Infrastructure FinOps Control Senior Manager

Location: Greater London

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Senior Manager - Fin/Ops
** Shift Pattern:
** Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom)
** Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

** 40
* * Corporate Grade:
** C - Vice President
** Reporting Line:**(UK Division) Information Technology
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* Location:

** UK-London
** Worker Type:
** Permanent
* * About the London Metal Exchange and LME Clear:
** The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world’s global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LME’s three trading platforms totalling $18 trillion, 178 million lots and 4 billion tonnes with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2024. All trades are cleared and settled by LME Clear.

Participants can transfer or take on price risk against aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, lead, molybdenum, cobalt, lithium, steel scrap, rebar and hot-rolled coil as well as alumina, aluminium premiums and alloys.

The LME and LME Clear are HKEX Group companies.
** Overall Purpose of Role****:
** The purpose of this role is to lead and integrate Fin Ops, audit, risk, and control practices within the Infrastructure Operations and Engineering function, ensuring that cloud and infrastructure investments are financially optimised, well-governed, and resilient. The role is responsible for driving financial accountability and transparency, implementing robust cost management and allocation standards, and partnering with engineering, finance, and business teams to translate financial and regulatory requirements into effective technical controls.

Through continuous monitoring, risk assessment, and control testing, the role safeguards operational resilience, supports compliance with internal and external standards, and fosters a culture of cost awareness and risk maturity across infrastructure teams. Ultimately, this position ensures that infrastructure services deliver maximum business value while meeting audit, risk, and regulatory expectations.
** Responsibilities:
*** Own and evolve cloud and infrastructure cost management practices, ensuring spend is transparent, forecastable, and aligned to business value.
* Implement and maintain tagging, labelling, and cost allocation standards for all cloud and infrastructure resources.
* Partner with engineering, finance, and business teams to translate financial requirements into practical technical controls and automated reporting.
* Continuously monitor spend, identify optimisation opportunities (e.g., rightsizing, eliminating unused resources), and drive remediation actions.
* Support budgeting, forecasting, and chargeback processes for cloud and infrastructure services.
* Provide regular reporting and insights to senior management on cost trends, risks, and optimisation initiatives.
* Foster a culture of financial accountability and cost awareness across infrastructure teams.
* Stay current with Fin Ops best practices and industry standards, adapting processes as needed.
* Own and maintain technical controls, ensure controls align to internal policies, regulatory requirements and industry standards.
* Translate risk and compliance requirements into practical technical controls, ensuring controls are automated by default where possible to reduce manual effort and error.
* Continuously monitor the effectiveness of controls, identify control gaps, weakness or failures and drive remediation.
* Support risk assessments and regulatory reviews, providing evidence for internal audit , external audit and regulatory customer assurance. Tracking and managing control exceptions and risk acceptance.
* Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation for: control design, control operation procedures and control testing results.
* Continue to review and improve controls in response to regulatory updates, new threats, platform changes and identify opportunities to increase automation, reduce control friction and improve visibility and reporting.
* Identify and ensure cloud and infrastructure spend is transparent, optimised forecastable…