Cost Manager, Portfolio Performance

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia ANZ Banking Group Full time

About the role

The Cost Centre of Excellence (‘Cost CoE’) is part of the Financial Performance Management team (‘FPM’) within Enterprise Finance and is responsible for supporting the Group CFO, the Deputy & Divisional CFOs and the business make optimal resource allocation decisions in relation to cost. To do this, the Cost CoE undertakes a range of performance management activities including planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis, which provide actionable insight and advice to its stakeholders. The Cost CoE establishes governance and performs financial control activities within the cost domain to ensure the integrity of the cost result.

Leading a team of Divisionally aligned Cost Experts with responsibility for all cost related activities at a Divisional level, including provision of accurate and timely financial information (Actuals, Performance Reporting, Outlook, Plan and provision of insightful cost related data and analytics), covering BAU costs and investments/projects.

Your responsibilities include driving continuous improvement of cost processes to extract efficiencies, ensuring the optimisation of controls, management of risks, points of friction and governance obligations are met on a continuous basis; drawing on Cost CoE process experts to build a first class capability in Finance, focusing on best practice cost management and consistency of implementation across all Divisions in collaboration with relevant GPOs.

**Your key responsibilities include**:
Manager of 2 team members who support both divisional financial performance management
Provide Divisional performance management reporting & analysis to ensure that stakeholders (Business & Div. Insights) are held to account for the Cost Management decisions they make
Analyse business performance and key business drivers to identify and communicate issues requiring action, while taking emerging trends and external market conditions into consideration
Manage the monthly financial close process for Group/Division/BU costs, including finalisation of actuals, PcP & driver based analytical review, Group/Division/BU consolidation activities, management reporting, and balance sheet reconciliation

**Role Location**: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008

**Role Type**: 12 months fixed term/secondment

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in the role, you will ideally bring the following:
A people-first approach. You are a team player who is motivated by the opportunity to bring people together to solve problems and take a personal interest in the growth and development of team members.
Curiosity and self-awareness. You are naturally inclined to ask ‘why?’ and ‘so what?’ and know how to challenge the status quo in a respectful manner
Strong verbal, visual and written communication skills to communicate initiatives, projects, ideas, or progress to senior stakeholders
Strong people and stakeholder management to support the effective delivery of projects/initiatives
Proficient in core tools including Excel/PPT, Sharepoint, PPM, HFM & PSGL with a willingness to learn new tools and techniques

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So, why join us?

As a Purpose-led bank, we’ve committed to delivering commercial and societal outcomes across environmental sustainability, financial wellbeing and household affordability. We deliver these sustainability commitments with our customers, in our business and across the communities where we operate.

But it’s not just our customers who’ll feel your impact. You’ll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you’ll have the resources and community you need to take the next big step in your career, towards even bigger things in the future.

We offer a range of benefits tailored to the countries in which we operate including Health and Wellbeing programs and flexible working arrangements.

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Job Posting End Date

27/02/2023, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)



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