Senior FinOps Analyst

UNAVAILABLE; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

At Atlassian, a Senior FinOps Analyst role focuses on cost efficiency across AWS and GCP, partnering with engineering teams to optimize usage and pricing. You will design dashboards, provide actionable insights, and mentor junior analysts while working with senior leaders to drive cost-aware decisions.

The role emphasizes education, collaboration, and applying AI tooling to accelerate analyses, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and strategic impact across Atlassian's cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a technical business analyst, data analyst or FinOps analyst.
• Demonstrated SQL or Python skills with complex data sources.
• Good understanding of cloud technology, consumption and billing.
• Experience turning data into recommendations for engineering or finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own cost and usage insights for teams and domains, identifying optimization opportunities and making evidence-backed recommendations.
• Collaborate with engineering to secure rate optimization commitments and discuss pricing with vendors.
• Lead cost efficiency discussions with engineering and finance teams.
• Support cost allocation and attribution and map spend to services and teams.
• Design data models, reports and dashboards to show costs and opportunities to multiple stakeholders.
• Set standards for querying data and build models that adapt to data changes.
• Use AI tooling to speed up analysis and improve cost insights.
• Validate cost savings including trade-offs.
• Plan and deliver training for engineers and improve team documentation.
• Work with a fast-growing FinOps team and share visibility with senior leaders.

Skills

SQL

Python

Cost optimization

Data storytelling

Cloud billing

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Databricks

BigQuery

Tableau

AWS

GCP

Job description

Overview

Your Future OrgTo be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers’ transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.Your Future TeamIn this role as a Senior FinOps Analyst, reporting into the Head of Engineering FinOps, you’ll be an important part of our cost efficiency strategy across Atlassian. As a member of our industry-leading FinOps team you’ll be using our cost data and your cloud engineering experience to build a culture of cost efficiency across our AWS and GCP environments.It’s your job to make sure our teams are educated and aware of their costs, understand the opportunities for efficiency and take direct action to improve the rate and usage of our cloud resources.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Own cost and usage insights for the teams and domains you partner with, identifying usage optimisation opportunities and making clear, evidence-backed recommendations that teams can adopt

• Work with engineering teams to find viable rate optimisation commitments, and contribute to conversations with cloud vendors on pricing and billing

• Lead cost efficiency discussions with engineering and finance teams

• Support cost allocation and attribution (tagging, showback and chargeback) so spend maps to services and teams, and connect it to product and customer outcomes through unit economics

• Design data models, reports and dashboards that give multiple stakeholders visibility of costs and opportunities

• Set standards for how we query our data, and build analytical models that keep working as the data changes

• Use AI tooling to speed up analysis and make our cost insights easier to act on

• Validate cost savings, including where there are complex considerations and trade-offs

• Plan and deliver training for engineers, improve our team documentation, and mentor more junior analysts

• Work as part of a fast-growing, multi-disciplinary, high impact FinOps team, with exposure and visibility across Atlassian engineering teams and senior leaders

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a technical business analyst, data analyst or FinOps analyst

• Demonstrated SQL or Python skills, including writing high quality queries across complex data sources

• A good understanding of cloud technology and how it is consumed and billed

• Experience turning data into recommendations for engineering or finance stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with GCP cost and usage data, such as billing exports, committed use discounts and reservations

• A background in FinOps, ideally at a SaaS or software company

• A background in business financial operations

• Technical or management experience with AWS

• Technical experience as a cloud engineer

• Familiarity with the cost of AI workloads

• Experience with tools such as Databricks, BigQuery and Tableau, and an interest in data visualisation practices

• Vendor management experience

• A FinOps Certified Practitioner or Google Cloud Professional certification

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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