Commercial Finance Business Partner

16 hours ago


Melbourne, Australia Online Education Services Full time

**About OES**
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Online Education Services (OES), part of the Seek Growth Fund, is a leader in online education, helping universities elevate student experiences in a digital era. With a proven collaboration process with universities, we have cultivated several transformative and long-lasting partnerships.

Our dynamic global team shares a vision to transform the student experience through innovation and collaboration. OES people are leaders in their respective fields, ensuring best practice strategic thinking is delivered in every element of our partnerships.

When you work at OES, you’re **empowered to impact**.

**The Opportunity**
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Finance makes it easier for us to win together as a business. Our team works side-by-side with every other team to help bring commercial thinking into what they do and make decisions that support our strategic and commercial objectives.

The Commercial Finance Business Partner role is a great opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to support growth and delivery of efficiencies in our core Education Partnership business unit across Australia and the UK. The primary purpose of this role is to be the trusted commercial partner for business stakeholders and executive team members in delivering to our strategic partnerships’ objectives.

The role will encompass business partnering, financial modelling/analysis and working collaboratively with the broader business stakeholders and broader finance team on a number of initiatives. The acquired deep knowledge on commercial performance will also support the monthly forecast and annual business planning process.

This is a proactive, commercial and strategic focused role and your day to day will include:

- Working collaboratively with Marketing, Sales and Student Insights team in optimising decisions across the new student acquisition journey
- Undertaking financial modelling/analysis to support strategic decisions and new business opportunities (organic or M&A)
- Supporting broader stakeholders in formulating business cases
- Working with key stakeholders to create short and longer term financial forecasts for the Education Partnerships business unit which feed into the monthly forecast and annual business planning process
- Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in current processes
- Building deeper commercial knowledge and capability through the business
- Coaching and mentoring other junior members in the team and support building a high performing, supportive and collaborative culture

This role will report to an experienced Commercial Finance Manager and suit a senior Commercial Finance Business Partner/Junior Commercial Manager who looks for a breadth of commercial exposure with a view that they will take on people management over time.

**About You**
**To be successful in this role you will have:

- Strong communication skills and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work in a high performing team and also autonomously manage own workload
- Strong financial and business development modelling skills (intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills)
- Ability to work in a fluid environment and manage competing priorities
- Experience of developing long terms plans and business cases
- Desire to grow and develop team
- Experience in the Education sector would be viewed positively
- Undergraduate degree (ideally Finance/Accounting/Commerce) and either part or fully qualified CA or CPA
- 3-5 years experience in commercial finance business partnering role

**What’s in it for you?**
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Along with joining a passionate, energetic and highly skilled team, this role will allow you to gain exposure to many growth and development opportunities. OES offers a hybrid, flexible approach to work, where we work 2-3 days from our state-of-the-art Cremorne office, and the rest from home (or wherever you choose). Breakfast, snacks, table tennis, Nintendo Switch are all available in the office, as well as an in-house massage therapist and weekly staff drinks. Ultimately, you will be joining a values-driven, collaborative business where your creativity and innovation will be nurtured and celebrated.

If you are a self-started with strong desire to build long term value and passion to make a positive impact we would love to hear from you.



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