At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead strategic cyber initiatives and ensure successful delivery outcomes.
- Company: Join Macquarie, a global financial services leader with a strong commitment to security.
- Benefits: Enjoy wellbeing leave, flexible work options, and extensive learning opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and offers career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in cybersecurity while shaping your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in managing complex portfolios and excellent stakeholder communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Our Cyber team plays a critical role in protecting Macquarie's people, customers and business operations. Our team works across a portfolio of strategic cyber initiatives, partnering with technology, risk and business stakeholders to strengthen security capabilities, manage risk and deliver meaningful outcomes that support the organisation's long-term objectives.
As a Portfolio Lead, you will own the planning, governance and delivery visibility of a portfolio of Cyber initiatives, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into realistic and achievable plans. You will partner closely with a Domain Lead, providing a trusted view of portfolio health, managing priorities, risks and dependencies, and enabling informed decision-making across senior stakeholders. Your work will help drive successful delivery outcomes by ensuring the portfolio remains aligned, transparent and focused on the highest-value activities.
What you offer:
- Extensive experience leading complex portfolios, programmes or enterprise delivery environments with multiple interconnected initiatives and competing priorities.
- Strong ability to translate strategic objectives into prioritised delivery plans, balancing capacity, dependencies, risks and business outcomes.
- Experience establishing and managing portfolio governance, executive reporting and decision-making frameworks that support effective delivery.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and influence senior leaders across technology, risk and business teams.
- Proven experience using portfolio management tools such as Jira, combined with strong judgement, problem-solving capability and a proactive approach to managing risk, ambiguity and change.
What we offer:
- 1 wellbeing leave day per year.
- Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year.
- Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non-primary caregivers.
- 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching.
- Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations.
- Access to a wide range of salary packaging options.
- Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription.
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role.
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment.
About Technology:
Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We're a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.
Inclusion at Macquarie:
We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance. We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.
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