Head of Cloud Financial Management and Optimization (f/m/d)

Deutsche Börse AG • Frankfurt am Main, Prague

Learn. Develop. Grow. But always: Share value

Join our international team that drives positive change, united by a spirit of openness and curiosity. We empower you to have an impact and to grow – personally and professionally. With us, you work at the heart of financial systems and evolve the way markets operate. We’re excited about the future because we are the ones shaping it. Let´s do this together by sharing value!

Who we are

Tracing its origins to 1585, Deutsche Börse Group has become one of the world’s leading exchange organisations and an innovative market infrastructure provider. In this role, we provide investors, financial institutions and companies access to global capital markets. What’s your part in all this? With your commitment you contribute to the success of our unique business model: offering a wide range of products, services and technologies for security, transparency and integrity on the markets. By creating trust in the markets of today and tomorrow we foster growth and contribute to the prosperity of future generations.

Frankfurt am Main, Prague

Your career at Deutsche Börse Group

Your area of work:
In your new position as a Head of Unit Cloud Financial Management and Optimization, you will act as a business partner supporting our global IT organization to monitor, steer and optimize Cloud costs.
The Chief of Staff/ IT strategy division supports the leadership team in financial steering across the CIO/COO organization. It is the interface between the Division management, the various business areas within the Division, the corporate central functions, and the various market business segments of Deutsche Börse Group. Being the main interface to the central functions of the group, the Chief of Staff/ IT strategy department is responsible for effective and efficient interface management and the development of well-structured solutions as decision proposals.

If you would describe yourself as a person with good communication, analytical- and implementation skills and a “self-starter” mentality this position offers you some great opportunities!

Your responsibilities:

Define and Implement FinOps Strategy that aligns with the financial mid-term targets
Financial Management and Cost optimization:
- Cloud Cost Forecasting and Budgeting: lead cloud budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes, ensuring cloud expenses are predictable and within budget
- Cloud spent visibility and reporting, including creation of dashboards, reports and KPIs to provide visibility into cloud usage and cost drivers across teams and services
- Cost allocation and chargeback to ensure teams are accountable for their cloud usage
Cost control and operational efficiency:
- Cost optimization and reduction: identify areas for cost reduction, such as underutilized or over-provisioned resources, and recommend actions like rightsizing or further reserved instance commitment
- Resource usage management including tagging strategies for better visibility and control
- Automation and tooling: implement automation tools and scripts for instance scheduling, idle resource identification and auto-scaling to reduce cost
- Monitor and mitigate cost anomalies
(Data-) Analytics:
- Use data analytics and modelling to identify cost-saving opportunities and predict cloud usage patterns
- Cloud Usage optimization, work with DevOps, Engineering, and product IT teams to ensure that cloud-native development practices (like serverless, containerization, and autoscaling) are cost-effective
Team Leadership and education:
- Lead, mentor and develop the team of FinOps and Financial analyst
- Cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless understanding of cloud spending
Act overall as a business partner and enable proper decision making

Your profile:

Academic degree in economics, finance or similar degree in a relevant field of expertise
5+ years of professional experience, ideally first team/ leadership experience
Deep understanding of cloud pricing models (GCP and Azure), reserved instances, and savings plans
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP and Azure) and DevOps practices to guide technical teams on cost-efficient design
Independent way of working and a high sense of responsibility in task delivery and result orientation
Customer-oriented and solution-driven working methods
Excellent knowledge of German and English in speaking and writing

Why Deutsche Börse Group?

We are committed to providing a work environment where everyone feels welcome and can reach their full potential. Our standards go far beyond simply matching candidates with the right position.

Mobility

We enable you to move freely with our job tickets, job (e-)bikes and free parking opportunities.

Work environment

Collaboration, communication, or deep focus – in our modern office buildings you will find the perfect work environment. Free drinks and food and meal allowances included.

Health and wellbeing

We care for your health and wellbeing and besides various health promotion measures we offer you a group accident insurance and additional insurance offers at discounted rates.

Financial stability

We provide financial stability by offering attractive salaries, company pension schemes, participation in our Group Share Plan, as well as bonuses, subsidies and discounts.

Hybrid work

Collaborate and exchange on-site or work remotely several days a week in line with business needs and local regulations. Our hybrid working model combines the best of both worlds.

Flexible working hours

We want your job to fit your life situation and offer flexible working time models, childcare allowance, or the possibility to study alongside your job.

Internationality

Our market infrastructures are globally connected. Working with us means collaborating with like-minded colleagues across over 60 locations from more than 100 nations.