Senior Associate / Manager – Strategy & Performance Improvement

About Scyne

At Scyne, we provide professional services across critical sectors that serve the public interest. We support governments, agencies and other organisations to deliver services to Australians, helping to build more resilient, equitable, secure and prosperous communities. One purpose, one practice.

Our purpose-driven professionals provide clients with access to the skills, capabilities and expertise to support the delivery of government agendas and public purpose projects, with specialist teams across three national practices:

• Transformation
• Risk, Programs and Cyber
• Commercial, Financial and Infrastructure

We are guided by our values of:

• Stronger Together
• Amplify Impact
• Build Trusted Relationships
• Value Every Person
• Think Beyond Limits
• Defined by Ethics

The Team: 

Our Strategic and Performance Improvement team is focused on strategy, performance improvement, and operational restructuring to optimise clients’ financial performance and sustainability. We deliver enhanced commercial outcomes, optimise cost structures and ensure sustainable value creation through strategic insight and rigorous financial analysis. Leveraging deep industry insight, we work with senior executives to build confidence in decisions that strengthen their financial performance and sustainability. 

The Opportunity: 

Our Strategic Performance Improvement team is growing and, we are seeking an experienced consulting professionals at the Senior Associate / Manager level, bringing strategy and performance improvement expertise. We are looking for individuals with expertise in strategy and performance improvement, who brings strong strategic, commercial and financial acumen. The successful candidate will be comfortable working across multiple sectors, thrive in collaborative, high performing teams and is passionate about delivering lasting value for clients while contributing to the continued growth of our business. 

As a Senior Associate / Manager, you will lead teams and collaborate with clients across a range of industries to develop and deliver impactful engagements from strategic operating model reviews through to delivery of operational and financial performance improvement solutions, including: 

• Performance Optimisation & Value Creation: Identify and quantify opportunities to improve revenue, reduce costs, increase productivity and unlock enterprise value. Translate findings into robust business cases and investment decisions.

• Strategy Development: Collaborate with senior executive leaders to define an organisation’s strategic vision and direction and develop the strategic plan to achieve it. 

• Target Operating Model Design: Design future-state operating models that align strategy with organisational structure, governance, processes, capabilities, technology and service delivery.

• Implementation & Benefits Realisation: Develop practical implementation roadmaps and establish governance and monitor mechanisms to track financial and operational benefits.

• Business Development: Work with Scyne to grow the practice by contributing to business development, proposals and practice initiatives.

You bring a combination of:

• Experience within a Tier 1, mid-tier or boutique consulting practice in organisational strategy, financial advisory, or transformation roles. Experience in strategy, target operating model design and financial performance improvement projects is highly regarded. 

• Ability to structure ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses, rigorous analysis and actionable recommendations. 

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and manage senior client relationships. 

• Strong financial analysis and business case modelling skills, including experience assessing revenue, cost and productivity opportunities.

• 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. 

• Experience developing proposals and business development initiatives, identifying new engagement opportunities, nurturing client relationships and thought leadership pieces. 

• Ability to coach and develop more junior staff. 

Why join us?

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, finding the right balance that fuels their growth, wellbeing, engagement and productivity. 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 also 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.

We Value Every Person and Every Voice:

We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and promoting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

We are passionate about improving outcomes with First Peoples, working in collaboration with government and community sectors towards programs 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.

We know that an inclusive culture, and collective intelligence improves the decision-making processes and is critical to delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients and team. We encourage applications from those in marginalised and/or historically underrepresented communities within our workforce. Additionally, if you require any adjustments to the process, please let us know

Recruitment and Assessment Process:

Scyne’s approach to recruitment and selection is underpinned by key principles and expectations, ensuring we recruit and onboard a skilled and diverse workforce that is representative of the communities and organisations we serve. We ensure selection to roles is fair, with equal access provided, and appointments factor in but not limited to relative ability to fulfil the role, prior performance, potential and alignment with our values – taking unique experiences, perspectives, and contributions into consideration.

We carry out background checks on our people to ensure we have made a sound hiring decision and to protect the organisation and our clients from potential risk. If required, confirmation of a valid Commonwealth security clearance or the ability to obtain a Commonwealth security clearance.

At Scyne, we deeply value our recruitment partnerships. To ensure a clear and efficient process, we kindly request that all candidate submissions from search firms and recruiters are only made in alignment with a pre-existing, signed agreement for a specific position. Please note that any resumes submitted to Scyne for this position on an unsolicited basis, without a prior agreement, will not create any financial obligation for us. Consequently, we will not be liable for any fees or commissions should an unsolicited candidate be engaged, regardless of any conflicting terms or conditions you may have.