Finance Partner, Payments Simplification

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Region**: NSW- Sydney CBD, VIC- Melbourne CBD

As the Finance Partner within the Group COO Finance team, you will be driving financial insight and analysis based on a deep understanding of the Payment, Simplification &Technology Modernisation business areas.

The purpose of the role is to be a member of the PS&TM Business teams to support and provide commercial financial leadership, guidance and support to the business including financial planning, financial control, forecasting, reporting, analysis, and advisory services.
- **Opportunity to work with talented Finance Leaders and colleagues. Breadth and scale of financial activities.**:

- **Support the NAB Group's financial accounting, controlling, forecasting, planning and reporting process.**:

- **We grow leaders who inspire and energise their teams.**

**In this Finance Partner role, you will**
- Support the BU Executives in partnership to grow the business, align with our strategic ambition and ensure transformation / simplification benefits are achieved in a sustainable and coordinated manner, including being a conduit between business, workforce planning, domain and/or procurement to enable and manage outcomes.
- Deliver monthly reporting, understand the performance drivers and provide key reasons for variance from plan and prior reporting periods.
- Support the production of half yearly and annual reporting requirements for by providing high quality commentary and meeting deadlines.
- Identify financial and non-financial performance trends through critical review and analysis and develop and recommend strategies to improve business performance.
- Create insights to assist the business in understanding plan changes and options to meet plan.
- Constructively challenging management's proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of the relevant Business Unit, providing advice to the BU leadership teams on critical decisions and trade-offs.
- Coaching and development of Senior Associates to deliver above for the business and grow commercial acumen, risk and control management and simplification capability of Finance team.

**Your Capabilities, Experience & Qualifications will include**:

- Strong stakeholder management skills where you can constructively challenge management's proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of the relevant Business Unit.
- Experience across a range of Finance disciplines including partnering with divisions, corporate centre planning and reporting and financial control roles.
- Tertiary qualification in Commerce/Business, CA/CPA preferable.
- Capability to work in a fast-paced, at times ambiguous and complex environment.
- Data and business intelligence, including advanced Excel skills and ideally some exposure to PowerBI.
- Previous experience in Payments, Deposits, transactions recognised.
- Strong process improvement capability in both identification and successful implementation of process re-engineering initiatives.

**A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone**

We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of equity and respect - where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their authentic selves. In partnership with our multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we continue to foster an inclusive environment, where all NAB colleagues' unique backgrounds and identities are understood, respected and celebrated.

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