Location

This role is based in our Leeds office. We work to a hybrid model of 3 days together, 2 days wherever.

Why this job matters

BT is accelerating its move over to the Public Cloud, and this move comes with a need to have a change in the way we perceive infrastructure costs that have historically been on-premises and more rigid in nature. Cloud allows us immense flexibility with its Pay-As-You-Go model which if not actively managed, can spiral out of control.  

You would be part of the Cloud Business Office team’s FinOps squad which focuses on working with engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure they are leveraging the full economic potential of Cloud through sound cloud financial management. You would be using both financial and technical acumen to collaborate across multiple business owners to help drive successful IT transformation by explaining the value proposition of Cloud model to all our stakeholders, ensure there is minimal to no wastage and keep optimising our usage to maximise value for BT. 

What you’ll be doing

• Manage critical relationships with stakeholders like engineers, Finance business partners, FinOps champions, Cloud CoE FinOps squad and Google. 
• Keeping up to-date with latest, more performant, and cost-effective services launched by Google, analyse its applicability to BT and promote its usage amongst engineers.
• Promote FinOps mind-set pan-BT to all the cloud-using engineering teams agnostic of the Cloud provider (i.e., Google, AWS, Azure) 
• Constantly monitor BT-level GCP spend and work with engineers to implement optimisation opportunities and purchase the right rates optimisation products. 
• Build and maintain reports including dashboards suitable for key stakeholders of public cloud.
• Build plans, budgets, forecasts and variance analysis on public cloud consumption. 
• Link activity into financial processes and cycles for example providing variance analysis to budgets during month-end reporting. 
• Ensure chargeback and showback processes are fully operational.  
• Establish guardrails / policies to detect and remove usage waste. 
• Continuously improve front door and in-life processes, ensuring the right data is captured to drive all aspects of cost transparency, optimisation, and financial accountability. 
• Work with Finance teams to ensure correct accounting is applied according to IFRS and Group Accounting Policy, for example capitalising test / dev activity or booking accruals during financial close. 

Skills and Experience

Required

• Experience with developing scripts using languages like Python, SQL, and Terraform to implement automated cost optimization control & attribution policies. 
• Experience building and managing Cloud Cost analysis & visualizations using tools like Looker, Qlik, MS Excel, Tableau or any other similar tool.  
• Good with data queries, generating actionable, concise, and presentable data visualizations. 
• Proficient in Git, Cloud Shell and Big Query.  
• Understanding of GCP Cloud fundamentals in FinOps to manage Cloud Budget, Forecast, Spend monitoring, purchasing various Commitments, deriving Cloud Cost Optimization across the Organization.  

Desired

• Have hands-on experience querying data via SQL.  
• Good with ETL pipeline setup and development. 
• Experience in managing and deployment of GCP services such as Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Compute Engine, Vertex AI, Cloud Spanner,GKE, GCS, DataFlow and Composer, pub/sub, BigQuery, VPC and Subnets provisioning both manual provisioning in GCP Console and using Terraform.  
• Certification in FinOps Foundation practitioner is desired. 
• Certification in Google fundamentals or higher would be highly preferred. 

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Direct share scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
• 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM Only plans & airtime element off a Flex Pay plan

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.  

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.