Senior Analyst, Asset Management & New Markets

Your Impact

As the Senior Analyst, Asset Management & New Markets, based in our HQ in Sydney, you will report to the Senior Director, Asset Business Management and work closely with leadership and teams across Operations, Asset Business Management, Finance, Corporate Development, Design, Tech Ops, Procurement, Contract Management, Asset Information and Project Implementation across APJ and KSA. 

You will lead the development of the operational cost management capability, including strategic cost leadership across new deals, operating models, capital works, asset lifecycle decisions and portfolio optimisation. You will establish high-level processes, review outputs and guide the supporting Property Analyst/Cost Manager responsible for detailed business-case support and capital-works cost estimation. 

The role combines commercial analysis, operational understanding and stakeholder leadership to ensure that AirTrunk has robust cost information for investment decisions, approved budgets, project delivery and ongoing asset performance.

This is a 12 month maternity leave fixed term contract.

What You'll Do

• Strategic cost leadership: Lead the Property cost management framework, standards, governance and high-level review processes across business cases, capital works and operational cost analysis. 

• Business-case pipeline: Own and lead the end-to-end pipeline for new-site, expansion and customer business cases, including scope review, operating-model assessment, OPEX/CAPEX estimation, financial modelling, benchmarking, risks, assumptions and executive-ready recommendations. 

• Operating models: Build and support new operating models for GW large sites and customer expansions, including COSH, Full Cloud, Dark Site and other service models across Australia, Japan, India and KSA. 

• Strategic infrastructure analysis: Lead CIB, AI-related infrastructure and other emerging-model analysis, assessing alternative operating, technical and service solutions and their cost, capacity, risk and commercial implications. 

• New-market integration: Support market entry and integration activities through financial and business-case reviews, cost research, operating-model analysis and recommendations new regions.  

• TCO frameworks: Work with Procurement and Tech Ops to develop and apply Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) frameworks across the asset lifecycle, from design and procurement through operations, maintenance, refurbishment and replacement. 

• Cost optimisation: Identify and assess cost-optimisation opportunities and their operational impacts, including maintenance strategies, condition-based maintenance, sourcing options, service scopes, resource models and lifecycle decisions. 

• Capital-works cost management: Lead and support to build the framework for capital-project cost management, including scope-based cost blocks, estimating standards, vendor pricing, benchmarks, budget planning, change control and cost tracking through implementation. 

• Team leadership and review: Provide functional leadership, coaching and quality review for the Property Analyst/Cost Manager, who will support detailed business cases and estimate, benchmark and track capital-works costs across current and future programs. 

• Stakeholder engagement: Coordinate cross-functional inputs and challenge assumptions constructively to ensure that cost estimates reflect design, technical, operational, security, energy, contractual and customer requirements. 

• Portfolio performance: Lead analysis of financial and operating performance, property cost trends, asset lifecycle requirements and opportunities to improve portfolio returns, margins and cost transparency. 

• Reporting and decision support: Prepare clear analysis, dashboards, reports and presentations for Finance, Corporate Development, Operations, Asset Business Managmenet leadership and executive stakeholders.