, and processes - Knowledge of Public Cloud offerings, consumption models and billing concepts - Expert data & analytical skills with the ability to gather, analyse and interpret significant amounts of information accurately - Relevant experience in helping businesses understand the economics of shifting from on premise architecture to SAAS, PAAS and IAAS - Proven experience to translate customer needs and strategies into reporting, analytics, data, and stakeholder management necessary to drive business value - Strong communicator with a track record of operating, partnering with and influencing up to and including exec-level stakeholders - Ability to operate and lead in a fast-paced organizational transformation and able to navigate and champion change across organisational / geographical complexity **Who you are**: **You're open**_:_** **We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working. **You're optimistic**_:_** We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected. **You're extraordinary**: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achie