Finance Business Partner

Posted: 09/07/2025

Closing Date: 24/07/2025

**Job Type**: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Sydney

Job Category: Banking and Financial Services

**Summary**:
Join CSC as a Finance Business Partner, where you'll provide strategic financial advice and insights to drive operational performance, project delivery, and commercial outcomes. This permanent role partners with senior leaders to support decision-making through robust financial analysis, reporting, and business case development.

**Location**:Canberra or Sydney based**

**About the role**

The Finance Business Partner assists management in meeting the strategic and operational targets of CSC. Building strong relationships and trust with key stakeholders across the organisation, you will provide insights that support commercial decision-making across both operations and project initiatives. This role partners with a business portfolio, providing financial analysis and advice that enables the delivery of strategic objectives, operational performance, and successful project outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Partner with the business to consult and provide advice to the Executive team and managers in the preparation and management of budgets and forecasts, ensuring accuracy and alignment with strategic goals.
- Prepare and analyse timely and accurate monthly management accounting reports, ensuring commentary and analysis clearly explain key performance drivers for the relevant portfolio and provide recommended solutions.
- Proactively investigate trends and anomalies, taking corrective action where required. Translate financial data into actionable insights for stakeholders.
- Support the development and analysis of business cases and project proposals, providing input to ensure alignment with financial and strategic objectives.
- Prepare and review financial modelling and sensitivity analysis
- Assist the business portfolio in the month
- and year-end finance process, including accruals, time sheeting, capitalisation, and work order management.
- Assist the business in defining, tracking, and realising project benefits, ensuring alignment with business case outcomes throughout and following project delivery.
- Specific duties, deliverables and reporting lines may vary from time to time depending on business needs and priorities. Key objectives and measurements will be captured in the Performance & Development planning cycle, established annually and adapted as needed._

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**What you'll need to excel**
- 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) is desirable
- Experience with large financial management information systems (e.g. Technology One, SAP, Oracle, etc.) is desirable
- Experience in the financial services industry and/or project management is desirable
- Strong business and commercial acumen with proven success in building relationships at the Executive level to provide insights and recommendations
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence, negotiate, listen, and provide practical solutions to operational and financial performance
- Proven experience producing high-quality reports for senior executive or board-level audiences
- Strong numeracy, accuracy, and attention to detail
- Applied knowledge and experience of management accounting methods and procedures such as budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint, with proficiency in Excel

**What you'll get in return**
- A permanent full-time role which offers hybrid working arrangements
- The opportunity to join our transformation journey, shape CSC's learning culture, and make your mark in the financial services sector
- Work alongside a passionate and results-oriented team that prides itself on driving positive business outcomes
- Enjoy competitive benefits such as enhanced parental leave
- Access to CSC's unique Core Competency Framework - driving recognition, development, and empowerment

**Why CSC?**

As one of Australia's first super funds, our story started with a small pension fund, the 1922 Scheme. Fast forward 100 years to today, CSC is now recognised as a global leader in best-practice governance and innovation. We manage 11 government super funds, and over 680,000 Australians trust us to look after $56.7 billion of their retirement savings.

At CSC, our diverse workforce of talented people unite to guide our customers to reach their retirement dreams. Our work makes a real difference to customers' lives. Super is personal, and so is our approach to one another. We are committed to ensuring people at CSC thrive. We create opportunities and nurture our people's careers, so they lead meaningful and balanced work lives.
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