FinOps Manager

Our NielsenIQ Enterprise Platforms team ensures the strategy, design, delivery, deployment, maintenance, and support of our corporate technologies is best-in-class. More than 30,000 global employees rely on our team to support the systems and tools integral to NielsenIQ’s success. We therefore partner closely with all areas of the business, including HRIS, Finance, Recruitment, T&E, Procurement, and more.

We are a forward-thinking organization targeting current technology that enables our employees to be efficient using best practices.

The FinOps Managers owns the end-to-end lifecycle for cloud financial management across NielsenIQ including spend, forecasting, and optimization. NielsenIQ is looking for a driven manager with demonstrated experience building and maturing Cloud FinOps capabilities. This person will be responsible for working with a range of internal stakeholders to design, develop and manage reports dashboards. You will help ensure the operational success of the NielsenIQs cloud expansion strategy. The ideal candidate will need strong analytical, cross-team collaboration, and multi-tasking skills that can execute and deliver quickly.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include:

• Build, supervise and improve real-time cloud cost and consumption dashboards and forecasts for executive committee briefings, corporate finance workflows and engineering transparency
• Drive cost optimization efforts by collaborating with Finance and Engineering teams across the enterprise, recommending and purchasing reserved instances & savings plans across Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Partner with our Cloud Governance Council to ensure appropriate tagging and alerts strategies are deployed and maintained at scale to manage costs
• Work with product teams to accurately cost out implementations
• Develop and maintain KPIs, scorecards, and standard metrics

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience with technology operations, business management, or FP&A
• 2+ years of experience with Azure is preferred
• Significant experience with cost optimization
• Experience in building out a FinOps subject area within a large enterprise
• Deep cost management knowledge including but not limited to chargeback modeling, cost savings and avoidance tracking, trending and variance analysis and forecasting
• Practical knowledge of native cloud provider cost management capabilities and pricing models
• Experience with third-party cloud aggregator software with direct experience in anomaly detection, capacity planning and rightsizing, tagging and storage lifecycle policies, and automation
• Analytical skills to collect, coordinate and present sophisticated data to a variety of audiences
• Experience in developing KPI’s and scorecards based on internal and industry benchmarks
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.

NielsenIQ is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.