Business Platforms Portfolio Officer

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia's energy future. We're not doing it alone. We're doing it with our customers and communities as Australia's energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Business Platforms Portfolio Officer to join our Technology team in our Brisbane office on a permanent full-time basis.

As part of the Business Platforms Delivery Team, you'll play a key role in supporting the delivery and governance of APA's Business Platforms Portfolio. You'll help maintain portfolio plans, coordinate governance forums, and drive continuous improvement in project management processes.

Reporting to the Business Platforms Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring transparency, consistency, and decision-readiness across inflight initiatives, while uplifting delivery maturity through reporting, stakeholder engagement, and process optimisation.

You will join a high performing team that is accountable for the delivery of multiple complex Programs, Projects and Initiatives for our business customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain portfolio plans, dashboards, and reporting artefacts to support executive decision-making.
• Coordinate governance forums including scheduling, agenda preparation, and action tracking.
• Support the development of executive briefing packs, steering committee papers, and status reports.
• Provide project management support including standing up programs, projects and initiatives in APA PPM, resource forecasting and financial tracking tools.
• Manage demand forecasting, resource utilisation, timesheet compliance, and vendor invoicing.
• Facilitate governance gate reviews and ensure compliance with TPMO processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the portfolio management practices.
• Act as a central coordination point for cross-workstream integration and sequencing.
• Provide data-driven insights to support the portfolio decision-making.

About You

You'll bring a strong background in project and portfolio support, with a passion for operational excellence and stakeholder engagement. You'll be confident working across multiple programs and projects, and thrive in a fast-paced, strategically sensitive environment.

You'll also have:

• Proven experience supporting portfolio, Program and Project Delivery.
• Advanced knowledge of project management lifecycles and methodologies.
• Strong financial tracking and reconciliation skills.
• Advanced MS Office and PPM tool skills (e.g., Altus, MS Project).
• Excellent communication, coordination, and facilitation skills.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CPPP, PMP, PRINCE2) are favourable but not essential.

Working at APA

At APA we're committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We'll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employ more than 2700 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we're focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia's energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia's energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia's energy future. We'd love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.