Senior Project Analyst

Company Description

Empower Australia’s Payments Future with Cuscal  

At Cuscal, your skills drive change and make a real impact. Whether you’re supporting our clients’ customers in our Fraud Operations Contact Centre or delivering innovative solutions in Product Delivery, your contribution helps shape the payments industry’s future.  

Join a team that values collaboration, innovation and excellence. With a focus on professional growth and flexibility, Cuscal is where you can thrive.  

Forward with Cuscal.  

Job Description

As part of a conditional, binding agreement to acquire another Australian payment services provider, subject to regulatory approvals, we are looking for a Senior Project Analyst to join our Program team. 

As the Senior Project Analyst you will, provide oversight and support for the effective delivery of the project workstream’s outputs and products, ensuring that each project stream within the broader program is executed successfully.  

You’ll be responsible for driving the achievement of strategic objectives and benefits, maintaining delivery within budget, on schedule, and to the required standard of quality, in alignment with Cuscal’s Project Management and Project Investment Governance and Execution Frameworks.   

You’ll also make an impact by:  

• Maintain integration governance with clear controls to manage progress, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and resources.  
• Coordinate integration tasks with Program outcomes—synergy, culture, and operations—under direction from the Program Director and Integration Lead.  
• Provide a consistent and precise overview of integration progress, enabling effective change management and informed decision-making regarding legacy systems, processes, and priorities.  
• Apply best practice project governance frameworks appropriate to the Program and ensure data hygiene across program management systems e.g JIRA, Confluence.  
• Collaborate with both internal and external teams to develop plans aligned with the agreed scope of work and manage stakeholders and their expectations.  
• Manage executive reporting cadence to track integration milestones, synergy targets, and risk indicators using RAG status and clear stakeholder communication (as needed and applicable to the workstream).  
• Ensure adherence to project governance frameworks, templates, and methodologies to drive quality delivery.  
• Support Program budget management, including synergy tracking, transition costs, forecasting, contingency and resource utilization to ensure alignment with financial plans.  
• Review business cases, funding proposals, and change requests for completeness and alignment with scope, schedule, and resource needs 

Qualifications

What you’ll bring  

You’ve got an inquisitive nature with the ability to see the bigger picture; you’ve got excellent communication skills and are detail orientated. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about Agile ways of working.   

To succeed in this role, you’ll have:  

• 5+ years of experience performing end to end project governance (PMO) of complex initiatives, covering business, technology and vendor engagement involving multiple industry stakeholders and multi delivery streams of work  
• Experience of structured project methodologies, tools and recognised project management disciplines overseeing quality assurance and change processes and practises.  
• Exceptional organisation skills and are skilled in influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making  
• Tertiary education/degree equivalent and have Prince2/PMP or equivalent  

Although not required the following experience would be highly desirable:  

• Experience with mergers and acquisitions, or in fast-growing environment.   
• Financial Services experience in payments and banking.  

Additional Information

Why Cuscal? 

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.   

Here, you’ll deliver or support interesting, ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves.  

You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams. 

And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow.   

You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits, including: 

• Recognition and growth: Celebrate achievements through IGNITE and grow with tailored development opportunities. 

• Wellbeing focus: Access initiatives supporting physical, mental, and financial health, plus discounts via ‘Cuscal Advantage.’ 

• Diversity and inclusion: Join a workplace that values different perspectives and flexible work arrangements. 

Join us and reimagine the future 

Ready to make an impact? Click APPLY to join today. 

If you’re excited about this opportunity, we’d love to explore how you can contribute to our vision for the future. Screening and interviews may occur before the job ad closing date, so don’t wait - apply now. 

Cuscal is an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment and a positive, barrier-free recruitment process.  

We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with a disability, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.   

Note: Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms.