The main purpose of the Cost Control Lead is to optimise project success by delivering against agreed program objectives. Some of the key specifications we attribute to the purpose include:

• Oversee and lead the cost control team to ensure effective management of project cost.
• Work collaboratively with the Planning, Risk, Change, Reporting, Commercial, Delivery, and Finance teams to ensure integrated project controls.
• Develop and implement cost control plan & procedures to monitor and manage project cost.
• Understanding and knowledge of cost control systems like EcoSys , Prism etc
• Establish and maintain project budgets.
• Implement change management processes within cost control frameworks.
• Prepare regular cost reports, forecasts, and financial summaries for stakeholders.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and recommend corrective actions.
• Track actual costs against budgeted figures and analyze variances.
• Monitor and control project expenditures, ensuring adherence to approved budgets.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and project contract requirements
• Develop and implement Earned Value Management (EVM) systems to track project performance.
• Analyse project data to calculate EVM metrics.
• Prepare reports based on EVM metrics to provide insights into project progress and performance.

The Role

Partner with and support a portfolio of business areas to strengthen and continuously improve
the management of risk, and build risk and compliance capability throughout the organisation.
The portfolio for this role includes, among other things, the ALH hotels business, which has a
unique risk profile that includes both regulatory compliance risk and operational risk. Working
within the growing Risk and Compliance function (Line 2), you will have the opportunity to work
on risk management activities across the Endeavour business, with a diverse range of business
stakeholders including our Executive Leadership, and build a strong understanding of our
business, purpose and strategy, whilst applying your risk expertise to support and enable our
business to live its purpose and grow. In this role and team you will have an opportunity to drive
innovation (i.e. new ways of approaching risk/compliance management) and real change that
delivers a meaningful impact to our team, our customers and the communities we operate in.

Sounds good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

Support risk management across the business by continuing to embed risk management into our culture and day to day operations: risk identification, risk assessment/analysis, process flow and controls assessment, documentation and reporting - this will be done working closely with senior risk colleagues and partnering with business stakeholders, and will include facilitating risk discussions and workshop sessions throughout the organization, encompassing operational, managerial, and executive levels.

• Proactively contribute to the development and continuous improvement of risk management, compliance and assurance frameworks, strategies and methodologies in conjunction with the wider Risk & Compliance team.
• Support the ongoing embedding of risk management into our culture and ways of working, including identifying new and innovative ways of approaching risk management tailored to the  business audience.
• Preparation of reporting on risk and risk management activities for stakeholders, including Board and Executive management.
• Business partnering - become the go-to leader of risk management for your portfolio of Endeavour’s business e.g. ALH hotels. You will sit alongside the leadership teams for these business areas to support their risk management strategies and enable risk capability uplift across their teams at operational, managerial, and executive levels.
• Proactively build effective relationships with a diverse range of internal stakeholders and develop a deep understanding of the business strategy.
• Apply your risk/compliance knowledge and experience (and influencing skills) to build risk and compliance awareness, engagement and understanding across the business at all levels of the organisation; and look for opportunities to enhance, operationalise and embed risk/compliance management.
• Actively contribute to the continued growth and development of the Risk & Compliance team and their key deliverables.
• Build strong working relationships with team members and work to ensure risk management activities are consistent across internal stakeholder groups where possible.
• Share best practice approaches and ways of working across the team to help fast track the embedding of risk management and the uplift in risk management capabilities across the business.
• Contribute to the improvement and further development of risk, compliance and assurance policies, frameworks and procedures, and the methods for communicating and embedding those frameworks across the business.

Improving employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians is a priority in the work we do at atWork Australia. To allow us to achieve this we have a specialised team of Indigenous Connections Coaches who work alongside our job coaches to further support our Indigenous Clients with their employment goals.

We are seeking a manager to lead the team of Indigenous Connections Coaches across the country and will be responsible for:

• Supporting, coaching, and giving strategies to Indigenous Connections Coaches to assist our clients into sustainable employment.
• Supporting Indigenous Connections Coaches to assist our clients with the transition into employment through supported interviews and first day and week support.
• Ensuring each Employment Region has relationships with Indigenous organisations who provide wrap around supports for our clients.

