Program Analyst

**Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Transformation team as a Program Analyst. If you’re a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane or Sydney, we’d love you to apply.**

**Why join us?**
- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

**About the role**

As a **Program Analyst,** you will provide support to the Delivery Office and Program Managers by delivering critical services that enable successful delivery of a portfolio of projects and programs. These support services covering analysis of program financials, procurement, schedules, risks issues and dependencies. You will be required to support multi-disciplined team of project professionals to deliver project output to the success of portfolio initiatives.

You will also provide logístical support to Program Managers in preparation for meetings, workshops and project boards, ensuring programs and projects maintain a high standard of record keeping and information management.

Day to day, you'll:

- Help Program and Project Managers make better budgeting and forecasting decisions by providing financial analysis.
- Compare actual project spending against forecasts by category to support better project and business decisions.
- Create financial reports and analysis when requested by Program or Project Managers.
- Procurement and Purchase Order Management.
- Lead purchase order processes for both labour (e.g. external workers) and non-labour (e.g. Statements of Work).
- Scheduling and Progress Tracking.
- Build and maintain integrated schedules for programs and projects, managing dependencies across work streams.
- Track and report on completed work, remaining tasks, milestones, and dependencies to support decision-making.
- Assist in identifying and analysing risks and issues, ensuring they are recorded and mitigation plans align with Australian Retirement Trust’s Risk Framework.
- Evaluate how effective mitigation plans are and assess changes in residual risk to support informed decisions.
- Help prepare change impact assessments and reports for project boards, sponsors, or governance bodies.

This role is available as a 12-month max-term/ secondment opportunity.

**About you**

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- Proven experience working within a PMO context, at either program or portfolio office levels.
- A strong understanding of portfolio, program and project delivery frameworks, including associated risk management and control frameworks.
- Project financials management.
- Capability to work with a variety of stakeholders that have different needs and objectives.

**About us**

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.