Senior Manager, Business Unit Finance

As our Senior Manager Business Unit Finance you will lead and develop a high-performing finance team responsible for delivering insightful financial analysis forecasting and decision support across the organisation. You will play a critical role in ensuring leaders have the financial intelligence needed to make informed strategic decisions through rigorous planning and analysis strong governance and trusted business partnership.

This role owns the delivery of business and market-facing financial insights forecasting and performance analysis partnering closely with stakeholders to support decisions that impact organisational performance risk management cost outcomes and delivery capacity. You will provide commercial leadership and strategic financial guidance while driving accountability continuous improvement and best-practice financial management.

In addition you will lead and develop the Business Unit Finance team fostering a culture of excellence collaboration and professional growth while establishing clear standards frameworks and processes that support best-practice finance partnering across the organisation.

Responsibilities 

• Provide commercially grounded advice on revenue costs and prioritisation
• Lead near to medium-term planning and analysis for the company including annual budget forecasts risks and opportunity monitoring and performance commentary
• Lead a rolling 18-month forecast approach that connects business activity
• Ensure performance insights are clear timely and decision-useful for management ELT and Board reporting cycles
• Support development of overarching performance narrative and provide insight to material movements options and implications
• Work with Strategic Finance to ensure near medium and long-range planning remain aligned
• Drive integration of acquisitions into Group FP&A processes and one financial story
• Prepare and contribute to periodic financial reports including profit and loss accounts variance analysis and commentary
• Maintain discipline in results forecasts assumptions risks and opportunities and data quality
• Ensure appropriate governance over accruals provisions cost centre structures planning assumptions and material forecast changes
• Partner with FP&A Centre of Excellence to improve templates models cadence automation and efficiency
• Support implementation of Workday ERP

Qualifications :

Essential:

• 10 years of experience in FP&A or commercial finance.
• 5 years leading a finance partnering team in a complex organisation
• Excellent knowledge of accounting and financial principles and practices
• Excellent knowledge of budgeting forecasting and scenario/risk analysis
• Strong financial modelling and management reporting experience
• Proven ability to influence C-suite executives and senior business leaders using commercial insight and clear financial advice
• Advanced skills with Excel and other MS products.

Desirable

• Payments banking financial services or APRA-regulated environment
• Experience with reporting & planning systems such as Workday TM1
• Experience supporting integration transformation or operating model change 

Additional Information :

Why Cuscal 

At Cuscal youll find a strong successful company thats reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.   

Here youll deliver ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australias financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves. Youll innovate alongside skilled smart connected teams. And youll build an impressive fulfilling career that continues to grow.   

Youll also enjoy a range of benefits including: 

• Work in a hybrid model that supports your lifestyle and goals 

• We celebrate success: Our IGNITE program recognises individual and team achievements. 

• Wellbeing focus: We support your physical mental and financial health with holistic initiatives and access to discounts via Cuscal Advantage.  

Join us and reimagine the future:

If this role excites you wed love to explore your potential and vision for the future. 

For further information about this role please contact Nicola Liney at

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. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time