Ict Commercial Lead

3 days ago


Ipswich, Australia Ipswich City Council Full time

**About us**

Ipswich is a dynamic blend of rich heritage, proud communities, diverse landscapes, and a lively energy all contributing to a region full of liveability and opportunity. It is the state’s fastest growing city and oldest provincial city.

Ipswich City Council contributes to our vibrant and growing region with teams operating across various industries delivering services to the community and creating our vision:
**_‘Ipswich, a city of opportunity for all. Join us.'_**

We have a workplace culture built on our values of communication, collaboration, integrity, efficiency, and leadership. Come and join us in shaping the future of the city and its people.

**About the role**

The ICT Commercial Lead is responsible for driving high quality budget and financial management, investment planning, scenario modelling and relational procurement engagement.

You will be a key member of the ICT Business Management team with an overall responsibility to drive maximum value and return on investment from Council’s key consumptive technology contracts, including but not limited to Telecommunications and Cloud computing.

Your focus will be on:

- Being a proactive stakeholder in the commercial modelling of ongoing expenditure and new investments for ICT and ensure these activities are undertaken with appropriate governance, controls, and probity
- Coordinating the financial and budget management policies, practices, and reporting with a high degree of efficacy and accuracy
- Establishing and maintaining mechanisms for observability and transparency of Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) and Telecommunications expenditure, conducting root cause analysis and leading remediation of cost anomalies; coordinate financial, technical and procurement resources for ongoing optimisation of services provided on those platforms
- Proactively identify and manage investment opportunities, cost savings and early benefit realisation across the ICT portfolio enabling Council to maximise growth and achievement of goals and objectives and follow through to ensure they are realised
- Ensure Council maximises value and extracts optimum benefit to ensure strategic sourcing, procurement practices and vendor and contract development and management for consumptive contracts
- Manage the ICT Commercial team (2 direct reports), providing effective leadership, direction and professional development opportunities

View the position description for more details about the role.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will be a problem solver with excellent customer services skills along with:

- Possession of graduate or post-graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or extensive experience to carry out the range of duties required
- Ability to align ICT strategy with organisational business goals and objectives
- Proven skills in engaging and influencing senior stakeholders across both business and ICT
- Demonstrated exceptional verbal and written communication skills, particularly in translating complex technical topics
- Analytical thinking
- Extensive knowledge of integrated computerised financial systems relating to finance management operations
- High level of accounting skills in relation to budget development, management, and reporting
- Previous experience in FINOPS would be highly regarded
- An excellent fit with our values of communication, collaboration, integrity, efficiency and leadership

**About the benefits**

This is a fulltime permanent position, Level 8 with a salary range between $121,294 and $136,864 plus superannuation of up to 12.5%.
- Become a key member of a team that is passionate and dedicated to building a positive, inclusive, and constructive workplace culture
- Supportive culture that promotes a healthy work/life balance
- Ongoing learning, development and career opportunities
- Employee health and wellbeing programs
- Four (4) weeks annual leave with 17.5% loading, cultural leave and other leave options
- A variety of salary packaging options that includes, financial advice, income protection insurance, professional membership, novated leases and more

**Join us**

If you share our values and are passionate about enhancing the quality of life for the Ipswich community, then this could be the role for you.
- a cover letter of no more than 2 pages describing how your skills and experience will assist in meeting the requirements of this role
- a resume of no more than 4 pages including current licences/tickets/qualifications/certificates/visa that you hold

Closing date: 25 March 2024

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment screening which may include a criminal history check.

Ipswich City Council is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace by supporting equal opportunities regardless of gender, culture, generation, sexual orientation, or disability. We promote a


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