FinOps Lead: Cloud Cost & Governance (Remote-Eligible)

Curtin Business School MBA; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 153,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave entitlements

17% superannuation

Flexible work-from-home arrangements

Salary packaging and wellbeing options

Job summary

Curtin University seeks a commercially minded FinOps leader to shape cloud financial management and governance. You will influence digital strategy with strong financial judgement and lead a team to optimise cloud costs across platforms.

You will partner with technology and business stakeholders to drive value, transparency, and accountability in cloud investments while maturing FinOps capabilities university-wide.

Qualifications

• Experience in FinOps, cloud cost optimisation in a complex enterprise.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting capabilities.
• Knowledge of AWS and/or Microsoft Azure billing and optimisation principles.
• Experience implementing FinOps practices and cost governance frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a FinOps team to deliver cloud financial management outcomes.
• Develop strategies to optimise cloud costs and maximise cloud investment value.
• Provide clear visibility into cloud spend across compute, storage, apps, services.
• Develop cost allocation models, tagging standards, chargeback/showback frameworks.
• Use data insights to analyse spend trends and recommend optimisations to executives.
• Collaborate with tech and business stakeholders to promote efficient cloud use.
• Drive education and continuous improvement of FinOps practices and tools.

Skills

FinOps leadership

Cloud financial management

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial reporting

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Job description

Curtin University seeks a commercially minded FinOps leader to shape cloud financial management and governance. You will influence digital strategy with strong financial judgement and lead a team to optimise cloud costs across platforms.

You will partner with technology and business stakeholders to drive value, transparency, and accountability in cloud investments while maturing FinOps capabilities university-wide.