Operations Transformation Lead, Financial

About the role
Functional strategy development for Decision Support function
Lead execution of ongoing transformation of the function
Significant stakeholder engagement & influence of Finance leadership

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

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

The Finance function drives financial performance for the enterprise by shaping strategy, allocating resources and ensuring decisions are based on facts. The function is responsible for providing insights into business performance and strategic direction, various management, regulatory and statutory reporting requirements as well as management of ANZ’s financial processes, technologies and governance.

Financial Performance Management (FPM - a team of ~100) forms part of the Finance function and is responsible for supporting the Group CFO, the Deputy and Divisional CFOs and the business in setting strategic direction and driving financial performance. Furthermore, FPM drives continual process improvement by leveraging its scale and ‘one way of doing things’ across its Group and divisionally aligned teams, including the Cost Centre of Excellence (‘Cost COE’); operating a common strategy spanning processes, data & analytics, systems & tools and people.

For the past two years, FPM has undergone a transformation which has included changes to its operating model and key processes. This work continues and the next phase of the transformation will also see investment in data & systems to further transform the function.

What will your day look like

On behalf of the Head of FPM, the Ops & Transformation Lead is responsible for development of the functional strategy and execution & oversight of the change program. This includes monitoring metrics / KPIs and embedding governance practices to ensure delivery of the strategy; and managing a small team of change resources tasked with responsibility for execution of the strategy. It is required to work with and influence a wide range of stakeholders within Finance (CFO group, FPM divisional heads), while also canvassing and supporting business stakeholder needs.
In addition, the role supports a small number of operational areas on behalf of the function (e.g. membership of broader Finance forums linked to people strategies).

What will you bring?

Whether your background is in a business role, Financial Control, FP&A, Business Partnering, Project Accounting, Change Management - these will be included in your toolkit or areas where you wish to grow & develop further:

- Strategy Development - adept at developing & executing functional strategy
- Continuous/Process improvement - responsible for supporting continuous improvement initiatives across a Finance function, with a background in process optimisation (e.g. LEAN / Six Sigma)
- Portfolio Delivery - established, planned, managed and evaluated projects end to end
- Stakeholder Management - engaged people & stakeholders to support the effective delivery of projects/initiatives
- Finance processing - understand Finance decision support processes (analysis, planning etc)
- Strategic thinking - designing and leading a change strategy
- Systems & tools - familiarity with data concepts, data models, performance management information automation

**In addition, you bring**:

- 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.
- Demonstrated capability to influence senior executives and driving business performance through providing strategic and commercial advice.

So, why join us?

ANZ is a great place to grow. We know our people look to their leaders to understand what is and isn’t valued.

Developing a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture. It means we actively encourage people to try new things so we can improve. With effort, we can all learn and grow.

We ask our leaders to practice daily leadership behaviours - things like connecting with empathy, empowering people, growing people selflessly, being curious and creating shared clarity. These are the leadership behaviours we need to transform ANZ. We support our leaders with tools, tips and online coaching.

Supporting the wellbeing of our people is core at ANZ which is why we cherish the people-first culture we are famous for and why the Australian Financial Review rated us the number 1 place to work in the banking and finance industry for 2021.

We work flexibly at ANZ and encourage you to talk to us about how this role can be flexible for you. Some of the work we do can be done from home, and some from an ANZ workplace - it’s all about what works for your team, and above all else, our customers

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