Manager, Group Planning and Forecasting

3 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia QBE Insurance Group Limited Full time

Manager, Group Planning and Forecasting

**Primary Details**
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee
- **Location: Sydney**:

- **Type: Permanent, full time**

**The opportunity**
- Opportunity to work for a leading Global Insurer.
- A great opportunity for a manager to join QBE's Group Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team.

**Your new role**

This non-traditional, strategic role will be supporting the Head of Group Planning to manage and lead planning, forecasting and strategic initiatives across the business.

Partnering and with divisional leaders, you will gather financial information in an accurate and timely manner, measuring financial performance across the business, identifying areas of improvement, and presenting findings to senior management including the Group CFO and CEO, GEC and the Board to support effective decision making by the wider business.

You will also:

- Actively contribute to the implementation of the QBE Group Finance Strategy
- Assist with the advancing and embedding of finance frameworks
- Build a foundation of trust and advisory with divisional leaders to ensure alignment with the Group Portfolio Optimisation
- Support with quarterly and annual forecasting, planning and budgeting for Group, identifying and driving improvements and acceptable outcome along the way
- Maintain a productive working relationship between Group teams and play an active role in cultivating an Enterprise mindset with Divisional teams
- Develop and maintain Group Planning & Forecasting Requirement documents and update planning models as required

**About you**

To be successful as the Manager, Group Planning and Forecasting you will have extensive experience within **accounting, actuarial, investment management or banking roles**, ideally in the insurance or financial services industry.

You will also have;
- Relevant tertiary degree in accounting, finance, actuarial or business, with experience working in the re-insurance sector highly desirable
- Proven experience with FP&A, ideally in a managerial role
- Proven experience with coaching, mentoring and developing a team
- Commercially aware and financially astute mindset
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability with an ability to interpret data and work systematically through complex matters and positively influence outcomes
- Financial modelling experience preferred but not essential
- Project management experience preferred but not essential

**About QBE**

We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE - let's make it happen Talk to us about flexible working.

**Benefits**

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

**Rewards & Recognition**

We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Gold Employer status for 4 years in a row 2019 - 2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Family First accredited employer since 2021

**and let's make it happen**

Role opening date: 04/06



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