Consultant/Senior Consultant - Cloud Economics/FinOps

Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

As a FinOps Consultant, you will play a crucial role in optimising cloud costs and enhancing financial accountability within organisations, with an awareness of how AI‑enabled workloads and AI‑assisted capabilities are increasingly influencing cloud consumption patterns, cost models, and financial governance. 

Your responsibilities will include reviewing and analysing cloud usage patterns to identify cost‑saving opportunities, preparing detailed financial reports, and establishing comprehensive cloud governance policies. You will also provide training on FinOps best practices, promote a culture of cost awareness, and manage relationships with cloud vendors to ensure optimal service delivery and cost efficiency. Your expertise will help organisations achieve financial transparency and sustainable cloud cost management. 

In this role you will play a key role in: 

Cost Optimisation - Review and analyse cloud usage patterns to identify cost-saving opportunities. Guide cloud users on methods to optimize cloud usage, establish and enforce budget-aligned policies for financial accountability, and implement automated solutions for continuous cost monitoring and optimisation. 

Financial Reporting and Analysis - Prepare detailed financial reports, including forecasting and variance analysis. Present these reports to senior client management and application teams to highlight cloud spend and trajectory, providing visibility into cloud spending trends and actionable insights for cost management. 

Policy and Governance - Establish and enforce comprehensive cloud governance policies, guardrails, and best practices to ensure cost control and compliance. Develop and maintain a governance framework that aligns with organisational objectives. 

Training and Enablement.- Provide training on FinOps best practices and establish mechanisms to promote a culture of accountability and cost awareness. Develop and deliver workshops, training sessions, and educational materials to empower teams with the knowledge and tools needed for effective cloud financial management. 

Vendor Engagement - Engage and manage relationships with cloud vendors to ensure optimal service delivery and cost efficiency. Collaborate to leverage their expertise and resources for continuous improvement in cloud cost management. 

AI & FinOps – Maintain awareness of how AI impacts FinOps (FinOps for AI), including the cost and governance implications of AI‑driven workloads, and how AI‑assisted tooling (AI for FinOps) can support forecasting, anomaly detection, insights generation, and optimisation activities. 

Key expectations from this role include: 

As a Consultant: lead a stream of work and produce high quality deliverables, providing key input to shape the strategic direction and support the design of propositions. 

As a Senior Consultant: design and lead projects / multiple streams taking ownership for elements of the proposition. 

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal Contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities),   offering development.
• Learning & Development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your Profile

We're looking for someone who can bring together hands-on FinOps experience, cloud advisory capabilities, stakeholder engagement, and business development skills to shape and deliver impactful client solutions.

• Experience of working on FinOps projects and initiatives. Setting up and defining Cloud FinOps CoE’s and governance models for large or mid-sized organisations. 
• Comfortability in a client-facing role, with previous consulting or advisory experience (desirable). 
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organization, enlisting support and commitment from peers and delivering solutions. 
• Experience of working with one or more cloud vendors including AWS, Azure and GCP. Hands-on experience in one or more FinOps tool e.g. Cloudability, CloudCheckr, CloudHealth etc. Good, all-round understanding of cloud cost optimisation techniques across compute, storage, database, data transfer and monitoring. 
• FinOps certified (desirable) (Capgemini will support and sponsor employees in obtaining FinOps practitioner certification after joining)  
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions. 
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.  
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network. 

What You'll Love About Working Here

Join the close-knit, rapidly growing Cloud Transformation Tribe at Capgemini Invent, where you’ll play a key role in helping top organisations unlock the full potential of their cloud investments. As part of our team, you’ll work on impactful projects that drive innovation and efficiency, collaborating closely with experts in a supportive, agile environment that values growth, learning, and teamwork. If you’re excited to be part of a dynamic group making real transformations in cloud technology, Capgemini Invent is the place to grow.

We provide a host of opportunities for learning and certification through internal and partner led programmes from AWS, Google and Microsoft and  hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. 

Need To Know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about.  In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.