Business Partner Finance

About Resolution Life

Resolution Life Australasia is one of the leading life insurers in Australia and New Zealand, with ~ 1 million customers with superannuation, investments and life insurance policies, managing approximately A$30 billion in assets and have 1,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand.

We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives, foster an inclusive, collaborative and flexible working environment, where everyone can thrive. We are a fully enterprise agile organisation, and will support your professional growth and reward your contribution.

The Opportunity

Join a high-performing Commercial Finance team as a Finance Business Partner, with two exciting opportunities available, a 12-month fixed term contract and a permanent role. This senior position plays a pivotal role in supporting strategic decision-making across RLA Australasia, partnering closely with the CFO, Chapter Lead, and business stakeholders. You will lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance reporting, while managing investment spend, transformation benefits, and cost base control to ensure timely, accurate insights that drive business outcomes.

Key responsibilities include overseeing monthly and quarterly close processes, delivering robust variance analysis, and guiding business unit leaders through cost management and strategic planning. You will support project portfolio governance, uplift financial controls, and mentor both onshore and offshore resources. Your ability to distil complex financial data into clear, actionable insights will be critical in influencing senior leadership and enabling effective decision-making across the organisation.

Success in this role requires a commercially astute finance professional with 10-15 years’ experience in reporting and analysis, ideally within life insurance or financial services. CA, CPA, or actuarial qualifications are preferred. You will demonstrate strong stakeholder management, advanced problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to operate autonomously in a fast-paced, agile environment. Exceptional communication skills, strategic thinking, and a collaborative mindset are essential to delivering high-impact results.

How will you make an impact?- Work with senior leadership to ensure that Finance deliverables, requirements and appropriate controls and disciplines are met, maintained, and enhanced.- Support the monthly, quarterly and full year close management reporting for RLA entities, including execution of relevant processes and controls- Report and seek to understand and drive BU end to end costs (operating expense, project implementation costs). Produce variance analysis actual to plan, and partner with BU owners to investigate deviations, providing insights to guide management actions and strategic decisions.- Monitor project activity associated with cost reductions and identify cost savings.- Support the business plan planning and forecasting processes, assimilating data sources and outputs from various teams for inclusion in the overall plan.- Support the team Coordinator in meeting team key results and objectives- Provide direction and monitoring for offshore outsourced resources as required, and share knowledge, develop and mentor other members of the team.- Support the uplift of financial controls, process development and documentation.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following:
- Ability to work individually without direction, take the initiative and drive outcomes- Work practices - Ability to work in an agile environment but have the ability to manage multiple activities with different competing requirements- Problem solving - ability to assimilate and analyse complex information from disparate sources and provide sound, well-reasoned outputs- Outcomes driven - must be focused on meeting deadlines, proactive - able to drive the outcomes with different stakeholder’s, is collaborative and delivers to agreed outcomes- Strong relationship management skills - ability to manage stakeholders and competing priorities- Flexibility - willingness to focus on additional initiatives as they arise- Strong communication skills, including ability to distil complex material into key messages which are clear and concise, storytelling to support strategic decisions and management decisions.- Strong commercial acumen and ability to approach matters with a customer and business focus

Why Join Us?

At Resolution Life Australasia, we provide a flexible work environment and access to a range of employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally including:
- Career pathways, including local and global mobility opportunities- Leading Learning Platforms and support in professional development- Health and Wellbeing Programs

Accessibility and Checks
Before commencing employment in this role, you will need to provide two references, full working rights and complete police and credit checks through an online