Manager / Senior Manager – Cloud, Data & AI (CD&AI) - FinOps — PwC Switzerland
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- Full-time
- Posted
- 39 days ago
Full description
Grow here. Go further.
Zürich As per agreement 100% Advisory Everyone welcome ID: 705147WD
Your Impact
- You engage proactively with clients, performing in-depth analyses of their cloud technical and financial implementations and translating insights into robust, actionable recommendations for improvement.
- You lead the planning and execution of all relevant FinOps domains and capabilities, tailoring them to each client's business needs – from organisations just starting with FinOps to those running mature practices that require advanced enhancements.
- You identify and realise cost-saving opportunities at scale and design sound cost governance models that help clients control and continuously optimise their cloud spend and avoid unnecessary expenditures.
- You empower customers by recommending and implementing effective automation, tooling, and DevOps best practices that facilitate and accelerate their FinOps adoption at scale.
- You design and deliver comprehensive trainings and workshops to enable and educate stakeholders across IT, finance and the business on FinOps principles and ways of working.
- You lead FinOps engagements end-to-end with ownership of delivery quality, commercial outcomes, and client relationships, advocate FinOps internally and externally in the FinOps community, and continuously update your knowledge of cloud, engineering and consulting best practices to ensure high-quality delivery and a culture of continuous improvement.
- You build, coach, and mentor high-performing FinOps and cloud teams, and actively contribute to business development activities, including proposals, thought leadership, and growing the FinOps practice within PwC Switzerland and across the global network.
Your Skill Set
Your skill set
- A university degree in fields such as business informatics, computer science, physics, mathematics, or any engineering discipline is preferred.
- You have hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud, preferably Azure, and a deep understand of cloud architectures, services and DevOps concepts. Additional experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud is considered a plus.
- You bring at least 5 years of relevant professional experience, with a proven track record in FinOps, including cost optimisation, budgeting, reporting, and leading FinOps transformations.
- You hold an advanced cloud certification (e.g. Architect or Engineer) and a FinOps certification (FinOps Certified Practitioner required
- FinOps Certified Professional or FOCUS certification a strong plus), with concrete FinOps success stories.
- You have good communication skills to engage confidently with clients, understanding their challenges well, and providing the right recommendations needed. That may include designing and facilitating educational workshops and training in the domain of FinOps.
- Fluency in English and a willingness to travel within Switzerland and occasionally internationally
- German language skills are considered a plus.
Your Benefits
Hybrid Flexible Working Model
Our work model enables you to spend part of your time working in the office and part at home (provided this is your preference) – unless you’re at your clients’ premises, which is of course always the priority. This approach allows you to tailor your schedule to your personal working style.
Learn and Grow
Our learning and development approach helps you gain valuable skills and knowledge to advance your career, not just at PwC. We offer a variety of internal and external courses for training and upskilling. Identify your strengths and areas for improvement and gain new skills to achieve your professional goals. You’ll build confidence, enhance your job performance, and take your career to the next level.
Sustainable Performance
PwC is committed to creating an environment of sustainable performance. We therefore offer a range of resources such as sustainable performance workshops, self-leadership trainings, resilience and mindfulness sessions, nutrition webinars, and yoga courses.
Vacation and Leave
From maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to vacation and paid leave, we know it’s essential to take time away from work. At PwC, you can enjoy a variety of leave options to recharge, relax, or achieve personal milestones.
Volunteering
Are you passionate about doing good and making a difference? That’s great, because so are we at PwC. We encourage you to participate in volunteer work by offering paid time off for volunteering activities. Our Corporate Sustainability programmes help you find purpose and fulfilment while working with us.
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About PwC
Grow here. Go further. At PwC Switzerland, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're part of a tech-forward, people-empowered network and help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum across audit, assurance, tax, legal, workforce, deals and consulting. offices employees women nationalities average age million CHF gross revenue PwC Switzerland and Liechtenstein PwC Zurich: Birchstrasse 160, 8050 Zurich PwC Aarau: Bleichemattstrasse 43, 5000 Aarau PwC Basel: St. Jakobs-Strasse 25, 4052 Basel PwC Bern: Bahnhofplatz 10, 3001 Bern PwC Geneva: Avenue Giuseppe-Motta 50, 1202 Geneva PwC Lausanne: Avenue Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 45, 1009 Pully PwC Lugano: Piazza Indipendenza 1, 6900 Lugano PwC Lucerne: Robert-Zünd-Strasse 2, 6005 Lucerne PwC Neuchâtel: Rue des Epancheurs 6, 2000 Neuchâtel PwC St. Gallen: Kornhausstrasse 25, 9000 St. Gallen PwC Winterthur: Bahnhofplatz 8, 8400 Winterthur PwC Zug: Dammstrasse 21, 6300 Zug PwC Ruggell, Liechtenstein: Industriering 40, 9491 Ruggell
Questions about this listing
What salary does PwC Switzerland offer for this role?
The original listing does not state a salary. Our estimate for this role and sector in Zürich is CHF 113'000 - 180'000 gross per year — an estimate, not a figure communicated by PwC Switzerland. The calculator on this site converts a gross salary into your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does PwC Switzerland offer?
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