University of New South Wales – Kensington NSW

Employment Type: full time continuing role as a Cloud Financial Operations ( FinOps) Manager, UNSW IT

Attractive salary package available

Location: Kensington campus in NSW (Hybrid Adaptable Working) 2-3 days in the office

About UNSW:

UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. We’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 50 universities in the world and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

The Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Manager will play a critical role managing and optimising UNSW's Cloud budgeting, consumption, and overall financial sustainability.

This senior role ensures cost optimisation and drives a proactive cost management culture for all cloud services, maximising value from cloud investments. This position offers a unique opportunity to build and shape the FinOps function at UNSW. The Cloud FinOps Manager will collaborate with leaders across UNSW IT, finance and technology teams to ensure the efficient utilisation and management of UNSW’s Hybrid Cloud environments. By setting standards, guidelines, procedures and advisory services to manage and monitor cloud spend, this role enables seamless business operations and customer satisfaction. This position is ideal for someone with a financial and accounting mindset coupled with a strong technical interest. The role reports to the Head of Technology Delivery.





Specific accountabilities for this role include:

- Strategic Leadership: Provide visionary leadership and strategic direction in cloud financial operations, ensuring alignment of FinOps initiatives with UNSW's overarching IT strategy and spearheading efforts to achieve substantial financial spend reductions across all environments.
- Monitor Cloud Spending: Continuously oversee and analyse cloud spending and resource utilisation, leading efforts to identify trends and inefficiencies. Drive optimisation opportunities by ensuring precise data analysis and maintaining high levels of accuracy and timeliness.
- Cost Optimisation: Develop and implement strategies to ensure the efficient use of cloud services by creating metrics and actionable measures. Lead initiatives such as rightsizing resources, leveraging reserved instances, and eliminating waste, actively ensuring optimisation practices are adopted across all UNSW teams.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Take responsibility for engaging with senior executives and work closely with in-house developers, faculties, research departments, and application owners to communicate and drive the implementation of cost management best practices.
- Cost Monitoring Tools: Responsible for leading cross-team collaboration to implement and enhance cost monitoring tools, ensuring clear visibility into cloud spending and driving financial accountability.




- Reporting: Develop, maintain and continuously improve automated financial performance reporting and Power BI dashboards, including cloud cost visibility, forecasting, variance analysis and optimisation tracking. Ensure reporting is accurate, timely, scalable and supported by reliable data models and repeatable processes, delivering actionable financial and strategic advice.
- Documentation and Training: Maintain comprehensive documentation of processes and provide training to promote cross-functional collaboration and skill development.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with industry trends and best practices, proactively identifying and leading cost optimisation improvements.
- Vendor Management: Manage vendor relationships and negotiate multi-million dollar contracts to ensure the best terms and conditions for our cloud services.
- Developer Experience: Ensure that cost efficiency is considered as part of the end-to-end developer journey. Regularly gathering feedback from development teams to identify and address pain points and measure the impact of improvements.
- Strategic Advice: Provide strategic advice and guidance to the business to promote cost optimisation strategies and effectiveness, promoting continuous improvement initiatives relating to cloud spend.
- Compliance and Governance: Ensure compliance with UNSW’s financial policies and procedures, including cloud cost visibility (allocation, tagging) to allow showback/chargeback mechanisms, cost actuals management, and developing quarterly forecasts.
- Align with and actively demonstrate the Code of Conduct and Values
- Ensure hazards and risks psychosocial and physical are identi

📌 Cloud FinOps Manager (Sydney)
🏢 University Of New South Wales
📍 Sydney