This is a great opportunity for somebody who is looking to take the next step in their career. The location of this role is flexible from any of our offices in South Australia, Western Australia or New South Wales. 

To lead this specialist team, it is important that you have a deep understanding of, and a strong connection with, Indigenous cultures and communities.

• Support the development of our Category Strategy - connecting everyone with a drinks experience they’ll love!
• Leverage data & insights to drive continuous improvement and sustainable brand growth for Endeavour.
• Bring your passion and feel the energy.

As a Category Manager, you inspire teams to connect everyone with a drinks experience they’ll love. You support the development and oversee the execution of the 6 - 24 month category strategy for Endeavour Group or within a retail brand. You work closely with the Category team and cross functional team to manage the commercial and go to market proposition, whilst delivering on core business priorities. 

Sound good? Read on.
Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Category Strategy Development: Lead the development and execution of the 6-24 month category strategy, including key category jobs to be done.
• Innovation Partnerships: Identify partnerships with our supplier network, creating strategic initiatives and product innovation to focus on the customer needs of tomorrow.
• Data-Driven Growth: Leverage data and insights to understand customer trends, driving continuous improvement and sustainable brand growth.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate across teams and suppliers to ensure efficient on-time delivery of products, marketing campaigns, and promotions in line with the Customer Trade Plan.
• Industry Expertise: Build deep industry knowledge and develop portfolio, promotional and marketing strategies to meet sales and KPI objectives.
• Team Leadership: Lead and inspire your team by role-modelling values, building commitment to business strategies, and developing future leaders through feedback and succession planning.

Pedestrian are looking for a Creative Project Manager to lead and manage high-quality native content campaigns. In this role, you'll work closely with clients and internal teams to ensure the smooth execution of end-to-end campaigns across various industries. Your responsibilities will include campaign management, client communication, content review, and reporting, all while ensuring campaigns meet timelines, budgets, and commercial objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Client Management: Serve as the key point of contact, providing exceptional service and managing client presentations and regular check-ins.
• Campaign Leadership: Manage multiple campaigns, ensuring strong brand representation across video, content production, and promotional materials.
• Campaign Operations: Oversee deliverables, timelines, budgets, and communication with clients and internal teams.
• Content Briefing: Coordinate with Native Content teams to ensure briefs are clear and actionable, supporting talent coordination for shoots.
• Internal Stakeholder Management: Lead internal projects and communicate with senior leaders across Pedestrian Group and Nine businesses.
• Financial Management: Oversee project budgets, ensuring financial accuracy and meeting production deadlines.

The Operational Excellence Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing strategic initiatives within Guzman y Gomez. From ideation to national rollout, you will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to integrate operational excellence into every facet of our projects, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

What you can expect in the role:

• Serve as a subject matter expert in all systems utilised in our restaurants, including inventory, POS, time & attendance and digital platforms
• Prioritise and execute solution and innovation projects to achieve positive business outcomes, collaborating closely with key stakeholders
• Assess and communicate the financial impacts of operational trials to relevant departments
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of daily restaurant operations and schedule regular visits for insights and feedback
• Engage collaboratively with franchisees, managers and crew to identify opportunities for improvement and prioritise trial/adjustment initiatives
• Support the rollout of projects within established timelines and budgets, considering operational impacts
• Coordinate training and communication materials associated with projects and change management
• Actively support field operations teams in implementing new changes and seeking feedback for continuous improvement
• Execute the communication and implementation of the strategic plan in a timely and efficient manner

You’ll enjoy the role if you have:

• Experience as an Area Manager, Operations Manager or similar role in Quick Service Restaurants, Hospitality or Food and Beverage
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• High level of stakeholder management skills
• Project Management experience (highly desirable)
• Excellent problem solving and influencing skills

Benefits

We’re incredibly proud of our amazing people and always have each other’s backs. Whether you’re working in restaurant, at our Hola Central head office or as one of our partners, we are so passionate about living our values every single day.

