Transformation Analyst

It starts with YES!

 

 

Our Transformation Analyst role is an outstanding opportunity to play a central role in supporting enterprise-wide central and transformation decision-making. This position offers the chance to provide clear, data-driven analysis and financial assessment of key initiatives. You will be critical in evaluating proposed and active projects across the business, assessing viability, financial return, resource impact, and alignment to central objectives. Your insights will directly influence the direction of our central initiatives and commercial outcomes.

 

 

 

What you’ll do

 

• Evaluate the financial and commercial impact of strategic initiatives through cost-benefit analysis, ROI assessment, and scenario planning.
• Build and maintain robust financial models to track performance, support and guide decision-making.
• Partner with Finance, Data, Product, and other teams to align assumptions, track benefits, and prepare portfolio-level insights.
• Create documentation for governance forums, including investment summaries and recommendation papers.
• Monitor strategic KPIs, identify emerging risks, and deliver clear performance reports to senior leaders.
• Act as a trusted advisor, helping shape ideas into commercially viable proposals.

 

 

What you’ll bring

 

• 3–5 years’ experience in an analyst or strategy role.
• Tertiary qualification in finance, business, data science, economics, or a related field.
• Strong financial modelling and data analysis skills (Excel, SQL, Python or R).
• Experience with data visualisation (e.g. Tableau) and executive-level reporting (PowerPoint).
• Exceptional problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, and organisational skills.

 

 

Perks we love at Optus

 

• 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!
• Inclusive gender-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Competitive leave including 2 additional 'Connected Leave' days.
• All Optus colleagues can access resources, webinars, and support through the ‘Parents at Work portal’.
• Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator-led learning catalogue.
• Connect at work through our colleague-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans, Yarn Network, Wellbeing Network and Young Professionals.
• Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office.
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon!

 

 

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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. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

 

 

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