Lead Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Culture Amp Full time

**Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.**

Culture Amp revolutionizes how over 25 million employees across 6,000 companies create a better world of work. As the global platform leader for employee experience, Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, develop high performing teams, and retain talent via cutting-edge research, powerful technology, and the largest employee dataset in the world. The most innovative companies across the globe, such as Salesforce, PwC, KIND, SoulCycle, Celonis and BigCommerce depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by 10 years of innovation, leading capital venture funds, and offices in the U.S, U.K, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp is recognized as one of the world's top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative workplace companies by Fast Company.

**The Opportunity at Culture Amp**

You are deeply curious and passionate about people and culture. At heart, you're what we call a people geek. Culture Amp is looking for an exceptional Lead Finance Business Partner to join us in our mission to partner with strengthening the Commercial Finance muscle, particularly helping drive financial and commercial acumen and supporting the Product & Org vertical. This is a true business partnering role which will be focused on partnering with our key stakeholders which includes Product, Finance, Strategy, Legal, HR, IT and Security.

The management accounting side (while important) will only be a small portion of your responsibilities. The key focus will be providing valuable (analytical) insights, advice through financial acumen, business case support and ultimately bolstering financial awareness within the business. You will also have the privilege to lead a small team of exceptional Senior Finance Business Partners amongst a high performing and close knit Commercial Finance team.

This position will be an **12 month fixed-term contract** (maternity leave cover).

**As one of the members of this business-critical team, you will**:

- Forge strong, constructive and trusted relationships with various Executives and heads of departments
- Employ clear, positive and professional communication skills to provide key metrics insight to senior management and company wide
- Provide budgeting and forecasting support
- Provide key metrics insights, scenario modeling and support strategic planning initiatives
- Have a natural curiosity and drive to improve processes, simplify the message, attention to detail, getting things right and be excited to roll your sleeves up
- Proactively work with the business to create alignment and educate / empower
- Provide excellent Business Partnering support to our local and international stakeholders within the Org vertical
- Lead and mentor a small team of Senior Finance Business partners and collaboratively work with our overseas (US) team of FBPs.

**What You Bring to Our Camp**
- 7 - 10 years of Finance experience, primarily in the areas of business partnering, strategic finance / FP&A
- Ideally 2+ years of SaaS industry experience (not a core prerequisite)
- Proven experience in managing & advising senior stakeholders in a commercial support function
- Strong ability to build models and develop professional outputs for consumption
- Track record extracting, manipulating and making sense of large data sets
- Have strong commercial acumen
- Prior experience with a planning tool (eg: Adaptive Insights) would be preferable (not a core prerequisite)

**After 3 months, you will**:

- Have a detailed understanding of our business and what makes it tick
- Be contributing towards the commercial evolution of our business
- Have forged strong / constructive relationships with key stakeholders and the wider Finance team

**We believe that inclusive businesses are better, not just for "company results", but for the world. We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavour to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.**:
**We ensure you have the tools you need to thrive both in and out of work.**:

- **MacBooks for you to do your best work**:

- Flexible working schedule - where we can, let's make work, work for you
- **Fun and inclusive digital and in-person events**:

- Full usage of the Culture Amp platform to drive your development and provide regular avenues to share your voice on your team, department and the company

**Most importantly, an opportunity to really make a difference in people's lives.**:
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