Infrastructure FinOps Control Senior Manager

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

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 FinOps, 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 FinOps 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 and aligned to business value, in addition to embedding strong financial governance across platforms and teams.
• Review infrastructure financial planning with resilience objectives and provide reporting for the avoidance of underfunding of critical systems.
• Ensure accurate cost allocation using, tagging and labelling standards.
• Support annual and rolling budgets for cloud, infrastructure and platform services, whilst partnering with business entities to understand demand drivers and upcoming changes. 
• Identify and drive cost optimisation opportunities, including rightsizing compute and storage, removing unused or orphaned resources, reviewing lichenising costs. 
• Own and oversee the identification, assessment and mitigation of infrastructure related risk, define and track risk mitigation or acceptance plans as well as providing clear reporting to senior management.
• Strengthen infrastructure resilience and recoverability, by reporting on various hygiene factors such as patching/vulnerability compliance as well as driving remediation. Ensure DR Plans are tested regularly and lessons learned are embedded.  Supporting operational resilience scenario testing and impact tolerances.
• Help drive risk maturity in the infrastructure teams. 

Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience:

Proven experience in financial operations (FinOps), audit, risk management, or controls within an IT or infrastructure environment

Hands-on experience with cost management, financial reporting, and optimisation

Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and industry standards

Extensive experience in FinOps, Audit and Control field, preferably within a regulated environment.

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role:

Strong analytical and data interpretation skills

Ability to communicate complex financial and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Demonstrated commitment to continuous professional development in FinOps, audit, risk, and control disciplines

Personal Qualities:

Analytical mindset: Able to interpret complex financial, technical, and risk data, identify trends, and draw actionable insights.

Attention to detail: Meticulous in monitoring spend, controls, and compliance, ensuring accuracy in reporting and documentation.

Integrity and objectivity: Maintains high ethical standards, acts with honesty, and provides unbiased advice, even when challenging senior stakeholders.

Effective communicator: Can clearly explain complex financial and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and produce concise, actionable reports.

Collaborative approach: Works well across engineering, finance, audit, risk, and business teams, fostering a culture of shared accountability and open communication.

Problem-solving orientation: Proactively identifies optimisation opportunities, control gaps, and risks, and drives remediation with creativity and persistence.

Resilience and adaptability: Responds positively to change, regulatory updates, and new threats, continuously seeking improvement and embracing new technologies and processes.

Commitment to continuous improvement: Demonstrates a drive for professional development and process enhancement, staying current with FinOps, audit, risk, and control best practices.

Curiosity and learning agility: Eager to learn, adapt, and apply new knowledge in a rapidly changing environment.

Customer/business value focus: Aligns financial and technical decisions with the broader goals and value drivers of the organisation.

Discretion and confidentiality: Handles sensitive financial and risk information with care, respecting organisational and regulatory requirements.

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression and reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.