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Position Title

Telstra Corporation Limited - Strategy and Finance Intern

Location

Melbourne

Position Duration

Minimum of 152 hours or 4 weeks full time

Commencing Dec 2019 – Jan 2020

Position Overview

Role Purpose

Strategy & Finance

This role, reporting to the ePMO Manager contributes to the reporting and support activities for Telstra’s enterprise-wide Programme Management Office (ePMO) and Function PMO’s.

The incumbent provides regular reporting to support the annual capital investment planning cycle, and for in year capital program performance monitoring. This includes development, scheduling and preparation of standard and ad hoc system reports to assist the Enterprise and Function Unit PMO’s with their performance analysis, tracking and insights for the Capex Program.

Key Accountabilities

Reporting, decision support and governance

Provision of timely, accurate and consistent capex program reporting to key stakeholders – Enterprise PMO, Function PMO, Project/ Program Manager and Finance stakeholders – including the provision of data driven insight and analysis. Provide reporting to support capex governance decisions and transactions.

Ensuring the EPM365 (CA PPM) is accurate and reflects in plan cases, approvals and appropriate status updates

A key responsibility is management of the EPM365 book of record for programmes and projects within the Capital Investment plan – this includes ensuring that base data is established in line with requirements and project managers are making timely and accurate updates to ensure that the reporting “book of record” is accurate.

Level 3, 80 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2000 (02) 8270 9200 www.and.org.au

Maintain EPM365 enhancements backlog and make recommendations to manage and implement backlog items to align with the broader Capital Management goals and our move to more agile ways of working

Maintenance and support of DRIVE

Manage relationships between Telstra stakeholders and vendor to support ongoing enhancements and maintenance required in DRIVE including influencing outcomes that benefit the broader project community.

Contribution to process, framework development and training activities

Active contributor to changes in Capital Management methodologies, frameworks and approaches for EPM365 reporting and analysis – including participating in cross company capex community forums to provide subject matter expertise on capex reporting.

Develop, maintain and deliver training materials to ensure training is robust and EPM365 functionality well understood and represented to the project community.

Supporting project reviews, interventions, audits and mobilisation activities

Undertake ad hoc system reporting to support project reviews and interventions on specified and agreed programmes and projects, as requested by the Enterprise PMO and Business Unit PMO’s.

Coaching and Guidance

Provision of coaching and guidance for system reporting and analysis to Enterprise and Function PMO’s, program and project managers.

Key Performance Indicators for this role:

Standard capex reports provided on time per agreed timeframes – 100%

Capital Planning NPS (as assessed by Function Portfolios and Finance community) 9 or 10

Qualitative feedback from Function PMO customers on relevance and effectiveness of reporting outputs

Qualitative feedback from Function PMO and Enterprise PMO customers on timeliness, accuracy and quality of ad hoc reports

Skills

Recovering from setbacks

Demonstrating the ability to quickly recover from setbacks and applying mindset and behavioural agility to deliver business outcomes in a complex and ambiguous environment

Commercial acumen

Applying business and commercial fundamentals and success criteria to inform planning and decision making

Translating data into insights

Planning how commercial problems can be addressed with data and analytics solutions, extracting and communicating meaningful insights from analyses, and actioning solutions to each problem

Driving accountability

Driving a culture of accountability in our people and teams to ensure we meet our customers’ needs and deliver what we set out to achieve

Project management

Understanding and applying programmatic planning, coordinating and controlling methods to drive achievement of project outcomes

Stakeholder management

Identifying and managing key stakeholders to gain their support and deliver outcomes

Problem solving

Understanding problems, exploring root causes and evaluating solutions to quickly and effectively solve problems

Microsoft Excel skills (intermediate to advanced) and Microsoft PowerPoint skills (intermediate) required.

Ideal Degree/Discipline

Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Commerce

Eligibility Requirements

Second last or final year of a relevant undergraduate or postgraduate degree

Permanent residents and Australian citizens only

Identify as having disability

Candidates may be required to undergo a background check security clearance

Apply Here

www.tfaforms.com/420924

Contact the AND Programs Team at applications@and.org.au or 1300 363 645 for further information.

Please be aware that all Stepping Into internships are paid placements. The employing organisation will pay the intern’s pro rata salary for the internship period (including superannuation) at a rate commensurate with the duties performed and abiding by Fair Work standards.