Finance Analyst

Finance Analyst

**Date**:31 Oct 2024**Location**:North Sydney, NSW, AU, 2060**Company**:Ventia**What's on offer**:

- Join one of the largest essential service providers in Australia and New Zealand.
- Split your time in our beautiful North Sydney head office and work from home.
- Full time permanent role with a respected stable ASX listed organisation with considerable room for career progression and development.
- Joining the Ventia team you will become part of our Finance Academy initiative. This program brings together all Finance professionals across the business to partake in opportunities for continuous learning and training, mentoring programs, networking and social events aimed at promoting career development and recognition.

**About the role**:

- Join Ventia as our Finance Analyst Digital Services. In this position you will be responsible for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis of IT expenses and operational costs.- Your expertise in commercial and financial management combined with a deep understanding of the IT Operations will enable you to optimise resource allocation, drive cost efficiencies across the business and contribute to strategic decision-making.- A fantastic opportunity for a confident finance professional to grow their career.**What you’ll be doing**:

- Facilitate strong business relationships with Digital Services, Procurement and Finance teams, fostering collaboration and understanding of financial requirements to create financial dashboard to support their needs.
- Collaborate with the IT leadership and Group Finance to develop, implement, and manage IT budgets, ensuring alignment with overall organisational objectives. Monitor variances, identify potential risks, and propose appropriate cost-saving measures.
- Conduct detailed financial analysis to provide insights into IT spending, trends, cost drivers and performance metrics. Create consistent reports, dashboards and presentations to CIO IT leadership to support informed decision making.
- Monitor and track IT expenses and operational costs (OPEX). Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data and month end reporting, provide quality insight into factors influencing performance (actual v budget / forecast), maintain compliance with accounting standards and organisational guidelines.
- Assist in development of a technology business management framework to help drive cost and value transparency to the business, including attribution of IT costs into cost pools, IT towers and service delivery to all stakeholders.
- Analysis & insights into performance, including benchmarking, comparisons etc to drive continual improvement, identifying areas for further cost savings and efficiency improvements. Implement Power BI reporting where identified.

**About you**:

- Relevant degree qualification in Accounting/Finance. CA or CPA qualified.
- Knowledge and experience in understanding financial governance models and the delivery of reporting for IT Digital Services and Finance Leadership team.
- Excellent financial, planning and analysis knowledge able to recommend commercially astute decision based insights.
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to present and influence senior stakeholders.
- Strategic thinker with understanding of key business drivers - understanding of how product usage impacts the underlying performance of the business.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
- SAP experience would be held in high regard.

**About Ventia**:

- Ventia is a leading infrastructure services company, operating across Australia and New Zealand. Our clients are the owners and operators of assets that are critical to our local communities. No one else does exactly what we do in the way we do it. Making infrastructure work for our communities is at the heart of who we are and it's what unites and excites us.**Diversity**:

- Ventia is enriched by the diverse experiences, talents, and cultures that our people bring to the organisation, while celebrating and respecting the communities we operate in. We are committed to providing a safe and positive environment that provides equal opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, Women, Veterans and spouses and people with disabilities.**How to apply**:
- Position Reference Number: 160535