Manager / Senior Manager – Commercial, Financial & …, Melbourne

Job Overview Our Financial Optimisation team is growing, and we are seeking an experienced Manager / Senior Manager (Associate Director) with strong strategic, commercial and financial acumen, who is comfortable across multiple sectors and ready to work collaboratively as part of a high‑performing team to grow the business and deliver value for clients. Key Responsibilities
- Financial Optimisation & Value Creation: Identify, quantify, and present revenue uplift, cost reduction, productivity, and margin improvement opportunities; building robust business cases.
- Target Operating Model Design: Design future‑state operating models aligned to strategy, covering organisation, processes, governance, and service delivery.
- Implementation & Benefits Realisation: Develop practical implementation roadmaps, track financial perks, and support execution of Target Operating Model changes.
- Business Development: Work with our leadership to grow the practice by contributing to business development, proposals and practice initiatives.
- Engage with Stakeholders: Work collaboratively with Federal and State Government stakeholders, supporting workshops, presentations, and reports.
- Learn and Grow: Work closely with senior colleagues to build your consulting skills, industry knowledge, and professional confidence. Qualifications
- Significant experience within a Tier 1 consulting firm, boutique or mid‑tier consulting practice in organisational strategy, financial advisory, or transformation roles, with exposure to Strategy, Target Operating Model design and financial performance improvement engagements.
- Structure ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses, analysis and actionable recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex engagements and manage senior client relationships.
- Strong financial analysis and business case modelling skills, including revenue, cost, productivity, and benefits realisation.
- Experience assessing and redesigning operating models, covering organisation structure, processes, governance, and service delivery.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate insights into compelling executive narratives that influence critical decisions.
- Comfortable working in fast‑paced, ambiguous, and change‑driven environments.
- Business development mindset: capable of leading proposals, identifying new opportunities, nurturing client relationships.
- Ability to coach and develop more junior staff. Benefits
- Market leading Parental Leave: Allows either carer to take 26 weeks of leave, flexibly, until a child is two years of age. A six‑month minimum service requirement for new starters applies. We also make full superannuation contributions for up to 12 months (including unpaid parental leave).
- Flex working: Our people have the autonomy to choose where and when they work so they can integrate their professional and personal lives. If it works for them, their teams, and their clients, it works for us.
- Additional leave: a 5th week of paid leave to support rest, wellbeing, and inclusion during our annual summer shutdown, Birthday leave, First Nations Cultural Leave, Floating Public Holidays, Leave+ (purchased leave up to 12 weeks), Study Leave, Volunteering Leave, and more.
- Employee share options for every team member, reflecting our commitment to shared success and ownership.
- Smart Device reimbursement: Working flexibly means accessing the information you need on the go. That’s why we help pay for your smartphone or tablet, claiming up to $60 a month towards your bill.
- Wellness and Lifestyle benefits: We’ll give you $295 a year to spend on items or activities that support your wellness, and up to $205 a year to support your balanced lifestyle and free coffee at our local coffee shop when in the office.
- Sonder: A digital care platform that empowers people to actively take control of their wellbeing to live well and perform at their best, free to Scyne employees and their immediate family members. Diversity & Inclusion We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and promoting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We encourage applications from those in marginalized and/or historically underrepresented communities within our workforce. Additionally, if you require any adjustments to the process, please let us know. We are passionate about improving outcomes with First Peoples, working in collaboration with government and community sectors towards programmes which focus on First Nations clients, consumers and communities. We recognise the knowledge, insights and capabilities of First Peoples. Their strength, resilience and cultural competence are highly valued. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rus4b