Commercial Analyst, Projects

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

Join our Finance team as a Commercial Analyst, Projects, and be part of a highly collaborative environment supporting major enterprise initiatives. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to deliver high quality financial insight, control, and partnership across large and complex portfolios.

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

• Monitoring project financial performance across the portfolio, including capex, opex, and benefits.
• Tracking actuals vs forecast, identifying variances, and highlighting risks/opportunities.
• Ensuring compliance with financial policies, investment frameworks, and approval processes.
• Partnering with project teams to develop robust, decision-ready arguments.
• Supporting investment and expense governance processes, including approvals and ongoing monitoring.
• Providing consolidated reporting of forecast and plan, gathering insights into variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Supporting finance processes, including Mid/FY Year end reviews, annual net book value reviews, and more.
• Taking initiative to spot potential improvements and assisting in the simplification, standardisation, and efficiency of financial processes and reporting.

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

• Proven experience in financial control, project finance, and expense management.
• Outstanding skills in monitoring financial performance and identifying variances.
• A solid grasp of financial policies, investment frameworks, and approval procedures.
• The capability to develop robust and decision-ready arguments.
• The ability to assist financial processes and governance frameworks to encourage trusted, accurate, and compliant financial management.
• Experience in providing insightful and forward-looking reporting, planning, and forecasting.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively with finance, project/portfolio managers, and business partners.
• Taking initiative to spot improvement opportunities and assist with process simplification and standardisation.

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