Associate Bpb Finance

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Pay Level**: Group 2
**Reports to**: Nathan Hale
**View Role purpose statement**
- **You’ll work collaboratively with colleagues across teams to leverage best practices and maximise efficiency while achieving outcomes**:

- **Be part of a highly engaged team committed to diversity and flexibility**:

- **Learning is a daily part of the job.**

***It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.**

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

We currently have an opportunity for an Associate to join our Finance department in the Private Wealth Business and Private Banking finance team. You will provide support to the Finance Partner and other team members to provide commercial financial analysis and recommendations to improve finance processes and business performance. You will perform monthly reporting to the business outlining the Business Bank financial performance drivers including understanding of variances to plan/expectations.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Prepare, analyse, and investigate financial reporting, including understanding of variances to plan to ensure accurate reporting and to facilitate insights for the drivers of variances
- Provide detailed financial analysis to enable the provision of commercial and financial advice, on initiatives to the Business.
- Assist to maintain strong balance sheet controls and demonstrate an understanding of balance sheet accounts, through the review of balance sheet reconciliations including ensuring aged balances are cleared and reconciliation breaks are understood and providing detailed analysis and information to support the FDC process.
- Support half year and year end reporting periods by acting as the key process support for external disclosures and subsidiary audits.
- Support change initiatives by assessing financial impacts including validating / restatement of numbers, mapping of ledger and insight and taking actions to reduce key data gaps as required
- Complete maintenance requests and support HFM changes as required
- Assist to run financial planning model(s) to ensure business inputs and group assumptions are reflected
- Maintain an understanding of group finance policy requirements and ensure compliance through identifying and addressing any areas of non compliance.

**What you will bring**:

- Focused on driving commercial insights as well as delivering results
- Able to synthesize information from multiple sources, build financial models, identify, and synthesise key themes and communicate and influence effectively
- Technically proficient in use of modelling and visualisation tools (e.g. Advanced Excel, Power point, PowerBI would be an advantage).
- Enjoys working collaboratively and building positive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.
- Uncompromising drive, passion, focus, and energy to help innovate and drive change.
- Experience in Finance/ Financial Services
- Tertiary qualification required. CA/CPA qualified or a desire to complete would be an advantage.

By joining NAB, you are committing to putting our customers’ needs first every time. You will be ambitious for growth; always curious and learning from colleagues. You will speak honestly, always valuing the time and opinion of others. You will own your work, doing what’s right, even when it’s hard.

**A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.**

At NAB, we’re intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

**More focus on you**

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities.

**Join NAB**

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

**Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.