Synechron is looking for an experienced Cost & Capacity Manager to join one of their leading financial services clients in a long term contract.

Role:

• Build an Excel supply plan per platform (IKP and PCF) summarising rolling capacity demand inputs by class of service, capacity guard rails by class of service, rolling capacity supply plans by class of service and forward gaps, impacts:
  - maintain an action plan to resolve gaps and mitigate impacts,
  - define/document process and data inputs to maintain and automate where possible (eg feeds from Splunk), ensuring that 2 others (to be nominated) can maintain
  
  
• Build an Excel multi-year cost book per platform (IKP and PCF) with a sub-book per cost/contract, summarised to calculate total annual costs (numerators), and sub-book per platform for allocated/forecasted volumes (see above), summarised to calculate annual volumes (denominator):
  - calculate platform recharge rates, reconcile actuals to the modelled costs, report the rate breakdown
  - maintain an action plan to improve costs/rates
  - define/document process and data inputs to maintain and automate where possible (eg, feeds from Splunk), ensuring that 2 others (to be nominated) can maintain

• Ensure that all investment options (initiatives) have justified costs and benefits, define/document process to maintain, ensuring that 2 others (to be nominated) can maintain

• Produce output for the benefit of stakeholders (business consumers, Build Project Manager, management, procurement, cost management) to meet their needs

• Define/document methodology for valuing risks and problems

Job Requirements:

• Strong Excel knowledge, ability to build multi-tab/workbook models, fed by external data sources, including Splunk

• Experience of creating cost models to determine total cost of ownership and recharge rates.

• Experience of designing processes to manage the flow of data from other sources (typically csv, Excel, Splunk) to transform data from demand forecasts into supply plans and reports required by others to explain regional and per class of service cost breakdowns.

• Ideally able to design/develop Splunk dashboards

• Excellent written and spoken English, comfortable explaining financial concepts, cost allocations/distributions, and ratios

Immediate Start Available - Strong Market Rates - Hybrid working

About Us
Synechron began in 2001 as a small, self-funded team and we have continued building from the ground up, watching our organisation grow to over 14,500+ people spread across 43 offices in 18 countries within key global markets.
From our solid financial services industry foundation, Synechron have become a prominent global digital consulting firm for large financial services and technology firms. With a key focus on trust and in partnership with our clients, we're leading modernisation and digital optimisation journeys with expertise that spans Consulting, Data, Digital, Cloud & Dev Ops and Engineering.

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