At Dentons Business Services EMEA, we are committed to excellence in supporting legal professionals with cutting-edge solutions. Our dynamic and diverse team collaborates seamlessly to provide a wide range of services, including finance, IT, human resources, marketing, and more. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.
Dentons Business Services EMEA serves as the operational backbone of Dentons, supporting the world’s largest law firm in delivering exceptional service to clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
As a crucial component of Dentons' global network, our UKIME business services team plays a key role in driving efficiency, innovation, and collaboration.
Requirements
Overview
To our UKIME team in Warsaw, we are seeking an experienced Azure FinOps professional to lead and evolve the financial governance and optimisation of our cloud and infrastructure estate within a regulated legal environment. This role will define and mature the firm’s FinOps capability, driving greater cost transparency, commercial efficiency, and accountability for technology spend, while ensuring alignment with firm-wide strategic priorities.
As a key bridge between IT, Finance, and Procurement, the role combines FinOps leadership, IT financial management, and vendor commercial oversight into a single accountable function. The successful candidate will shape how cost is managed, allocated, and optimised across a complex hybrid estate, embedding cost-awareness into technology decision-making and influencing investment choices at senior leadership level.
Working closely with IT leadership, Finance, and Procurement, this individual will take ownership of Azure consumption, broader infrastructure costs, and licensing and contract management, ensuring that financial insights are translated into clear, actionable decisions. Strong financial analysis capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, including partners, will be essential to success in this role.
Why This Role Matters
As the firm continues to evolve its technology landscape and deepen its adoption of Azure, effective financial governance and cost optimisation are essential to ensuring that technological investment delivers sustainable value. This role is central to bringing greater structure, transparency, and commercial discipline to how cloud and infrastructure spend is managed across the firm.
Operating at the intersection of IT, Finance, and Procurement, this role will shape how technology costs are understood, allocated, and optimised within a complex hybrid environment. It will play a key role in embedding FinOps practices, improving cost accountability across practice groups and business services, and enabling more informed, data-driven decision-making at senior levels.
In a regulated, partnership-driven environment, the role also ensures that technology spend is managed with appropriate governance, control, and auditability, supporting both operational efficiency and compliance requirements while aligning investment with the firm’s strategic priorities.
Role Focus
Primary Focus (Core Responsibilities)
Azure FinOps & Cost Optimisation
Financial Management & Visibility
FinOps Capability Development
Secondary Focus (Support & Collaboration)
Vendor & Commercial Support
Hybrid & Infrastructure Awareness
Governance & Stakeholder Engagement
What We’re Looking For
Nice to Have (Not Essential)
Success Measures
Why This Role
This is a hands-on role with real impact, focused on building and improving how cloud costs are managed in Azure.
You will have the opportunity to:
Benefits