Senior Principal - Cloud FinOps Manager

Business Introduction GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges. Job Purpose  Accountable for enterprise cloud rate optimization across Azure and GCP and for the FinOps service that gives GSK a single, trusted view of cloud cost - directly influencing multi-million-pound savings, commitment strategy and cloud financial decisions. The role leads savings plans, reservations, commitments and discount strategies, monitors utilization and realized savings, and ensures negotiated commercial benefits are reflected in billing. It also owns the FinOps platform direction and roadmap, prioritizing the cost, allocation and consumption capabilities that underpin forecasting, chargeback, optimization and commercial decisions across the enterprise. Key Responsibilities Rate Optimization and Commitments • Lead savings plans, reservations, commitments and discount strategies across cloud providers (Azure & GCP), using consumption, growth and forecast information. • Track commitment coverage and utilization, prepayments, cost avoidance, realized savings and contracted benefits through KPIs and leadership reporting. • Assess provider pricing changes and define actions to address the financial impact. • Confirm negotiated rates, discounts and commitments are correctly reflected in billing and reporting. • Inform supplier negotiations, renewals and commercial decisions with rate and consumption analysis.   FinOps Platform Ownership • Define and maintain the platform vision, strategy and roadmap, prioritizing data, allocation, reporting and automation improvements based on customer requirements, business value and operational need. • Translate priorities into platform capabilities and coordinate feasibility, delivery, dependencies, release readiness and rollout with the FinOps platform vendor. • Oversee platform access, permissions, vendor support, operational issues, availability and data quality. • Maintain billing and usage data ingestion, integrations, data pipelines and automations. • Lead vendor evaluations, RFPs, contract renewals and service cost allocation. • Govern access controls, approved enterprise integrations and ingestion of billing data from cloud providers. • Establish target users, value messaging, onboarding, training and communications for new capabilities. • Use adoption, usage, success measures and stakeholder feedback to improve the platform and refine priorities.   Cost Allocation, Reporting and Data Quality • Maintain the enterprise tagging standard, allocation rules, account structures, business mappings and cost ownership and chargeback logic, including organizational changes. • Produce allocated cloud cost data for reporting, forecasting, chargeback and cost recovery. • Maintain platform views, account groups, dashboards, reports, custom metrics and API extracts, including configured reporting for AI, Databricks, containers and shared services. • Monitor and investigate anomalies, unexpected increases, allocation issues, incomplete data and processing delays.   Governance and Enablement • Maintain policies, controls, standards,