Manager, Fp&a, Australia

**Job Title**
Manager, FP&A, Australia

**The Role**

As the Manager, FP&A you will partner with the business to deliver quality insights and management information. This includes monitoring and production of information to monitor expenses, underwriting, and investment performance.

The FP&A team is responsible for preparing regular and ad-hoc analysis, reporting and presentations for senior stakeholders. The FP&A team partners with Corporate Actuarial and the wider business to prepare the annual 5 year business plan.

This role is responsible for the accounts payable and treasury activities including cash flow management. As the remit of the role is broad it includes compliance with taxes, payroll and investment management activities including portfolio optimisation.

The FP&A team is responsible for quarterly management information packs for the Global Protection Executive Committee of PL Re and the local Pacific Life Re Australia Board. Other regular deliverables include Investment Committee packs and assisting with the quarterly financial close.

This role will at times be required to assist the Finance Australia team support business unit projects by participating and managing ad-hoc tasks and projects as and when required.

This role offers an opportunity to partner across the business, analyse financial performance and drive value through recommendations, utilising your influencing skills.

In this role you will be a key member of a strong and diverse team and will gain wide exposure across all functions in the Australian Business Unit. This role requires some out of hours calls with the group FP&A team based in the UK.

**Duties**
- Preparation and review of key management information including quarterly reporting, reporting to various committees and internal stakeholders
- Partner with Corporate Actuarial to deliver the annual business plan
- Manage investment portfolios, treasury activities and cashflow
- Ad-hoc financial analysis to support PL Re Division and Pacific Life Group initiatives
- Partner with the wider business to deliver financial insights

**Qualifications & Experience**

**Essential Experience**
- At least 2 years post qualified experience
- Specialist understanding of accounting and control in the life insurance industry
- Demonstrated ability to improve processes and challenge the status quo
- Able to add value through effective financial analysis demonstrating influencing and presentation skills
- Able to simplify complex problems and present these in concise reports and presentations
- Able to frame issues, and make recommendations to enable quick and sound decision making
- Excellent communication skills
- Proficiency in Excel
- Insurance industry experience desirable

**Working For Pacific Life Re**

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

**Benefits**
- Group Income Protection
- Gym Membership
- Employee Assistance Program (Access EAP)
- Dexus Community and Wellspace Initiatives
- Australian Super
- Fortnightly Massages

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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