Retail & Commercial Cost Performance Specialist

**Req ID**: 96037
**Department**: FPM - Cost CoE
**Division**: Enterprise Finance
**Location**: Docklands
About Us
At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.
About the Role
As the Cost Performance Specialist in the Retail and Commercial Cost COE team, you will draw on many competencies and form a well-rounded finance professional. Working as part of the Retail team, you will be responsible for end-to-end cost activity with a primary focus on Retail business unit performance. This includes month-end performance reporting, providing accurate and timely financial information (actual analysis, performance reporting, divisional consolidation), planning and forecasting, day to day problem solving, and providing insightful analysis and advice covering BAU costs and investment slate/projects.
As a Divisionally aligned member of the Cost CoE you will be co-located with the Retail CFO and Business Partners, and the Australia Retail & Commercial Performance Management team, forming close relationships with your peers to deliver a seamless service proposition for your stakeholders.
While ensuring the financials are well managed, your responsibilities include driving continuous improvement of cost processes, supporting Enterprise Finance initiatives (such as the implementation of OneStream), and contributing to making the COE and Finance a great place to work.
Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.
**Role Type**: Permanent
**Role Location**: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008
**Work Hours**: Full time
What will your day look like?
**As a Retail Cost Performance Specialist, you will**:
Analyse business performance and key business drivers to identify and communicate issues requiring action and emerging trends, form the business unit performance narrative with a focus on productivity
Develop and execute operating processes and rhythms for your portfolio, working closely with Business Partners, providing performance management reporting & analysis to ensure that stakeholders are held to account for cost management decisions
Ensure your portfolio financials are well managed, providing policy advice on items such as capitalisation
Ensure connectivity and clear communication between Business Partners, the Portfolio Performance, Divisional Financial Performance Management, and Group Cost COE teams on matters pertaining to your business units
Provide guidance, coaching and mentorship to junior and GCC team members
What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
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
Strong financial experience, having worked in accounting / finance for several years, ideally CA/CPA or equivalent qualification. Financial control, FP&A, and / or business partnering experience will be highly beneficial
Strong verbal, visual and written communication skills to communicate with clarity on results, initiatives, and ideas to senior stakeholders
Strong people and stakeholder management to support the effective delivery of a variety projects/initiatives and stakeholders with multiple requirements
Proficient in core tools including Excel/PowerPoint, Financial Systems (HFM, PSGL), Think Cell and willingness to learn and use new tools and techniques
You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.
So why join us?
From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.
But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.
We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.
Job Posting End Date
23/05/2025, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)