The Role: 12-month fixed-term contract (immediate start required)
Reporting to the Finance Leadership team, you will act as a trusted adviser to the EGMs of two key business units, supporting the delivery of business plans through high-quality financial insight, analysis, and decision support.
You will take ownership of the P&L, lead budgeting and forecasting, and provide performance analysis in a complex, regulated environment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide strategic financial advice and commercial insight
- Deliver insightful performance reporting and analysis
- Lead the monthly close process, including BAU and project spend
- Develop annual budgets and regular forecasts for the businesses and direct expense base
- Provide robust financial analysis, proactively identifying performance issues and opportunities
- Ensure project forecasts, expense allocations and financial logic are transparent and well governed
- Deliver financial modelling and advice for projects and business cases
- Drive continuous improvement and automation of finance and analytics processes (onshore and offshore)
- Lead, mentor and coach a team of 8 finance professionals
- Contribute to understanding of the external environment, including benchmarking against competitors
About You: You are a commercially minded senior finance leader with extensive experience gained in either insurance, banking, or wealth management, and a proven ability to partner at an executive level.
You will bring:
- CA or CPA qualification
- Significant experience within a medium to large financial services organisation
- Industry background - Insurance industry experience preferred. Banking or wealth management industry expertise is also highly regarded
- Strong background in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering
- Experience operating within a regulated environment
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including managing and developing teams
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change
- Track record of improving financial reporting, planning or analytics capability
For a confidential chat about this role, please contact Stuart Soper on 02 8227 9200 or follow the link to apply.
