Finance Analyst

Posted: 14/01/2025

Closing Date: 28/01/2025

**Job Type**: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Canberra

Job Category: Banking and Financial Services

**Your new role**:
The Finance Analyst is responsible for delivering in-depth financial analysis and modelling, as well as monitoring budgets and forecasts to provide critical financial insights. Working closely with the Finance Business Partners, the role focuses on producing meaningful analysis that informs and supports strategic decision-making. Additionally, the Finance Analyst prepares high-quality financial management reports, presenting clear and actionable insights into organisational performance to support senior management in both strategic and operational decisions.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Prepare financial models and analysis to support business initiatives, including cost allocation, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis.
- Support Finance Business Partners in delivering high-quality financial insights and actionable recommendations to inform strategic and operational decision-making.
- Consolidate and report on budgets and forecasts, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of key financial information to stakeholders.
- Prepare high-quality financial management reports for senior management and the Board, with clear commentary on key performance drivers.
- Contribute to budget submissions and provide input to the analysis of budget-related memoranda and funding proposals from Government.
- Undertake ad-hoc financial analysis and support strategic initiatives, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to organisational needs.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**What you need to excel**:
You will possess below technical expertise and experience:

- Degree from a recognised tertiary institution in Finance, Accounting or Commerce
- Appropriate professional qualification (e.g. CA, CPA or equivalent) or a relevant non-accounting qualification (e.g. an applicable MBA)
- Strong business and commercial acumen with proven success in building relationships at all levels to provide insights and recommendations
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence, negotiate, listen to and provide practical solutions to operational and financial performance.
- Applied knowledge and experience of management accounting methods and procedures such as budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis
- Experience with large financial management information systems (e.g Technology One, SAP, Oracle etc)
- Experience producing high quality written reports for senior executive or board level audience
- Experience in the financial services industry

CSC’s Core Competencies reflect the key sets of skills, knowledge, experience, and behaviours required to perform your role effectively. These are:

- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Working with People
- Adapting and Responding to Change
- Deciding and Initiating Action
- Analysing
- Commercial and Strategic Thinking

**The drive to make a difference.**

With over $70B in funds under management, CSC has provided superannuation services to employees of the Australian Government and members of the Australian Defence Force for over 100 years. We are proud to serve those who serve Australia.

Every day, CSC makes a real difference by guiding our customers to make the right choices, and to feel confident about their financial wellbeing. Through our world-leading investment strategies, we are always growing and improving. That means creating an environment where each and every one of us has the opportunity to strive together for excellence.

**How** **do I apply?**

**Please note**: Agency submissions will not be considered for this position**

**Applications close: 5PM 28 January 2025**

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