Group Head of FP&A, Technology and Transformation

Qantas; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Air travel discounts

Flexible leave options

Wellbeing programs

Salary packaging options

Job summary

Qantas is seeking a Group Head of FP&A, Technology and Transformation based in Mascot, Sydney, to shape financial performance and oversee technology and transformation investments. You will partner with senior executives, lead a finance team and drive enterprise investment prioritisation to deliver long-term value.

You will set the finance agenda across technology, AI and major programs, provide clear commercial advice to the Group Leadership Team and mentor leaders through significant change,

Qualifications

• Significant senior finance leadership experience in large/listed organisations.
• Experience influencing senior executives on complex commercial and investment decisions.
• Strong understanding of technology-enabled transformation and AI finance.
• Proven ability to lead large teams through change.
• Exceptional analytical ability and commercial judgment.
• Strong stakeholder management at C-suite level.

Responsibilities

• Lead key components of Group performance and investment prioritisation.
• Provide financial leadership across Technology and Transformation costs.
• Act as AI Finance Lead with investment governance across AI initiatives.
• Shape recommendations for the Group Leadership Team on performance and value creation.
• Develop and inspire a high-performing finance team through change.

Skills

Senior finance leadership

Business partner with senior execs

Technology/digital finance

Team leadership

Commercial judgement

Stakeholder management

Financial governance & control

Education

CA/CPA or equivalent postgraduate qualification

Job description

• Lead at Group level – Shape financial performance of the Group with significant exposure to senior executives.
• Be at the forefront of AI and transformation – Lead the finance agenda across technology, AI and major transformation programs, helping shape how Qantas invests and delivers long-term value.
• Full time permanent role based in Mascot Sydney.

The Group Head of FP&A, Technology and Transformation is a significant senior finance leadership opportunity within Qantas Group, bringing together Financial Performance, Technology, Transformation and enterprise investment prioritisation. With visibility across some of the Group’s most strategically important initiatives, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Qantas.

Reporting to the Qantas Group Executive Manager Finance, with a dotted reporting line to the Chief Technology, AI and Transformation Officer, you’ll lead a team of Finance professionals and partner extensively with senior executives, Segment CTOs/CFOs and leaders across the Group.

What you’ll do

In this broad and highly influential role, you will:

• Lead key components of Qantas Group’s performance agenda.
• Lead the prioritisation of Group investment across operating expenditure and non-Fleet capital expenditure, balancing strategic priorities, financial constraints and long-term value creation.
• Provide financial leadership across Technology and Marketing costs, partnering closely with senior Technology, AI, Marketing and business leaders.
• Act as the Group AI Finance Lead, providing financial oversight, investment governance and strategic leadership across the Group’s AI agenda.
• Lead the finance agenda across major technology and transformation programs including Modern Retailing, IQ and the Adelaide Innovation Centre, ensuring investment is translated into measurable business and financial outcomes.
• Shape recommendations for senior executive and Board forums, bringing together competing priorities and providing clear, commercially grounded advice on performance, investment and transformation to the Group Leadership Team.
• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing finance team, building capability and creating an environment that embraces innovation, transformation and continuous improvement.

You’ll have

We’re looking for an accomplished and commercially minded finance leader who can operate comfortably across strategy, financial performance, transformation and executive stakeholder management.

• Significant senior finance leadership experience within a large, complex or listed organisation, with broad expertise spanning FP&A, business partnering and transformation.
• Experience operating at business unit CFO or senior finance business partner level and influencing senior executives on complex commercial and investment decisions.
• Strong technology or digital finance experience, with a practical understanding of AI, data and technology-enabled transformation.
• Demonstrated experience leading large teams, including managing senior leaders and people managers through significant change.
• Exceptional commercial judgement, analytical capability and the ability to navigate competing priorities and complex investment decisions.
• Highly developed stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the credibility to engage effectively at C-suite and senior executive level.
• Strong financial governance, risk and control capability, combined with an ability to translate complex financial information into clear and compelling recommendations.
• A relevant tertiary qualification, with CA/CPA or equivalent postgraduate qualifications. An MBA would be highly regarded.

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Applications close: Sunday 15 November 2026

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.