Senior Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Integral Senior Living Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Financial Strategist to join our team as an integral member of the supported business senior leadership team. As a Financial Strategist, you will play a critical role in identifying, planning, and meeting the finance needs of the business to improve business performance.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Consolidate, critically review, and provide technical advice and guidance on periodic financial results and forecasts to identify and monitor risks, opportunities, and efficiencies to minimize the financial and legal impact on the business area.
  2. Provide robust professional recommendations and financial guidance on accounting guidelines and standards to enable the business to be financially and legally compliant.
  3. Provide technical and professional oversight of the periodic accounts, relevant analysis, and preparation of business plans and budgets to enable the business to make effective decisions.
  4. Develop, understand, and influence the cost and income drivers relevant to the business area to deliver the yearly business plan and manage to the overall settlement by effective decision making.
  5. Influence, coach, and challenge senior budget holders in understanding the impact of their period results and forecasts against budgets in order to manage their business more effectively and manage within budgeting limits.
  6. Proactively challenge budget holders' plans and budget submissions to understand the overall plan, providing advice and new initiatives to save costs and be more efficient as an organization.
  7. Drive, adapt, and deliver key KPIs and deliverables for the function, highlighting any significant issues and trends with financial and other business results to aid decision makers to make efficiencies.
  8. Lead in budget holder key meetings on financial performance to provide professional financial advice and guidance to drive business decisions, minimize risk, and deliver good corporate governance.
  9. Develop, drive, and implement investment decisions and new business activities, working collaboratively with senior leaders to explore new opportunities and drive business performance.
Requirements
  • Membership (or working towards membership) of a relevant accounting body (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW) or equivalent experience.
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills at all levels, including customers, 3rd party representatives, other business and functional leaders, and key support personnel.
  • Successful relevant experience working in a complex financial environment, including demonstrable experience in managing business risks, professional financial control, and forward planning.
  • Demonstrable record of budget management, governance, and ability to understand and interpret commercial and financial landscapes (budgets, forecasts, actual status).
  • Significant experience in managing ambiguity in a financial environment with strong evaluation and decision-making skills.
  • Excellent technical financial and accounting knowledge and application of that knowledge in a complex and commercial environment.
  • Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, for example, accounting and finance, business management, or equivalent demonstrable experience in finance.
Desirable
  • Full membership of relevant postgraduate professional body (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW).
  • Experience of Oracle-based systems.
  • Substantial experience within multiple finance disciplines.
  • Knowledge and technical expertise of Government accounting and relevant financial governance.
  • Understanding of project management principles and experience of managing complex projects to successful conclusion.


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