About the role

Are you passionate about turning data, performance insights and governance into meaningful business outcomes? As our Senior Performance Analyst, you'll play a critical role in helping Unitywater deliver its strategic objectives by providing enterprise-wide performance analysis, portfolio insights and governance support across our most key initiatives. Partnering with leaders, project teams and stakeholders across the business, you'll help shape investment decisions, drive continuous improvement and ensure strategic projects deliver maximum value. This is an opportunity to influence decision-making at an enterprise level while contributing to the future direction and success of an organisation that delivers essential services to our communities.

In this role, you'll:

- Provide strategic performance insights by analysing portfolio, program and project performance to support informed decision-making and organisational success.
- Support the delivery of major strategic initiatives, ensuring projects align with business priorities, governance requirements and expected benefits.
- Drive continuous improvement by enhancing frameworks, reporting, tools and processes that strengthen portfolio performance and value delivery.
- Partner with leaders and project teams to identify risks, opportunities and trends, providing trusted advice that improves outcomes.
- Champion governance, capability and best practice, coaching stakeholders and helping embed consistent project, portfolio and performance management approaches across the business.

About you

Our One Unitywater behaviours - Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:

Must have

- Relevant qualifications in Business,



Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Experience supporting strategic projects, portfolios or business initiatives, with the ability to analyse performance, identify risks and provide meaningful insights to support decision-making.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the confidence to collaborate with leaders, facilitate discussions and build trusted relationships across the business.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear recommendations and actionable outcomes.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work at pace and deliver high-quality outcomes.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.

Nice to have

- Experience working within a PMO, portfolio management, project governance or business performance environment.
- Experience with business case development, benefits realisation, investment prioritisation or strategic planning activities.
- Experience facilitating workshops, governance forums or executive reporting processes.
- Knowledge of project, program or portfolio management methodologies and frameworks.
- Project, Program or Portfolio Management certifications such as PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, PMP, AIPM or similar.




- Experience working with performance reporting, budgeting, financial tracking or operational delivery frameworks.

Working at Unitywater

- Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays. Tell us what this looks like for you!
- Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
- Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country experience, study assistance, and access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
- Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.

About us

Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.

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Additional information

- Partner with leaders to shape strategic investments and business outcomes.
- Drive performance improvements across Unitywater's most critical initiatives.
- Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.

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📌 Senior Performance Analyst (Queensland)
🏢 Unitywater
📍 Queensland