Senior Finance Manager, Group Performance

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Challenger Full time

Challenger Limited is a leading investment management firm managing a significant portfolio of assets. As a Senior Finance Manager in our Group Performance & Analytics Team, you will play a key role in overseeing and managing all financial reporting and analysis for our Customer Division.

This is a hands-on business partnering role where you will provide insightful management reporting, budgeting, and planning, as well as financial and commercial analysis. You will also take the lead on driving the design and implementation of a new Customer data and reporting strategy, collaborating across Customer, Finance, and Technology.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the monthly Challenger sales result and conducting analysis across the Challenger Life sales and Funds Management flows and FUM results.
  • Preparing monthly financial packs and Board papers reporting to senior stakeholders within tight timeframes.
  • Preparing quarterly ASX FUM, half-year end, and year-end analyst pack metrics, various market disclosures, and analysis.
  • Review and redesign of Customer reporting on the Power BI platform.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

  • Collaborating across Finance and the Business to develop the Life sales and FM flows budget and 3-year plan and prepare presentations for senior management.
  • Preparing and maintaining the sales budget and rolling forecast within Anaplan (a cloud-based planning platform).
  • Supporting Group BP&A to coordinate and consolidate Group budgets and maintaining rolling forecasts.

Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management:

  • Building strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the Customer Chief Executive and the Management Team, and broadly across Finance, HR, Life, and Funds Management Divisions.
  • Presenting results and analysis to key stakeholders, including the Customer Chief Executive, Group CFO, as well as business unit owners and senior finance personnel.
  • Proactively identifying and driving opportunities for efficiencies and simplification.

Sales Incentive Program:

  • Understanding and maintaining the sales incentive program.
  • Preparing sales incentive budget based on the annual sales budget targets.
  • Preparing quarterly reporting on tracking the Distribution team's progress on the sales targets and forecasting expected payout from the sales incentive program.

Requirements:

The successful candidate will be an experienced finance professional with strong commercial awareness, business partnering, and financial analysis expertise.

You will be organised, dynamic, a strong communicator, and an accounting all-rounder who has a proactive approach and customer-centric partnering approach.

Your communication and interpersonal skills will be second to none – you're a natural collaborator, influencer, and partner to senior stakeholders.

You will need to have excellent technical accounting knowledge with 5+ years post-qualification (CA or equivalent accounting qualification) experience in a senior accounting capacity ideally from within financial services and/or an ASX-listed environment.

As well as:

  • Strong understanding of business and financial drivers and impact of possible outcomes.
  • Demonstrable commercial acumen with the ability to provide timely and insightful analytics to the broader business.
  • Strong ability in conveying complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
  • Understands and utilises business models, strategic analysis, and business planning.
  • Good experience in MS Excel and other MIS operating systems, including forecasting tools.

Desirable Skills:

  • Experience with Anaplan, Workiva, PowerBI, Workday.
  • Strong Financial Modelling experience.

About Challenger:

Challenger is a leading investment management firm managing a significant portfolio of assets. We are committed to providing our customers with financial security for a better retirement.

We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences, can contribute and succeed.

At Challenger, we value inclusion and diversity of thought, promote flexible working practices, and are proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We believe in bringing your authentic self and a belonging in our culture. We are proud to participate in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) as a national benchmark on LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and best practice in Australia.

We offer the opportunity for a broad career experience and value people who are inquisitive and rigorous and are driven to make a difference.

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