Strategic Finance Lead, Infrastructure

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Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. This is a remote position and to ensure successful collaboration for our teams,

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. This is a remote position and to ensure successful collaboration for our teams, you will preferably be located in PST timezone.

Responsibilities

About the Role

Our FP&A team exists to set long and short term growth targets, while helping the business make financially strategic decisions that support these plans. We are seeking a highly analytical and business-savvy Strategic Finance, Infrastructure Lead to join our finance team with a dedicated focus on cloud spend and infrastructure investment strategy. This individual will play a critical role in shaping the company's long-term cloud and infrastructure roadmap by providing deep financial insight, rigorous modeling, and strategic partnership with cross-functional teams including engineering, product, and business operations. This role is ideal for someone with strong financial acumen, experience in cloud cost structures (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), and a passion for leveraging data to drive meaningful business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive financial modeling to evaluate cloud infrastructure costs, pricing scenarios, and ROI of investments, providing actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Lead strategic financial analysis for long-term cloud capacity planning and infrastructure initiatives, balancing growth, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business operations teams to inform and influence the company's cloud and infrastructure strategy through financial insights.
• Support long-term strategic planning, including build vs. buy analysis, and vendor negotiations
• Influence product-level decisions by analyzing margins and unit economics tied to cloud consumption and cost allocation.
• Contribute to board materials, investor reporting, and leadership presentations related to infrastructure strategy and costs
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, corporate development, or investment banking; experience in a tech/cloud-centric environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost structures (AWS, Azure, GCP), pricing models, and infrastructure planning.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with financial planning tools (e.g., Anaplan, Adaptive, Tableau) is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to turn complex data into clear insights that drive strategic decisions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a proactive and problem-solving mindset.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, or related field; MBA or similar advanced degree is a plus.
  
  

Qualifications

Compensation

Skills

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $164,700 - $215,025

Zone B: $148,500 - $193,875

Zone C: $136,800 - $178,600

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

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 .

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.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit .Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionFinance and Sales
• IndustriesSoftware Development

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