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Reporting and governance lead

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Posted: 5 March
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Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.

Work with world leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.

We're a 'Family Friendly' certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers

Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world's toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities
* The Reporting & Governance Lead is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and continuously improving the reporting ecosystem and governance framework that ensures transparency, compliance, auditability, and performance accountability across the sustainment program.
* The role provides leadership across performance reporting, data integrity, governance forums, ASDEFCON‐mandated reporting, decision‐tracking, backlog governance, and Secretariat functions for program oversight bodies.
* Own and operate the day-to-day governance framework, ensuring alignment with ASDEFCON controls, contractual requirements and mandated governance pathways
* Establish, manage and coordinate structured governance forums and calendars, including agendas, minutes, actions, decisions and escalation processes
* Lead the design and delivery of program reporting across all domains, owning CDRL-aligned deliverables and ensuring accuracy, timeliness and auditability
* Provide governance insight through performance reporting, trend analysis, risk identification and executive-level commentary
* Maintain governance oversight of compliance, documentation quality, backlogs, gaps, exemptions and contract change recommendations across the program lifecycle
* Build strong relationships and coordinate across engineering, security, sustainment and subcontractor teams to ensure consistent, contract-aligned governance execution
What You'll Bring to Make An Impact
* Proven governance, reporting or PMO leadership experience within complex ICT programs or service environments
* Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret multi-source performance data and translate insights into executive-level reporting
* Demonstrated experience coordinating senior governance forums, including preparation of agendas, papers, minutes, registers and decision logs
* Working knowledge of regulated compliance environments (e.g. ASDEFCON, ISM, risk and performance management frameworks)
* Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams across multi-vendor and multidisciplinary environments
* Highly organised, resilient and detail-focused, with a commitment to transparency, accuracy and contractual compliance
* Don't worry if you don't tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We're most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.
* This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active TSPV Clearance, accompanied by the ability to be successful for a DISA/OSA.
Diversity, Inclusion and Next Steps

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network,Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Next Steps

To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.

Recruitment process - 1 virtual interview or 1 face to face, a psychometric test & background checks.

Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team if you'd like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.

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