Cloud FinOps Senior Lead

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Job Description
The Future Begins Here: At Takeda, we are creating a future-ready organization that uses data and digital to meet the needs of patients, our people, and the planet. We need your help to make this happen. Join our Innovation Capability Center (ICC) in Bratislava, Slovakia. In this role at our state-of-the-art center, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and create solutions that will benefit patients around the world. Become the heart of our internal innovation engine.
THE OPPORTUNTY
The Cloud FinOps Senior Lead is an integral member 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.
By using both financial and technical acumen to collaborate across multiple business owners, you will drive successful IT transformation by explaining the value proposition of the Cloud model to all our business unit stakeholders, ensuring there is minimal to no waste and continuously helping optimize our usage for the greatest value to Takeda.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage critical relationships with stakeholders like engineers, Finance business partners, FinOps key stakeholders, cloud architects, and key vendors (ie. AWS).
• Keep up to-date with latest, more performant, and cost-effective services launched by AWS, analyse its applicability to Takeda applications and promote its usage amongst engineers and business owners.
• Promote FinOps mind-set to all the cloud-using teams while being mindful of various challenges that exist across a large application portfolio.
• Constantly monitor cloud spend for each business unit and work with engineers to implement optimization opportunities including help advise on Reservation/Savings Plan purchases.
• Build and maintain reports including dashboards suitable for key stakeholders of cloud.
• Build plans, budgets, forecasts and variance analysis on cloud consumption.
• Link activity into financial processes and cycles for example providing variance analysis to budgets during month-end reporting.
• Ensure chargeback and show back 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, optimization, and financial accountability.
• Work with Finance teams to ensure correct accounting is applied according to Group Accounting Policy and assisting in booking accruals during financial close.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Experience Requirements:

• Understanding of AWS Cloud fundamentals in FinOps to manage cloud budget, forecast, spend monitoring, purchasing various commitments, deriving Cloud Cost Optimization across the organization.
• Experience building and managing Cloud Cost analysis & visualizations using tools like Apptio, MS Excel, Power BI or any other similar tool.
• Good with data queries, generating actionable, concise, and presentable data visualizations.

Desired:

• Experience with developing scripts using languages like Python, SQL, and Terraform to implement automated cost optimization control & attribution policies.
• Certification as FinOps Foundation practitioner.
• Certification in AWS fundamentals or higher.

WHAT TAKEDA CAN OFFER YOU
Ready to embark on an exciting career journey? Join us in our office location in Bratislava, Slovakia or Lodz, Poland and enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid working arrangement, blending the best of both worlds; office collaboration and the comfort of working at home
At Takeda, you may build your career, while contributing to better people's lives. Expect trust driven culture built around Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance. Joining ICC will give you access to high end technology, training and colleagues who will support your growth.
Salary

• In Bratislava: As a motivated employee, you should be compensated appropriately. The minimum salary for this position is € 3850 per month (full time), but your final remuneration package may be higher depending on your qualifications and experience.

• In Lodz: As a motivated employee, you should be compensated appropriately. The minimum salary for this position is PLN 14.600 per month (full time), but your final remuneration package may be higher depending on your qualifications and experience.

Benefits
Here are a few benefits our employees are enjoying at Takeda. To get a full picture of what we are offering, follow this link.

• Cafeteria
• Medical - High standard medical care
• Bridge days
• Summer Hours
• Multisport Card

Your application and all conversations that occur with the recruiter, HR, and the hiring manager as part of that application will be treated in the strictest confidence.
At Takeda's ICC we Unite in Diversity
Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team.
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Locations
Lodz, Poland
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time