{"id":1534710,"url":"https://alion.io/job/seek-rewards-finops-data-analyst","title":"FinOps Data Analyst","company":{"id":4078,"name":"Seek Rewards","domain":"seekrewards.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/seek","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":null},"role":"Analytics","role_family":"Analytics","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cremorne, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":81000,"max_usd":162000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":9},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon Redshift","optional":false},{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"Domo","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Looker","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Power BI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Tableau","optional":false},{"name":"Time Series Forecasting","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T03:36:21Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-10-02T04:34:20Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About SEEK\nAt SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed.\nBy joining us, you’ll be part of a multi-national technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility - it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.\nWhy join us?\nBe part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers while building a flexible, exciting career - one that could take you anywhere.\nWe’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.\nBe part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.\n The team\nThe Cloud Enablement team’s role is to provide a stable, secure and optimised cloud for all SEEKers, enabling engineering teams to use cloud technology by providing services and prescriptive guidance that promotes agile, autonomous delivery and supports business transformation. The team is split into FinOps and Engineering squads, with this role sitting within the FinOps squad.\nAbout the role\nAs a FinOps Data Analyst at SEEK, you will turn complex cloud, AI and SaaS cost data into intelligence that engineering teams, Finance and senior leaders can act on. This is a hands-on analytical role sitting at the intersection of data science, business intelligence and cloud financial management. You will own the datasets, the models, and the dashboards that make SEEK's technology spend visible, explainable and forecastable.\nResponsibilities\nCollect, process and model cloud, AI and SaaS cost and usage data - AWS Cost and Usage Reports, GCP BigQuery billing exports and vendor APIs - into trusted, query-ready datasets.\nBuild and maintain dashboards and visualisations in QuickSight that give engineering teams, Finance and senior leaders a single source of truth for cloud spending, cost trends, forecasts, optimisation opportunities and financial performance.\nApply statistical and machine learning techniques to cost anomaly detection, seasonality and trend analysis, with a focus on signal over noise across a multi-account, multi-cloud estate.\nModel unit economics - cost per customer, per placement, per API call, per inference - so teams can see efficiency and business value, not just raw spend.\nExtend FinOps reporting into AI and ML workloads, tracking token consumption, inference cost, GPU utilisation and API spend, while alerting on runaway usage.\nLeverage AI tooling and agentic workflows to automate insight generation and narrative reporting, with verification and human review built in.\nCollaborate with Engineering, Operations, Finance and other stakeholders to align cloud resource usage with business objectives and budgets, and to support cost-efficient decisions early in the development life-cycle.\n Essential skills and experience\nBachelor's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, information technology, finance, economics or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience.\nStrong SQL and data modelling skills, with hands-on experience querying large, granular billing datasets (e.g. Athena, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake).\nProven experience building BI dashboards and visualisations (e.g. QuickSight, Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Domo) for both engineering and executive audiences.\nProficiency in Python (or R) for data analysis, statistical modelling, recurring reporting automation and data collection scripting (e.g. Bash).\nHands-on experience with cloud cost management tools and data sources (e.g. AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, GCP Billing and BigQuery export, Azure Cost Management) and/or third-party FinOps platforms (e.g. Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth).\nPractical experience with forecasting, trend analysis and anomaly detection, with the judgement to know when a simple model beats a complex one.\nRigour about data quality - reconciliation across sources, documented definitions, and healthy scepticism about your own numbers.\nAWS, GCP or FinOps certifications.\nFamiliarity with agile methodologies and version-controlled analytics workflows (e.g. Git, dbt, CI for data pipelines).\nStrong analytical, communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify optimisation opportunities, and work effectively across cross-functional teams.\nOther skills and experience\nExperience applying FinOps to AI workloads and using AI to support FinOps.\nExperience managing AI/ML inference costs, API consumption, and token-based pricing across AI services; tracking cost per token, cost per inference and GPU utilisation; and experience with agentic AI solutions to provide automated insights at scale.\nExperience applying data science to operational or financial data - regression, time-series forecasting (e.g. ARIMA, Prophet), clustering, and outlier or changepoint detection.\nExperience building or maintaining data pipelines and transformation layers (e.g. dbt, Dataflow, Glue, Airflow, Composer).\nExperience modelling unit economics or cost-per-transaction in a product, platform or marketplace business.\n Perks and benefits\nAt SEEK we offer:\nSupport of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role\nAnnual Performance Bonus Plan\nThe opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year\nFrequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia\nCasual dress every day\nAt SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.\nWe know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us. Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.\nFor this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.\nSEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7236,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Australia","iso":"AU","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Sales & Marketing","Loyalty Programs"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T18:14:08Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/seek-rewards-finops-data-analyst","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/seek-rewards-finops-data-analyst.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T03:15:41Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2952,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2048,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}