These are just some of the benefits that come with working at GYG:

• Hybrid work environment 1 day WFH p/week
• 5 weeks annual leave as part of 'Love Ya Leave' policy
• $100 phone allowance p/month
• Career growth – Australia and internationally
• Opportunity to become a franchisee
• Annual bonus scheme
• Paid parental leave
• GYG gift voucher

Ready to join the team? Apply now to start the conversation

Finance Manager - Format, Network & Property

The Finance Manager - Property Network, is responsible for partnering with the Senior leaders in the Retail and Hotels Property & Formats teams to deliver on their strategic objectives, provide insights on network performance and ultimately optimise returns on our network and property assets.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Lead the long term financial planning processes for the property network, supporting the property and formats team
• Identification and quantification of growth opportunities, network risks and underperforming assets. 
• Evaluation of organic network opportunities (new stores) and risks (retail closures / venue disposals) through business case development to approval, budgeting and impact on forecast results.
• Establish a regular cadence and post implementation review framework for performance tracking and KPI’s for Formats, Network and Property investments.
• Specifically, provide insights and analysis on opportunities to optimise return on property and formats investments, measuring returns on capital, and identifying opportunities to recycle or reprioritise capital. 
• Evaluation of lease commitments including assessment of lease extension decisions and ongoing occupancy cost planning & reporting.
• Design and optomise financial accounting and reporting processes associated with facilities management processes including services provided by 3rd parties.
• Provide overhead cost management support to the Director of Property & Director of Formats,
• Lead two finance analysts to ensure they are high-performing business partners in the provision of decision support, reporting and analysis to the relevant business and brand finance teams.

First Focus is Australia's best mid-market Managed Service Provider, bar none (check it out! We got named the best MSP in Aus for the 7th year running at CloudTango dot com). We are growing fast and now have over 300 staff across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa and Ireland. We are a stable and very focused company, with over 20 years of consistent growth and we're continuing to win new clients and evolve our solutions.

We pride ourselves on being a genuinely great place to work, with a dynamic culture, clear vision and strong leadership. We only hire the best people and are looking for a strong IT professional with a deep understanding of both Managed Services and the needs of mid-tier clients.

We are looking for the best UCaaS-specialised Account Manager in Australia. Why would such a competent and talented individual consider coming to First Focus? What makes First Focus better than where you are today?

• Rock solid technical delivery team! Work with people who get tech, from L1 to CEO and can work with you to meet and exceed the expectations you set with our clients.
• We understand the value you deliver and we will give you the support to get the job done!
• Develop sales opportunities for products that genuinely deliver value - Zoom, MS Teams, 3CX, Mitel
• We find and retain the best. Best Service Desk, best Project Engineers, and of course, you - the best team!
  

Role

Account Managers at First Focus combine their deep technical understanding with a desire to provide genuine customer service and deliver sales consulting. It's a perfect role for anyone looking for variety, challenges and career progression as you will be working with multiple potential clients to develop opportunities from warm lead to supported solution.

Our Account managers work together with technical delivery and IT support teams so there's no shortage of technical backing when you need it.

This role would perfectly suit someone who is currently an experienced UCaaS Account Manager (obviously) or an experienced UCaaS pre-sales professional looking for their next step,

The perfect candidate for this role will join a team of highly specialised consultants and technical experts. To suit this role, you will have substantial experience working with a range client scales (sub 50 up to 1000 seats) and possess technical and business competence across a broad range of technologies within the IT infrastructure domain.

If you are at the top of your game in a UCaaS specialist provider, an MSP, MSSP or integrator and are looking for the next big step, this could be it. Rather than give you a long list of wants, we'll keep this brief. The following four things are non-negotiables:

1. You must have history and demonstrable competence in delivering outstanding pre-sales, sales and/or technical advice within another UCaaS specialist organisation, MSP, MSSP, integrator or other service providing IT business
2. You must be able to demonstrate success developing UCaaS opportunities within small to mid-scale clients across a range of industries and market verticals, ideally demonstrating experience in Zoom, Teams, 3CX or Mitel cloud-based solutions
3. Your values must resonate with ours. Our values can be found on the First Focus website on the About Us page
4. You must have a driving passion for helping people understand and use technology within their business that leads you to uncover latent needs and lead clients toward high-quality solutions.

