Manager, Commercial Finance

Your Impact

As the Commercial Finance Manager, based in Sydney, reporting to the Associate Director, Commercial Finance and working closely with the rest of the Finance team, you will make your mark in a number of ways. This is an evolving function looking to mature quickly meaning there’s broad scope to drive and shape what we deliver as a team:

• Build financial dashboards and reporting suites to deliver accurate, timely insights to senior leaders and drive fact based, data driven decisions.
• Help lead the development of budgets and forecasts and subsequent management and analysis of performance against those forecasts.
• Challenge existing reporting and processes to be efficient, effective and scalable (e.g. through automation) with a focus on long term, sustainable solutions
• Lead the implementation of new planning and forecasting tools and active involvement in the evolution of the Commercial Finance function.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders to deliver insightful cost reporting, support financial decisions, and present meaningful recommendations.

What You'll Do

1.  Drive development of dashboard reporting of key financials’, KPI’s and other metrics to help key stakeholders monitor financial performance and make informed decisions
2. Continuous improvement of existing finance and business processes to drive efficiency and to achieve better outcome
3. Analyse financial performance against budgets and forecasts, management reporting and providing meaningful insights to senior management.
4. Prepare targeted analysis or “deep dives” into different areas of the business to increase transparency and identify insights into performance.
5. Support strategic initiatives and help drive business growth and maturity.
6.  Key input to the annual budgeting process and quarterly reforecasts including: 
   a)    Gathering requirements and inputs from cost base owners and Executives
   b)    Collaborate with various departments to ensure alignment of financial and strategic goals. 
   c)    Analyse submissions to report on variances, using a finance lens to validate and interpret operational and corporate data.
7.  Lead partnering with stakeholders in the business: 
   a)    help them understand their cost base and progress against budget through insightful reporting
   b)    support and challenge them in financial decision making
   c)    proactively analyse the cost base and present insights including the “So What?”
8.  Support other finance functions (Treasury and Corporate Development) in meeting their obligations to lenders and investors e.g. project reporting and validation of business case assumptions
9.  Benefit from high exposure to senior leadership including the CEO and CFO

What You'll Bring 

• CA, CIMA or CPA qualified.
• 10+ years of experience in Commercial Finance / FP&A, or a similar planning/ analytical function
• Experienced in aggregating and analysing financial data sets and building insightful visualisation dashboards in Power BI or similar applications.
• Strong analytical mind-set and proficiency in financial forecasting through Excel based financial modelling and / or financial planning software .
• Ability to readily challenge and seek validation of the reasonableness of assumptions and inputs and be confident in asking “Why?” or “What-if?”
• Able to produce high quality and clear reports and analysis; tailoring the detail/content for the situation and audience and articulating the story behind the numbers
• Practical and commercial; and hold yourself accountable to take projects through to completion
• Continuous improvement approach with the skills to develop systems and processes that are more efficient and effective and a general desire to innovate.
• Strong communicator able to extract and understand requirements from key partners and package a solution; building their trust by managing expectations and delivering on promises