Finance Business Partner

**Join us and let’s make a bigger difference together.**

It’s an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity - we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to **Help People to Thrive**.

**Your New Role**:
**Permanent Full Time Opportunity** - The primary objective of this role is to support the achievement of Australian Unity’s vision together with ensuring effective business partnering, and the provision of meaningful financial insights relating to the operations of Australian Unity’s Home Health business.

**Your New Role Looks Like This**:

- Support stakeholders within the Business Unit in the successful delivery of care to our customers.
- Partner with stakeholders on the management of working capital (Receivables).
- Provision of support for the requirements of Group Finance functions, including: Month-end management, Results commentary, risks and opportunities registers, Monthly and quarterly forecasting comprising Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cashflows & Treasury and Liquidity Management
- Strategic finance partnering across the HH Business Units to support revenue initiatives, manage costs, develop analysis, and provide commercial finance support.
- Assistance with the annual strategic planning processes of budgets, forecasts and consolidated future periods budgets across the business unit(s).
- Reporting of actual performance against budget, forecast and longer-term strategic plan initiatives.
- Assist the GM of Finance Home Health on strategic projects
- Work collaboratively with the AU Group Finance team to ensure accuracy and reliability in all financial information produced from the shared services team.
- Participation in monthly management meetings in the provision of financial performance reviews and presentations.
- Development & analysis of financial outcomes of operationally focused business plans.
- Provision of commercial and financial support to General Managers, Regional Managers and Branch Managers on the development of detailed budgets and forecasts.
- Analyse and understand market data to facilitate discussions on current conditions and potential economic changes and future trends.
- Work collaboratively with marketing, talent acquisition, technology, procurement, and strategic projects to manage budgets and ensure business unit enablement.

**About You**:

- Membership of a recognised accounting body is mandatory (CPA or CA qualified).
- 3+years relevant commercial finance experience with strong business partnering experience involved with branch operations/networks.
- Proven success in operationally oriented analytical roles.
- Natural desire to seek continuous improvement and thinking innovatively.
- Collaborative style, proactive and a bias for making things happen.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to cultivate productive and effective business partnering relationships.
- Ambition and drive to achieve results and time constraints and conflicting priorities.
- Ability to work methodically and with attention to detail. Ability to work autonomously as well as in a team environment.

**Your Benefits**:
You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

- Competitive Remuneration and Incentive Program
- A range of attractive product and service discounts from Australian Unity’s Retail and Wealth Management portfolio - including health insurance and banking products
- Supported Learning and Career Development program
- Flexible Working Arrangements including Work-From-Home days with a real work-life balance
- Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform
- Additional paid Wellbeing and Community Volunteer Days yearly

**What Makes Us, Us**

Putting people first is not just something we say, it's what we do. We care for our people so they can care for themselves and our customers. We stay true to our values (Bold, Warm, Honest), we work hard because it matters and we work well together - collaborating, encouraging and even managing to have some fun.

At Australian Unity we do the right thing and we expect the same from others. Being a member-owned company, means we're focused on our members and customers, not shareholder returns. Our purpose to Help People to Thrive, drives us to make a real difference, every day, big and small. We are passionate about improving the wellbeing of all Australi