Finops Data Analyst

WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 325 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100.

WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We are quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Key performance indicators for WPP (2020) include Billings of £46.9bn and Revenue of £12bn.

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Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

We are on a journey in establishing a FinOps capability and building a Central FinOps platform to recharge, visualise and optimise Cloud and SaaS spend at scale. The platform will empower WPP agencies to self-service manage their cloud and SaaS estates from a cost and optimisation perspectives.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in analysing data and creating visualization dashboards. Exposure to Finance and Cloud technologies and will be an advantage. You should be proficient in SQL to query complex data and translating into informative visuals on BI tools.

You’ll play a critical role in designing & developing our Central FinOps maturity, automating processes whilst developing a platform to enable cost recharging and self-service enablement capabilities to the business. 

What you'll be doing:

• Build and maintain cloud cost and usage visibility, providing summaries and detailed usage statistics initially for resources across the public clouds (Azure, GCP, AWS) and then expanding to SaaS and other IT services
• Experienced in creating data visualization and dashboards in BI tools, e.g., Looker, Power BI
• Experienced with SQL and querying complex data sets to generate useful insights
• Collaborate with the development and finance teams on cost optimization, budget, forecasting, and cross charging
• Monitor and setup real-time alerts based on data models to identify anomalies in cloud spend
• Passionate about the power of data to drive better business outcomes.

What you'll need:

This is a hands-on role, requiring the following behaviours and skills:

• 5+ years Data engineering working experience with a range of Data & Analytics technologies
  • ETL tools
  • BI tools – Looker, Power BI
  • AWS Data stack – AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Athena, RDS, DynamoDB
  • Data warehouse - Google BigQuery, Snowflake
  • Excel sheets
• Strong experience in writing SQL queries to analyse complex datasets
• Strong experience with Data architecture, Data Modelling, Data Quality and Data security
• Experience in developing complex queries and scripts for translating raw data into informative visuals
• Exposure to data science and ML is a plus

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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