FinOps Specialist
The FinOps role sits within Architecture, Strategy & Delivery (ASD) and is accountable for establishing, operating and continuously improving a disciplined AWS FinOps capability at Flutter CEE organisation level. The role provides holistic visibility over AWS spend, usage, forecasts, cost drivers, optimisation opportunities, ownership gaps and financial risks across all Flutter CEE AWS platforms, accounts, services, workloads and initiatives. The role translates Flutter CEE strategy, CIO priorities, AWS platform usage patterns and delivery roadmaps into a practical FinOps operating model that gives CIO, CTO, CSO, Finance and technology stakeholders trusted cost insight, clear decision points and measurable optimisation actions. The FinOps role acts as the coordination owner for AWS cost governance across Flutter CEE, operating through ASD while partnering with Technology Service & Operations, IS Security, AI & Innovation Hub, Performance Intelligence, CTO Product Engineering, CSO/business stakeholders, Finance and Procurement where AWS consumption, cloud architecture or platform decisions affect financial control. The role owns the FinOps cadence, cost visibility model, showback and allocation approach, optimisation pipeline, forecast insight, consumption governance and reporting discipline required to connect AWS spend to strategy, architecture, delivery and budget decisions across Flutter CCE. This role does not own final enterprise strategy, final budget approvals, AWS platform engineering, architecture standards, product engineering delivery or procurement contract authority. It provides the FinOps leadership, financial insight, governance discipline and stakeholder coordination needed so those decisions are made with timely, trusted and actionable AWS cost intelligence.
- Own the creation of trusted AWS cost visibility across accounts, services, platforms, teams, products, markets, environments, and initiatives across Flutter CEE where data is available.
- Define and maintain FinOps reporting standards, cost KPIs, dashboards, executive summaries, trend analysis, anomaly reporting and decision-oriented views.
- Ensure AWS spend reporting explains cost drivers, forecast movement, variance causes, optimisation actions, ownership gaps and decisions required.
- Support annual budget planning, rolling forecasts, actuals tracking and spend-versus-plan analysis for AWS-related costs across Flutter CEE in partnership with the Budgeting & Reporting Specialist.
- Provide AWS consumption forecasts, cost risk insight, demand assumptions, investment implications and budget variance explanations for CIO and Finance stakeholders.
- Define and govern minimum AWS tagging, account, environment, service and cost allocation standards needed for ownership, showback and reporting.
- Work with platform, architecture, delivery and finance stakeholders to improve cost attribution across teams, initiatives, markets and services.
- Identify unallocated or poorly attributed spend and drive corrective actions with accountable owners.
- Own the AWS optimisation pipeline, ensuring opportunities are identified, qualified, prioritised, assigned, tracked and measured through to realised impact.
- Coordinate optimisation actions across relevant CIO, CTO and CSO stakeholders.
- Govern recommendations related to rightsizing, storage optimisation, unused resources, reserved commitments, savings plans, architecture choices and workload lifecycle management.
- Establish scheduled consumption planning so AWS capacity scales up for peak periods, seasonal demand, campaign windows and high-traffic hours, and scales down when demand reduces.
- Partner with Architecture and Delivery directions to embed cost awareness earlier in initiative planning, design reviews, Technical Design Authority inputs and delivery governance.
- Own stakeholder management for AWS FinOps across CIO, CTO, CSO and business stakeholders.
- Establish FinOps forums, working sessions, review cadences and communication routes focused on decisions, ownership and actions.
- Build FinOps awareness and practical capability across teams so cost ownership becomes part of everyday technology and delivery thinking.
- Strong experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, cloud cost governance, technology finance, cloud program management or infrastructure financial operations roles (required).
- Strong understanding of AWS cost and usage concepts, including accounts, services, billing dimensions, tagging, cost allocation, commitments, storage, compute, data transfer and common optimisation levers (required).
- Experience building cost visibility, dashboards, reporting routines, forecasts, variance explanations and executive-level cloud cost insight (required).
- Experience coordinating optimisation actions across platform, infrastructure, architecture, security, finance, procurement and delivery stakeholders (required).
- Experience operating in matrix environments where cost ownership, technical ownership and budget ownership sit with different stakeholders (required).
- Strong understanding of programme governance, RAID, dependency management, stakeholder management, reporting cadence and escalation practices (required).
- Ability to translate technical AWS consumption into clear financial insight, business impact, risks, options and decisions required (required).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to challenge unclear ownership, unmanaged consumption, weak cost allocation and unrealistic forecasts in a constructive way (required).
- Experience using cloud cost tools, AWS billing data, dashboards, spreadsheets, BI/reporting platforms or FinOps tooling to support decision-making (required).
- Ability to apply AI-enabled ways of working to improve analysis, reporting, summaries, governance preparation and stakeholder communication while maintaining human judgement and accountability (required).
- Generous annual leave
- Hybrid work
- Individual health insurance
- Paid sick leave
- Paid maternity & paternity leave
- Family reward
- Performance & referral bonuses
- Pension benefits
- Training and career progression opportunities
Flutter is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming company, operating some of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands in the sector such as FanDuel, Sky Betting and Sky Gaming, Paddy Power, PokerStars, Betfair, Sportsbet, Tombola, Adjarabet, Sisal, Snai, Betnacional, Junglee Games and MaxBet. We have an unparalleled portfolio of world-class brands, global scale and challenger mindset, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt our sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.