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SalaryAbout The Role
This position is a great opportunity for the right person to be part of an exciting IT Operations Team that is at the forefront of maximising value for its business and stakeholders. Reporting into the IT Procurement Partner Lead, this is a highly accountable role focusing on working with our 3rd Party Cloud Partner and our internal Cloud Service Owners to drive value and best practice
Key Responsibilities
- Manage AWS Invoicing, liaising with internal Finance Teams and AWS to settle queries.
- Produce monthly reporting on spend, along with necessary commentary for exec review.
- Consult with Cloud Service owners to deliver cost savings based on Cloud optimization recommendations.
- Monitor and report on cost optimization opportunities and work closely with Cloud Service owner on the Cloud cost optimization activities.
- Review and refine a tagging framework and governance model.
- Work closely with Cloud Engineering and Platform teams to implement cost optimisation best practices.
- Lead cost optimisation meetings with various stakeholders to drive continuous improvement of best practice.
- Building, maintaining and developing excellent relationships with Suppliers and internal stakeholders.
About You
- You will have worked with colleagues across technology functions on successful, medium-large scale, cloud transformation programmes.
- A strong understanding of the various AWS discount initiatives.
- A passionate financial cloud advocate and who has an understanding of both financial cost management as well as infrastructure and cloud best practices.
- You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to operate well in an Agile delivery framework.
As a minimum for this role, you will need to have extensive experience of:
- You’ve operated as a cloud engineer or similar but wish to pursue a most cost focused route.
- Knowledge of AWS Services and Discount Programmes.
- An understanding of basic cloud infrastructure.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, organisational and communication skills.
- Demonstrable experience using Analytics tools eg Cost Explorer, Quicksight
- Working in a matrix management environment.
About The Company
Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
- We find solutions
- We drive change
- We care
We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.
As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:
- Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
- 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
- 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
- Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
- 1 day for volunteering
- Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
- Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
- Funded health screening for over 50s
- Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
- Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
- Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
- Generous family leave policies
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
