PMO Analyst

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

We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented PMO Analyst to support the governance, coordination, and financial oversight of a diverse enterprise portfolio of programs and projects. Reporting to the Associate Director, this role plays a critical part in ensuring initiatives are delivered within established governance frameworks, financial controls, and delivery standards.

As a trusted partner to senior leadership, you will provide data-driven insights to support decision-making, while driving portfolio financial management, capacity planning, and Jira Align data quality. You will also contribute to the development and execution of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), ensuring alignment between strategic priorities and delivery outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working at the intersection of governance, finance, and delivery.

What You’ll Do 

• Support portfolio governance by ensuring projects follow established frameworks, acting as a quality gatekeeper for artefacts, and managing stage progression, approvals, and closures.
• Manage portfolio and project financials, supporting a wide variety of stakeholders with monthly journals, forecasting, variance analysis, and ensuring alignment with budget, funding, and capitalisation requirements.
• Deliver accurate, timely reporting and insights across delivery status, financial performance, risks, and benefits, preparing executive-ready dashboards and papers.
• Own Jira Align data quality, conducting regular audits, maintaining portfolio integrity, and driving continuous improvement in reporting and portfolio tooling.
• Support capacity planning and workforce insights by analysing demand vs capacity, resource utilisation, and partnering with delivery teams to improve data quality.
• Contribute to AOP planning and ongoing PMO operations by supporting financial modelling, coordinating governance forums, maintaining PMO artefacts, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Bring

• 2+ years’ experience in a PMO Analyst, Project Analyst, or similar delivery support role within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong capability in financial management, including tracking, reporting, forecasting, and financial journaling processes.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a strong focus on data accuracy, integrity, and quality assurance.
• Proven experience producing clear, concise portfolio and executive-level reporting and insights.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies, with the ability to operate across different delivery frameworks.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, with experience using PPM or portfolio management tools (Jira/Jira Align) to support reporting and analysis.
• Experience using SAP, S/4HANA to support financial reporting and analysis

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