Senior Corporate Strategy Manager

Company Description

Empower Australia’s Payments Future with Cuscal

At Cuscal, your skills drive change and make a real impact. Whether you’re supporting our clients’ customers in our Fraud Operations Contact Centre or delivering innovative solutions in Product Delivery, your contribution helps shape the payments industry’s future.

Join a team that values collaboration, innovation and excellence. With a focus on professional growth and flexibility, Cuscal is where you can thrive.

Forward with Cuscal.

Your Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy to join our Client, Growth & Strategy team and play a key role in shaping Cuscal’s future.

This is a high-impact, highly visible role working closely with the Head of Strategy and Executive Leadership Team to define and deliver Cuscal’s corporate strategy, growth agenda, and major strategic initiatives.

You’ll combine sharp strategic thinking with hands-on execution, helping drive decisions at the highest level while ensuring initiatives deliver real outcomes across the business.

Corporate Strategy

• Shape and deliver Cuscal’s corporate strategy and multi-year growth roadmap
• Partner with the ELT to support strategic decision-making, planning cycles, and Board engagement
• Translate strategy into clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and execution plans

Partnerships & M&A

• Identify and assess partnerships, acquisitions, and growth opportunities aligned to Cuscal’s strategy
• Lead or support end-to-end transaction activity, including business cases, due diligence, and integration planning
• Provide rigorous strategic and commercial analysis to inform investment decisions

Strategic Initiatives & Execution

• Drive enterprise-wide strategic initiatives from concept through to delivery
• Lead the Quarterly Business Review process to track performance, risks, and outcomes
• Create clear, compelling executive narratives and materials that influence and align stakeholders

Qualifications

What you'll bring

You’re a commercially minded strategy professional who thrives in high-impact environments, comfortable shaping direction at the executive level while rolling up your sleeves to drive outcomes. You bring a balance of strategic thinking, analytical rigour, and practical delivery, and you build credibility through sound judgement, strong relationships, and follow-through.

• 7+ years’ experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, corporate development, or investment banking
• Experience supporting or leading major strategic transactions, including M&A, partnerships, alliances, or large commercial deals
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to assess opportunities and translate analysis into clear recommendations
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, with the ability to create high-quality, executive-ready materials
• Excellent written communication skills, including Board papers, investment cases, and strategy documents
• High level of comfort working with data, financial analysis, and commercial models

Additional Information

Why Cuscal?

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.

Here, you’ll deliver or support interesting, ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves.

You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams.

And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow.

You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• Recognition and growth: Celebrate achievements through IGNITE and grow with tailored development opportunities.
• Wellbeing focus: Access initiatives supporting physical, mental, and financial health, plus discounts via ‘Cuscal Advantage.’
• Diversity and inclusion: Join a workplace that values different perspectives and flexible work arrangements.

Join us and reimagine the future

Ready to make an impact? Click APPLY to join Cuscal today.

If you’re excited about this opportunity, we’d love to explore how you can contribute to our vision for the future. Screening and interviews may occur before the job ad closing date, so don’t wait - apply now.

Cuscal is an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment and a positive, barrier-free recruitment process.

We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with a disability, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.

Note: Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms.