Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Join Sitzler Pty Ltd, a leading construction company, as a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager based in our Berrimah Office. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the finance team in the 'Accounting & Finance' department. If you are an experienced professional looking for a 'Permanent - Full Time' position with a passion for financial planning and analysis, we want to hear from you

Main Purpose of the Role:

To leads Sitzler's financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to support strategic decision-making and drive performance and growth. Key responsibilities include overseeing budgets, performing financial analysis, creating financial models and forecasts, monitoring performance, and providing actionable insights to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). The role requires strong analytical skills, technical proficiency in financial software, and effective collaboration with various business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Includes but not limited to the following: 

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Lead the development of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for revenues, profits, expenses, and cash flow. Including updating Sitzler's financial model as required.

• Develop ownership and a detailed level of understanding across cash flow across projects and the total organisation, balance sheet metrics and working capital drivers. This includes debt and bonding outlook and capacity. 

• Develop a financial Risk and Opportunity register in-conjunction with the CFO and ELT.

Strategic Planning: 

• Provide financial insights and recommendations to support long-term financial health and strategic business decisions for Sitzler's 3 year plan.

• This includes maintaining all key data inputs into the model to guarantee the integrity of the model outputs. Also working with key stakeholders to develop accurate pipeline and orderbook information as well as overhead costs plus future resource planning.

• Maintain the financial Risk and Opportunity register in-conjunction with the CFO and ELT.

Strategic Decision Support:

• Business Partner with CFO, EMT and business units to evaluate financial implications of strategic initiatives, investments, and projects.

• Conduct scenario analysis to further assess potential risks and opportunities impact on Sitzler's financial outlook for downside and upside scenarios, potential mergers and acquisitions (including for ESG reporting requirements).

• Provide recommendations to optimise resource allocation and improve profitability.

Process Improvement:

• Streamline and automate financial reporting and planning processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.

• Implement best practices in financial analysis and forecasting.

• Collaborate with IT and other departments to enhance financial systems tools and data extraction

Financial Analysis and Reporting:

• Analyse financial performance, including variance analysis of actuals vs. budget/forecast. Including improvement the commentary for Sitzler's portfolio of projects and business unit performance.

• Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide actionable insights to improve financial outcomes. This includes working with the new Business Analytics team on creating a regular cadence and a set suite of reports, identifying exceptions and working with stakeholders to implement change as a result of your findings.

People and Stakeholders

• The role is a key manager role within the Finance and Administration team

• As a manager the FP&A Manager provides wider support to finance team with respect to month end reporting, half year and full year statutory reporting and ad-hoc requests from the Finance team lead.

• The role is to primarily business partner to the CFO in completing all key budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning activities. In addition, this includes strategic and ad-hoc projects the CFO allocates to the FP&A Manager to complete (e.g. overhead recovery and overhead resourcing reviews). 

• The FP&A Manager is to remain positive relationships with ELT members and provide analytical support as directed by the CFO or Finance & Admin Leader. 

Qualifications 

Minimum level of knowledge/skills/training required to carry out the job: 

• CPA or CA qualification required

• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Economics or equivalent required

• Masters degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration preferred

• Demonstrated capacity to build, foster, and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders at a senior level and adept at fostering cross-functional cooperation and stakeholder alignment.

• Proven initiative, problem solving ability and strong work ethic with the capacity to establish priorities, manage deadlines and work independently under broad direction and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

• Illustrated ability to provide guidance, and mentoring to junior colleagues to support their professional development.

• Advanced Microsoft excel skills for forecast modelling analytics and data management.

Work Experience

Considered necessary to do the job effectively:

• Minimum of 5 to 10 years full time experience in financing and accounting

• Working collaboratively in a small team environment