Commercial Manager, Networks (12m Contract)

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 Commercial Manager to business partner with the networks leadership group to support month end, forecasting and planning outcomes for revenue, opex, capex & business cases to ensure achievement of both customer and financial objectives.

This is an ambitious and diverse role, and the person responsible must be comfortable engaging with people at all levels of the organisation including C‑level executives, VPs and Heads of across Networks and the wider Optus business. The role will be required to present to, partner with, and influence senior people across Networks to deliver financial outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Monthly results reporting covering Cost of Sales, Staff and other Non‑Staff Opex and Income, and capitalisation of labour and non‑labour costs.
• Monitoring and managing expenditure to meet AOP and / or forecasts and supervising material risks and opportunities throughout the year.
• Oversee commercial aspects of government grants and programs, including audit planning, coordination, and external liaison.
• Quarterly forecasting and annual planning processes for these divisions, and input to preparation of the total Networks Opex budget plan (AOP).
• Development of process documentation for key financial activities in the Networks Commercial team.
• Regular interface with Commercial Centre of Excellence, corporate Financial Operations and other finance groups within Optus & Singtel.
• Provide commercial support to Network SLT’s and liaise with the Commercial Leadership team regarding issues and impacts to operating and capital budgets.

What makes you perfect for the role?

What’s in it for you?

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.

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