Head of Governance Risk and FinOps

Dow Jones; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Publications access

Discounts across News Corp products

Onsite gym for Sydney offices

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Career break and compassionate leave

Financial wellbeing support

Job summary

News Corp Australia is seeking a Head of Governance, Risk and FinOps to drive strategic value and operational excellence across the Technology and Digital Data (TDD) department. You will partner with senior IT executives, finance, and delivery teams to establish robust control frameworks and data-driven cost insights.

You will lead governance forums, ensure policy compliance, track TDD-wide spend, and provide transparent reporting.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in IT governance, risk management, and policy frameworks.
• Commercial awareness of software licensing, vendor contracts, and managed services.
• Experience reporting to executives with strong stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Establish IT governance frameworks, policies, and decision rights with streamlined processes.
• Maintain end-to-end IT risk management including identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring, and executive escalation.
• Own the IT risk register and build risk ownership across technology leaders and teams.
• Support IT financial management and provide executive reporting on costs to highlight financial risks and efficiency opportunities.
• Define, track, and deliver key metrics, dashboards, and insights covering governance, risk, and financial performance.

Skills

IT governance

Risk management

Policy frameworks

Software licensing

Vendor contracts

Financial governance

Stakeholder management

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Tools

Governance frameworks

Job description

What's the role?

As the Head of Governance, Risk and FinOps, you will drive strategic value and operational excellence by leading fit-for-purpose IT governance and comprehensive risk management across the Technology and Digital Data (TDD) department. Partnering directly with senior IT executives, finance, and delivery teams, you will establish robust control frameworks, lead active governance forums, ensure policy compliance, and enhance risk visibility. Additionally, you will optimise departmental spend, equipping decision-makers with transparent, data-driven insights to effectively track, manage, and control TDD-wide costs. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on role with no direct reports. To be successful, you must be adept at navigating a complex matrix environment, using your influence and strong relationship-building skills to drive outcomes and get things done without relying on direct authority.

Responsibilities

Establish and run IT governance frameworks, forums, policies, and decision rights, continuously streamlining processes to ensure practical, outcome-focused controls without unnecessary bureaucracy. Develop, maintain, and oversee the end-to-end IT risk management framework, covering risk identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring, and timely executive escalation. Own the IT risk register to ensure material risks, issues, and control gaps are prioritised and managed, while building risk-ownership capability across technology leaders and teams. Support department-wide IT financial management and provide executive reporting on costs to highlight financial risks, efficiency opportunities, and TDD-wide spend. Define, track, and deliver key metrics, dashboards, and strategic insights covering governance, risk, and financial performance. Ensure the effective operation of governance structures, reliable executive reporting, and the implementation of proportionate, business enabling controls.

Who are you?

You are a proven leader with significant experience in IT governance, risk management, and policy frameworks, known for applying pragmatic, outcome-focused controls in fast-paced environments. You are commercially astute with deep knowledge of software licensing, vendor contracts, and managed services, supported by a strong background in large, complex IT environments. You are a strategic, data-driven, and collaborative professional with a relevant tertiary qualification, combining high integrity and risk awareness with a focus on practical business outcomes. You are adept at translating complex technical, financial, and risk data into clear, actionable executive insights, dashboards, and reporting. You are an exceptional communicator and influencer who builds strong stakeholder relationships and easily bridges the gap between technical and non-technical teams at all levels. You have experience in high level reporting on technology costs for an IT department and understand budgets, forecasts, and cost models.

Why News Corp Australia

Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.

Our benefits include

• Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
• Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money

Additional initiatives and programs

• Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career
• Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

Who are we?

News Corp Australia is the nation’s most influential media organisation, operating more than 150 household-name brands across print, digital and multimedia. We lead the way in travel, fashion, food, health, homes and lifestyle, and we are the largest publisher across print and digital, reaching more than 16 million Australians each month. What’s next?

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