Suky Singh
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Beaconsfield, United Kingdom
Toptal member since August 7, 2026
Across global financial services and energy, Suky is a senior executive leader with over 33 years shaping cloud strategy, AI cost governance, and FinOps. Suky delivered $315+ million in cloud savings at HSBC by building enterprise-wide FinOps capabilities and embedding AI cost-governance frameworks. Suky brings deep expertise in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for large-scale transformation.
Career Highlights
Certification Highlights
Software Expertise
- Apptio
Other Expertise
- AI Strategy
- Azure
- Cloud
- FinOps
- FinOps Leader
- Google Workspace
- Outsourcing
Work Experience
Global FinOps and AI Cost Strategy Lead
HSBC
- Set up a FinOps CoE and delivered $315+ million in cloud savings through commitment strategy, rightsizing, utilization improvement, and waste elimination across the global estate. Reported directly to senior leadership and governance forums.
- Pioneered financial visibility into GPU consumption, model training, inference workloads, and model lifecycle management for AI workload cost governance, introducing governance frameworks now embedded across AI delivery teams.
- Founded and led HSBC's enterprise FinOps Center of Excellence as the central function for optimization strategy, tooling, standards, and capability development across global platforms.
- Built automated cost monitoring and anomaly detection agents to enable proactive, real-time financial management of the cloud estate.
- Conceived and delivered the global Cloud Hackathon: FinOps Edition, engaging over 2,000 engineers (CSAT 4.85/5) and Cloud Talks program reaching over 2,500 employees across all major platforms.
- Actively involved in renegotiation of Hyperscaler enterprise contracts and facilitated executive-level FinOps working groups with AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud account teams.
- Led successful managed services transition from a 3rd-party supplier back to HSBC, securing operational continuity and commercial savings.
Senior Outsourcing Advisor, Lead Program Manager
Deloitte Consulting
- Delivered over 50% cost reduction through cloud migration, server and storage rationalization, application consolidation, and software license optimization.
- Delivered full TBM Apptio implementation including Cost Transparency, IT Planning, Benchmarking, and Cloud Management with ATUM model, cost pool-to-business unit mappings, and executive dashboards.
- Managed a complex RFI-RFP-BAFO tender process and senior stakeholder reporting for £250 million infrastructure and £110 million ADM outsourcing deals.
Senior Commercial Lead, Complex Deals
T Systems International
- Named a key contributor to a top-performing European bid team delivering over £5 billion in major infrastructure and cloud contract wins across the lifetime of the role.
- Owned pricing strategy, competitor analysis, price-to-win modelling, contract terms and board sign-off presentations for every major submission.
- Developed custom Azure and cloud digitalization propositions for enterprise clients, including application migration strategies.
Senior Global IT Commercial Lead
BP International
- Achieved 30-50% total cost of ownership savings across transformational outsourcing initiatives through rigorous tender management and commercial negotiation.
- Engaged as trusted advisor across service catalogue design, SLA frameworks, incident and problem management and internal chargeback processes.
- Led several transformational infrastructure initiatives as part of the transition and transformation within BP that implemented contracts following signature and then transitioned the current IT services.
Senior Global Commercial Lead, Infrastructure and ADM
ABN AMRO
- Oversaw €10+ billion in contract scope spanning Global IT Infrastructure and ADM (€4.9 billion), Investment Bank IT (€4.3 billion), European bank integration (€1.0 billion), and Investment Bank ADM (€0.7 billion).
- Delivered 40-60% total cost of ownership savings through competitive tender, supplier rationalization, and governance model redesign.
- Designed and implemented enterprise-wide supplier performance reporting, KPI dashboards, and MI packs used by C-suite stakeholders throughout the outsourcing lifecycle.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance
University of London - London, UK
Certifications
Anthropic AI Certifications (Multiple)
Anthropic
FinOps Certified Professional for AI
FinOps Foundation
FinOps Certified Practitioner
FinOps Foundation
Skills
Finance
Pricing, Pricing Strategy, Deal Advisory, CFO, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Corporate Finance, Market Research, Accounting
Output Software
Apptio, SharePoint, Jira
Industry Expertise
Banking & Finance, Financial Services
Data & Analysis Software
Tableau, SQL, Looker
Other
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Azure, Google Cloud, FinOps, TBM, Cloud, Microsoft Office, AI Strategy, FinOps Leader, Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing, Sourcing & Procurement, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Commercial Strategy, Commercial Proposals, Project Management, Management Consulting, IT Infrastructure, Stakeholder Management, Optimization, RFP Negotiation, Price Negotiations, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Vendor Management, Vendor Selection, Finance, Business Cases, Business Evaluation, Data Transformation, Technology Transformation, Digital Transformation, Finance Transformation, Business Transformation, RFP Pricing, RFPs, RFQs, ITTs, Responses, Proposals & Quotes, Infrastructure, Data Center Infrastructure, Enterprise Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Product Pricing, Target Pricing, tco, CFO Advisory, ADAM, Responsible AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Executive Consulting, AI Ethics, AI Governance, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategy Planning, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, IT Services, Information Technology, Google Workspace, Confluence, Monday.com, OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, ServiceNow, SAP, Hyperion Essbase, Growth Strategy, Go-to-market (GTM) Strategy, AIM, Corporate, Supply Chain
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