First Focus’ values are based around keeping everyone informed, aligned, supported, and rewarding performance. Some examples of this include:

• Competitive package, 100% salary, 0% commission
• All employees have free access to Uprise, including 1:1 coaching sessions from qualified psychologists or counsellors
• First Focus understands the importance of flexibility for a satisfying work-life balance, which is why we offer hybrid working arrangements
• ‘Never Stop Growing’ is deeply embedded in our DNA - we offer 1 paid study day every month and support employees towards certifications and qualifications - we will not only pay for the exam but will also give you a pay rise for achieving certs (conditions apply, of course)
• Staff are encouraged to take advantage of our weekly internal training sessions and library
• Opportunities for personal and professional development with our FastTrack mentor and Leadership Lab training programs
• We have our very own MAD (making a difference) Council, focusing on equality, charity, and the environment
• Option of a Tesla company car as part of your ongoing employment package (conditions apply)
• Regular social events and a great team culture!

First Focus welcomes applications from Neurodiverse candidates. We recommend & appreciate disclosure along with the application so that a copy of our Neurodiversity Statement can be provided outlining the flexible options we can offer to best showcase your skills.

Start your leadership journey with ALDI! From driving sales, to serving customers and supervising staff, our Duty Managers always lead from the front.

Your purpose is ensuring our store runs smoothly during your shift. You'll be supporting and guiding team members, handling customer inquiries and working collaboratively as part of the store management team. All the while, you'll be honing your leadership skills and truly making a difference for your team and our customers.

The specifics? Here's what you’ll be doing:

• Opening and closing the store and supervising shifts
• Offering feedback to the team that's clear, constructive, and inspiring
• Assisting in training and onboarding team members
• Being a customer service superstar and serving customers at the registers with a smile
• Keeping shelves stocked with products so that our customers can find all their favourites
• Keeping a keen lookout for any incidents or hazards to keep everyone safe

Ready to take the next step in your retail leadership career? As an Assistant Store Manager at ALDI, take charge of daily operations, driving sales, and inspiring your team to be their best.

As a member of the leadership team in store, you support the Store Manager in all areas of running a multi-million-dollar business. From motivating team members to rostering and reporting, you’ll be part of an exceptional team that delivers extraordinarily efficient service to our customers.

As an Assistant Store Manager you’ll:

• Help to develop the next generation of leaders in our stores by training and coaching team members to be their best
• Keep your store looking top-notch, upholding the highest standards of safety and cleanliness
• Manage our stock, keeping an eye on inventory, and minimising losses
• Work alongside your team on registers, filling shelves and merchandising special buys
• Identify opportunities for improvement - we love a good idea!
• Ensure our stores run smoothly, helping to keep our customers Australia’s most satisfied . There’s nothing like the satisfaction of a job well done!
• Step up and run the store whilst the Store Manager is on leave.

Ready to take the next step in your retail leadership career? As an Assistant Store Manager at ALDI, take charge of daily operations, driving sales, and inspiring your team to be their best.

As a member of the leadership team in store, you support the Store Manager in all areas of running a multi-million-dollar business. From motivating team members to rostering and reporting, you’ll be part of an exceptional team that delivers extraordinarily efficient service to our customers.

As an Assistant Store Manager you’ll:

• Help to develop the next generation of leaders in our stores by training and coaching team members to be their best
• Keep your store looking top-notch, upholding the highest standards of safety and cleanliness
• Manage our stock, keeping an eye on inventory, and minimising losses
• Work alongside your team on registers, filling shelves and merchandising special buys
• Identify opportunities for improvement - we love a good idea!
• Ensure our stores run smoothly, helping to keep our customers Australia’s most satisfied . There’s nothing like the satisfaction of a job well done!
• Step up and run the store whilst the Store Manager is on leave.