## About the Role

TechnologyOne is seeking a mid-to-senior FinOps professional to support cloud cost optimisation, financial insight, and FinOps enablement across its SaaS and cloud environments.

This role exists to improve visibility, control, and understanding of cloud spend as the business scales. You will help teams turn usage and billing data into practical actions, strengthen commitment management, and support budgeting and forecasting processes.

You will work closely with engineering, product, finance, and external vendors. The role also includes building FinOps capability across the organisation and helping validate savings after recommendations are implemented.

## Key Responsibilities

– Analyse usage and billing data across AWS, Azure, and Databricks to identify optimisation opportunities.
– Maintain an optimisation backlog and track recommendations through to completion.
– Manage Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, including renewal planning and stakeholder engagement ahead of expiry windows.
– Monitor AI/LLM workloads and provide cost optimisation insights.
– Deliver reporting and insights for stakeholders, including dashboards and self-service analytics.
– Track actuals against budgets, explain variances, and support phased forecasts and annual planning commentary.
– Refine cost allocation methods and validate cloud credits.
– Develop unit economics metrics to improve SaaS margin visibility.
– Take ownership of recommendations from opportunity identification through to savings validation.
– Partner with engineering, product, finance, and external vendors to deliver cost-saving initiatives and optimise cloud contracts.
– Build FinOps literacy through mentoring, lunch-and-learns, and wider community participation.
– Stay current with FinOps developments, the FOCUS specification, and emerging AI cost management practices.
– Maintain compliance with data governance, security, and confidentiality requirements.

## Required Skills

– Based in Brisbane and able to work a hybrid model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
– Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
– 2–5 years of experience in cloud FinOps, cloud cost management, data analytics, or a related cloud/software engineering discipline.
– Proficiency with cloud cost management platforms such as AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, and Databricks cost APIs.
– Strong SQL and analytical skills.
– Working knowledge of the FinOps Foundation framework and the Inform-Optimise-Operate lifecycle.
– Solid understanding of cloud pricing models, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, spot/preemptible compute, and EDP/MACC commercial arrangements.
– Ability to translate complex cost data into clear, audience-appropriate insights.
– Ability to drive outcomes collaboratively across engineering, finance, and product teams without direct authority.

## Preferred Skills

– Experience with AI/LLM cost management.
– Experience with BI or visualisation tools.
– FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or FinOps Certified Professional (FCP).
– Familiarity with the FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification) standard.
– Experience with data engineering or pipeline tooling such as Databricks, dbt, or Spark SQL.
– Participation in FinOps community activities or industry working groups.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Azure

### Cost Management Platforms
– AWS Cost Explorer
– Azure Cost Management
– Databricks cost APIs

### Data & Analytics
– Databricks
– dbt
– Spark SQL

### Reporting & BI
– BI tools
– Visualisation tools
– Cost dashboards
– Self-service analytics

### Languages
– SQL

### Frameworks & Standards
– FinOps Foundation framework
– Inform-Optimise-Operate lifecycle
– FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification)

### Cloud Pricing & Commercial Models
– Reserved Instances
– Savings Plans
– Spot/preemptible compute
– EDP/MACC commercial arrangements

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Identify and track cloud optimisation opportunities across usage and billing data.
– Manage commitments, including Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, with renewal planning.
– Support budgets, phased forecasts, actuals tracking, and variance commentary.
– Improve cost allocation, validate cloud credits, and develop unit economics.
– Increase cloud spend visibility through reporting, dashboards, and self-service analytics.
– Support AI/LLM workload cost management.
– Build FinOps capability across teams and contribute to community practice.
– Validate realised savings and maintain governance, security, and confidentiality.

## Benefits

– Competitive remuneration package
– Employee share plan
– Salary packaging options
– Up to 10 days of additional leave through the Purchase Leave program
– Flexible hours with a family-friendly approach
– 2.5 additional days of leave per year for volunteering with a charity of your choice
– Free breakfast and coffee on site
– Free gym membership locally, or access to an onsite 24/7 gym at HQ
– Full access to LinkedIn Learning
– Clear career framework supporting career progression

## Why You Might Be Interested

This opportunity offers hands-on ownership of FinOps outcomes in a growing SaaS environment. It combines cloud cost analysis, forecasting, commitment management, and savings validation with the chance to influence how teams understand and manage spend. You will also have scope to build FinOps maturity across the business while working with AWS, Azure, Databricks, and emerging AI cost management practices.