FinOps Lead: Cloud Cost Strategy & Governance Champion

FinOps Weekly; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 148,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

17% superannuation

Flexible work-from-home arrangements

Salary packaging

Health and wellbeing services

Discounts for retail

Job summary

Curtin University is seeking a FinOps leader to drive cloud financial management within its Digital, Technology & Solutions, Platforms team. The role focuses on reducing cloud costs, improving governance, and embedding financial discipline across cloud investments.

Based in Curtin University, you will lead a FinOps function, build cross‑unit capabilities, and shape the university’s cloud maturity while promoting cost transparency and accountability across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, or cloud cost optimisation in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and cost optimisation skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication to influence diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the FinOps team and build capability across the university.
• Develop strategies to reduce cloud cost and improve value from cloud investments.
• Provide visibility into cloud spend across compute, storage, apps, and services.
• Design cost allocation models, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback frameworks.
• Analyse spend trends and identify optimisation opportunities for executives.
• Collaborate with technology and business leaders to promote efficient cloud use and responsible finance practices.
• Drive education, engagement and continuous improvement in cloud financial literacy, reporting, tools and monitoring.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost optimisation

Financial acumen

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Curtin University is seeking a FinOps leader to drive cloud financial management within its Digital, Technology & Solutions, Platforms team. The role focuses on reducing cloud costs, improving governance, and embedding financial discipline across cloud investments.

Based in Curtin University, you will lead a FinOps function, build cross‑unit capabilities, and shape the university’s cloud maturity while promoting cost transparency and accountability across stakeholders.