Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

**Primary Details**
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee
- Elevate your career with a leading insurer
- Permanent, Full time
- Sydney, New South Wales
- Hybrid role: Happy to talk flexible working

**The Opportunity**

An exciting opportunity to join our AusPac Financial Planning team, working for the Head of Finance - Consumer & Claims where you'll play a critical role in partnering with the business to make strategic financial decisions, supporting growth and operational efficiency.

**Your new role**

Your responsibilities will include financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis, providing insights to the business for strategic decision making. Effective interaction with senior stakeholders to provide recommendations and challenge, whilst navigating a complex environment.

Key accountabilities:

- Analyse financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities, providing actionable insights to senior management, driving profitable and sustainable growth.
- Scope, implement and deliver budget/forecasts as per agreed timeframes, providing appropriate challenge, to ensure robust financial plans linked to strategy.
- Financial adviser to business leaders/stakeholders, including evaluation of commercial opportunities, tenders and external negotiation materials with relevance to viability, profitability and risk.
- Present findings, insights, and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders to inform decision-making.
- Foster productive working relationships with senior business leaders, FP&A teams and across the organisation, driving mutually beneficial outcomes.
- A team player, self motivated to align with business strategy and accountability to meet stakeholder expectations, whilst maintaining high performance.

**About you**
- Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen with the ability to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable commercial or strategic insights.
- Solid interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders at all levels.
- Proven stakeholder management experience and the ability to negotiate, persuade and influence.
- Detailed understanding of FP&A and business process, strategic planning, whilst managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge of Financial systems, budgeting and planning, and reporting technologies and tools.

**About QBE**

We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE - let's make it happen

**Benefits**

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

**Rewards & Recognition**

We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2023 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Family First accredited employer since 2021

**and let's make it happen**

**Skills**:
Analytical Thinking, Communication, Critical Thinking, Financial Data Reporting, Fin