Portable

Role Description You’re a senior practitioner who sits at the intersection of data, service design, and organisational complexity. You’ve spent years helping organisations make sense of their data – not just technically, but as humans. You understand that data problems are almost always people and process problems first, and you know how to untangle them. You’re as comfortable running a cross-functional workshop as you are mapping a data landscape or drafting a governance framework. You are forward-thinking about AI and how it supports your work. You can hold a credible conversation with an IT lead about system integrations, then turn around and explain the same thing to an executive in plain language. You produce deliverables that people actually use. Across our engagements, you might: - Discovery and current-state analysis - Map data landscapes – what data exists, where it lives, how it moves between systems and teams - Identify gaps, inconsistencies, shadow processes, and manual workarounds that create or consume important data - Conduct stakeholder interviews and workshops to surface pain points and current-state practices - Assess data quality issues – duplication, incomplete records, inconsistent definitions – and their organisational root causes - Apply AI across these processes to accelerate analysis and focus effort where it adds the most value - Governance and future-state design - Design practical data governance frameworks: principles, roles, decision rights, standards, and escalation paths - Define the use of AI - how models access organisational data, what they're permitted to do with it, and who's accountable for the outcomes - Define data domains and map datasets to business purpose, ownership, and stewardship responsibilities - Develop future-state operating models and transition roadmaps that are staged, realistic, and fit for purpose - Document roles and responsibilities – Data Owners, Stewards, Custodians – in ways people can actually act on - Facilitation and stakeholder alignment - Design and run cross-functional workshops for discovery, validation, and alignment – bringing competing stakeholders into the room - Navigate complex organisational dynamics across multiple teams, with varying data literacy and competing priorities - Communicate clearly with executives and operational teams, translating between technical and non-technical audiences - Build genuine buy-in, not just sign-off - Delivery - Manage your own engagements with light oversight – coordinating stakeholders, maintaining workplans, and tracking progress - Produce concise, evidence-based deliverables: process maps, data flow diagrams, governance frameworks, roadmaps, and RACI matrices - Contribute to scoping and estimation for proposals where your expertise is relevant Qualifications - 6+ years of experience in roles that combine data, design, and complex stakeholder environments - Experience from service design, business analysis, data strategy, or information management Requirements - Demonstrated experience mapping data landscapes and assessing data quality in complex, multi-system environments - Strong facilitation skills – you’ve run workshops that actually move things forward, not just surface information - Experience designing governance frameworks, operating models, or data strategies that organisations can realistically adopt, including the use of AI - Comfort with ambiguity and low data maturity – you don’t need a clean slate to do good work - Excellent written communication – your deliverables are clear, practical, and used, not filed away - Tech literacy: able to understand system architectures, integration points, and data flows without being a developer Benefits - People from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply How to apply To be considered, please send us your: - CV and LinkedIn profile - Availability - when could you start, and at what capacity - Day rate

• Consolidated financial management across the Portable group, including five to seven trading entities, subsidiaries, and the integration of newly acquired businesses. • Monthly reporting and forecasting to the CEO, SLT, and Board, with the analytical depth to drive decisions rather than just record outcomes. • Cash and working capital management through a period of acquisition activity, integration cost, and revenue scaling. • Statutory compliance and year-end in partnership with our external accountant, including ATO relationship management and audit-readiness. • Financial support for the “buy-and-build” plan: preparing and analysing the numbers for due diligence, helping assess valuation and deal economics, and leading the finance integration once deals complete. • Banking and facilities including managing the day-to-day banking relationship, facility and covenant compliance, and debt servicing, working with the CEO on the structuring of acquisition finance. • Integration finance for acquired businesses: chart of accounts, financial reporting, working capital harmonisation, and the commercial check on whether each acquisition is delivering against its case. • Operating economics in partnership with the Director of Delivery including studio margins, utilisation, sell rates, project economics. • Pricing and commercial structure for major proposals, particularly non-standard and commercially complex deals. • Senior Leadership Team membership as an operating leader, not just a finance head. • Finance team leadership across our offshore finance operations and the external accountant relationship, with the discretion to reshape the function as the group grows. • Coaching and commercial partnership with the Director of Delivery as they grow into full operating P&L ownership over the next 12 to 18 months.

Our mission is to seek out areas of social need and policy failure and make transformational change using design and technology. We believe that government, organisations and businesses can be a force of good but there can be a gap between their understanding of, and ability to meet the expectations of those needing positive change. Our job is to use design, technology and production to narrow the gap between those with the power and responsibility to make a positive change, and those who need it. If you’d like to join us but didn’t see a current job vacancy that meets your skill set or interest, or are interested in an internship, please submit your details below. Every week we receive requests to meet our team members to discuss career opportunities, which makes it difficult to respond to them all. Our advice — if you are looking for a role or career advice — is reach out directly to someone you know at Portable and/or come along to one of our regular events to connect. How to submit your application: We might not have the perfect role for you yet, but we’ll keep your application on file for when the role becomes available. To apply send us your resume and cover letter answering the following questions. What job do you wish we had available for you? Why Portable is right for you, and why are you right for Portable? Provide an example of your work. This could be your portfolio, links to websites you played a role in creating or a written description of your role in recent projects