Strategic Financial Analyst

7 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Xero Full time

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a global finance function during a major growth phase.

This role is pivotal in providing support to deliver leading financial, planning and analysis across the business. You will partner closely with the cross functional teams and senior leaders to provide valuable insights and recommendations. You will support the development and execution of financial strategies that align with our company's goals and objectives.

Your expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, and strategic planning will be critical in driving our financial performance.

You will be required to build strong relationships and communicate analysis and projection of information to many different levels and people throughout the company.

To be successful in this role you will have had experience in:
**Financial Planning and Analysis**: Experience supporting long-term financial planning processes, providing insights into revenue growth, cost management, and investment decisions.

**Financial Modeling**: Be able to create and maintain financial models to assess potential scenarios, risks, and opportunities, and support strategic decision-making.

**Capital Allocation**:Experience in supporting the evaluation and optimization of capital allocation strategies, including investment in new initiatives, acquisitions, and capital expenditures

**Financial Strategy**: Ability to contribute to the development and communication of the company's financial strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives

**Data Insights**:Ability to leverage a range of tools and technology to deliver high quality data and insightful reporting across the Finance team and across the wider business that drives visibility, understanding and commercial outcomes.

**You will bring with you..**:

- 2-4 years experience in a similar role.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Master's degree or professional certifications (e.g., CA, CFA).
- Strong commercial acumen. SaaS experience a plus.
- The ability to bring positivity and great team collaboration is just as important

If this sounds like something that interests you we would be delighted to hear from you. In your covering letter please outline why this role and Xero interests you.

**Why Xero?**
- Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

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