Associate Director Consumer Product Commercial Finance

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

Join us as an Associate Director Consumer Product Commercial Finance and help shape the future of our Optus Consumer Product portfolio! This is an outstanding chance to lead a vibrant team and collaborate with senior business partners to guarantee our products deliver both customer happiness and financial success.

What You’ll Do | Your day to day will consist of

• Establishing the strategic and financial plan for Optus Consumer Product, coordinating with main business areas and the Strategy team.
• Identifying key market opportunities, devising product strategies to capture these benefits.
• Translating strategic plans into financial plans (AOP) with business agreement.
• Ensuring financial performance is measured, understanding key drivers of variances.
• Forecasting financial performance accurately and identifying risks with mitigation plans.
• Evaluating all material pricing decisions with positive returns and appropriate sign-offs.
• Developing business cases for capital investments to guarantee a positive return on investment.
• Delivering ARPU and profit growth in line with targets.
• Proactively measuring profitability across key products, channels, and customer cohorts.
• Providing high-quality commercial support to all collaborators, ensuring clear and concise findings for decision-making.
• Managing costs related to the Optus Consumer Product portfolio and finding opportunities to reduce costs.
• Ensuring appropriate internal controls exist and implementing preventative controls where financial risks exist.
• Assuming responsibility and being accountable for important tasks, motivating and involving team members to reach goals.

What You Bring | What makes you perfect for the role?

• Demonstrated ability in developing strategic and financial plans for large-scale consumer products.
• Outstanding skills in financial forecasting and performance measurement with a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong ability to assess pricing decisions and business justification of capital investments.
• Demonstrated success in delivering balanced profit growth and measuring profitability.
• Excellent business partnering skills with the ability to represent the team at senior levels.
• A proactive approach to managing costs and finding opportunities for cost reduction.
• A detailed understanding of maintaining an adequate internal control environment.
• Leadership qualities that encourage and engage team members to embody Optus values.

The good stuff…. | What’s in it for you?

• Competitive remuneration and colleague discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and outstanding 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 colleague-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