Cost Specialist

5 months ago


Docklands, Australia ANZ Banking Group Full time

**Req ID**: 69262
**Department**: FPM - Cost CoE
**Division**: Enterprise Finance
**Location**: Docklands
About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

As a Cost Specialist in our team, you’ll play a key role in helping to draw on competencies from all COPEs to form a well-rounded finance professional who is involved in end to end cost work.

Working as part of a team of Cost Experts with responsibility for all cost related activities within Technology, including provision of accurate and timely financial information (Actuals, Performance Reporting, Outlook, Plan and provision of insightful cost related data and analytics).

You will primarily be Technology Division aligned; and may have generalist Finance skills with BU level responsibilities; or be a specialist for specific cost related processes where a high degree of process and accounting knowledge is required.

As a Technology aligned Cost Expert you will be co-located with Technology Business Partners and the Divisional Performance Management team forming close relationships with our peers to deliver a seamless service proposition for your stakeholders. In some cases, you may be required to build and maintain relationships with Business stakeholders in collaboration with Divisional Insight Business Partners.

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

**Role Type**: Permanent, Full-time

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

What will your day look like?

**As a Cost Specialist, your key accountabilities 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 an 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.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
Ensure management and statutory reporting obligations for cost are adequately met

Manage the monthly financial close process for Group Technology costs, including finalisation of actuals, PcP & driver based analytical review, Group/Division/BU consolidation activities, management reporting, and balance sheet reconciliations

Contribute to and oversee the accurate recording of Divisional and BU investment/project financials and E2E project lifecycle in line with accounting policy

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with peers and key stakeholders within FPM and GPO communities

Be a positive influence and an integral part of the team including working with the Hub as "one team"

Be an advocate for change, and promote ‘one way of doing things’ by adopting and contributing to the development of BI tools, while standardising processes to help build a better ANZ Finance function

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?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

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, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.



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