FP&A Business Partner

Imagine preventing wildfires before they start, or ensuring power grids stay resilient during extreme weather. That's the real-world impact we create every day at Neara.

We build 3D physics-enabled digital twins of critical infrastructure networks that help utilities and infrastructure companies run scenarios, assess risks, and make smarter decisions that affect millions of lives.

We're not just another tech company - we're TIME's 2024 Most Influential Company making tangible differences in communities worldwide. We're backed by some of the world's leading venture capital and private equity investors.

Our team is passionate, brilliant, and genuinely excited about solving problems that matter. We've built something special here: a culture where everyone owns our mission, innovation thrives, and great work gets recognised. And now we're ready for our next chapter of growth.

Our ambition is to redefine the future of critical infrastructure intelligence. We need smart, creative, driven people to help us achieve it.

We are seeking a driven FP&A Business Partner with 3–5 years' experience—ideally with a Big 4 consulting or advisory background—to join our fast-growing SaaS organisation. This role is highly hands-on, providing exposure to core FP&A responsibilities while also playing an integral part in investor analysis, fundraising, and due diligence processes.

Reporting to the CFO you will work closely with senior leadership to deliver accurate, insightful financial analysis that drives decision making across the business. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious finance professional who thrives in a scaling environment and wants to accelerate their career with direct exposure to executive leadership and investors.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Support the budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.

• Build and maintain multi-scenario financial models to support decision making on strategic initiatives

• Provide support and analysis to regional and functional leaders to help drive productivity across the Group

• Deep dive into financial and operational results and provide insights into drivers of performance. Work with sales, delivery, strategy and operations teams to implement value adding changes driven by these insights and then track the benefits delivered.

• Support cash flow forecasting, capital planning and working capital analysis. Provide recommendations and support treasury function in making investment decisions for Neara's excess cash.

Investor Relations

• Partner with the finance leadership team to prepare materials for investors, including financial models, investor decks, and board reporting.

• Conduct detailed financial and operational analysis to support capital raises and M&A due diligence.

• Coordinate and respond to investor and due diligence information requests, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

Reporting & Business Insights

• Develop and deliver regular financial reports and dashboards for senior stakeholders.

• Support KPI tracking and performance analysis across departments.

• Translate data into actionable insights to inform strategic decisions.

Process & Systems

• Assist in developing scalable FP&A processes to support business growth.

• Work with finance systems and BI tools to enhance reporting automation, data integrity and support finance governance practices.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across finance and the wider group.

• 3–5 years' experience in FP&A, consulting, or corporate finance, ideally with training from a Big 4 firm (transaction services, deals, or financial advisory highly valued).

• Strong understanding of SaaS business models and subscription metrics.

• Advanced financial modelling and Excel/Google Sheets skills; familiarity with BI/FP&A tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, Cube) a plus.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with hands-on execution.

• Detail-oriented while able to step back and understand the bigger picture.

• Competitive salary ESOP. Significant career development and growth opportunities.

• Fully flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern.

• Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and no-ego work culture.

• The opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real-world problems.

• The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in the trajectory of a high growth company.

• Neara values diversity, belonging, and equal employment opportunities. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.