Responsibilities
- Contribute to the setup of the budget and forecasts and will subsequently be responsible for analysing the operational performance of key cost drivers against budgets and forecasts.
- Support the Commercial Finance Manager in engaging with senior leadership teams to prepare and execute to budget/forecast.
- Own the analysis of the key cost drivers: Capture costs – Volume, Mix and Rate analysis, Cloud computing costs, Licence/subscription costs, Headcount costs
- Provide timely analysis and updates to the various stakeholders during the budget/forecast process
- Review and validate month-end accruals with the Financial Control team.
- Ensure consistency of data across all systems used to prepare internal analysis
- Prepare timely P&L commentary & internal analysis for the group FP&A team during month-end and the budget/forecast processes.
- Develop and maintain detailed financial models in excel or Business Intelligence tool (Looker) using large data sets.
- Provide ad-hoc modelling assistance for project business cases, insights and recommendations where required
- Manage Systems and Processes
- Develop reports in Adaptive (CPM), Looker (BI) and Excel to streamline stakeholder reporting.
- Pursue opportunities to improve month-end processing through better utilisation of systems (Looker, Netsuite (ERP), Adaptive, Excel)
- Drive improvements in reporting, including accessibility of reports and information.
Requirements
- 2-5 years of previous experience in the finance & accounting industry
- Tertiary qualifications in accounting/business/commerce
- Strong stakeholder management skills with experience managing multiple stakeholders at all levels from staff to Directors to senior leadership simultaneously.
- Strong data analysis, modelling and problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to make the complex simple
- Ability to adapt to shifting business requirements and priorities
- Advanced Excel skills manipulating large data sets.
- Ability to learn new systems such as Looker, Adaptive and Netsuite quickly.
Nice to Have
- Professional qualification CA or CPA
Benefits
- Quarterly wellbeing day off - Four additional days off a year as your "YOU" days
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Team Hackathons and Pitch-fests
- Wellbeing and technology allowance
- Annual flu vaccinations
- Nearmap subscription (of course!)
- Stocked kitchen with access to all the sustenance you need
- In-office Lunch every Tuesday and Thursday at our Sydney CBD office
- Showers available for anyone cycling to work or lunchtime gym-goers!
Additional Information
- Successful candidate must have full working rights to work in Australia.
