AD, Program Governance & Performance

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband and digital solutions.  

The PMO Governance and Performance Lead plays a critical role in strengthening governance, financial oversight, and performance reporting across a large‑scale Compliance Program. The role provides portfolio‑level oversight rather than delivery, ensuring fit‑for‑purpose governance frameworks, strong financial discipline, and clear, data‑driven insights to support executive decision‑making. Partnering closely with senior stakeholders, the role drives PMO maturity uplift, streamlines governance controls, and supports steering committees with high‑quality performance, risk, and financial reporting. 

Your day to day will consist of  

• Lead and maintain governance rhythms across the Compliance Program, including preparing for steering committees, managing governance calendars, and ensuring decisions, approvals, and actions are clearly documented and followed through. 

• Review and challenge project budgets, forecasts, and actuals, consolidating financial performance across the portfolio and identifying risks, variances, and emerging trends for timely escalation. 

• Partner with delivery leads, finance, and senior stakeholders to ensure projects are operating within approved funding, governance standards, and regulatory requirements. 

• Produce clear, fact‑based performance, financial, and risk insights that enable confident executive decision‑making and support assurance activities. 

• Coach and influence delivery teams on governance expectations, financial discipline, and PMO best practice, helping lift overall governance maturity across the program. 

What makes you perfect for the role?  

• Extensive experience leading PMO governance and performance across large, complex programs, with a strong track record of designing and embedding fit‑for‑purpose governance frameworks and controls. 

• Deep capability in program financial management, including budget setting, forecasting, cost tracking, variance analysis, and providing transparent, executive‑level financial insights. 

• Proven ability to produce high‑quality governance, performance, and risk reporting that supports confident decision‑making at senior leadership and steering committee level. 

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge, coach, and guide delivery teams and leaders on governance standards and financial discipline. 

• Solid background working within regulated or highly structured environments, with a clear understanding of compliance, assurance, audit expectations, and corporate finance policies. 

The good stuff….  

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners. 

• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home. 

• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym and on-site childcare centre. 

• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you. 

• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks. 

• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities. 

• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+). 

• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in-person, by phone, SMS, or video. 

• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon. 

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170.  

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity