Financial Planning

Company Description
**Are you ready to be a big part of something big?**

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

Not something you'd expect from one of the country's biggest tech companies, is it?

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle - Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.

This is your opportunity to join carsales as a Financial Planning and Reporting Analyst. Reporting to the Senior Financial Planning and Reporting Analyst, you will be responsible for driving the consolidated reporting of the group and play an essential role in the budgeting and forecasting process. This will include preparation and distribution of management reports, management of the planning and reporting system, as well as identifying and developing process improvement opportunities. You will also build on your business partnering skills, to drive commercial insights across the business to assist with identifying revenue growth and cost saving opportunities.

Our Finance team has a full understanding of how each of our business units work, as they collaborate and share ideas with all our teams to ensure we are always delivering the best possible user experience to our customers.

**What's on offer**:

- A place where you can move your career forward, where you'll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
- We're a certified Great Place to Work, Family Friendly Workplace and WGEA Employer of Choice.
- The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that you'll actually have face time with.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave.

**Job Description**:
**What you'll be doing**
- Understand and share expertise in production and distribution of weekly and monthly reports, including contributing to production of monthly board reports.
- Prepare and maintain departmental budget.
- Analyse actual results versus forecast, budget, and prior year results - for Group, Regional, Global Functions and Cost Centre/GL codes.
- Demonstrate understanding and expertise in managing quarterly forecast preparation and reporting.
- Providing insights into projects, business plans and budgets.
- Support the end to end annual budget process.
- Assist with management of reporting and planning system (Hyperion / PBCS).
- Support and develop systems reporting including process improvement.
- Prepare and manipulate data to enable modelling, analysis, monitoring and/or reporting components of the pricing process.

**Qualifications**:
**What we are looking for**
- Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don't take ourselves too seriously).
- Demonstrate understanding and expertise in accounting and financial planning and analysis.
- CA/CPA qualified (or working towards) with experience in working with ASX listed businesses preferred.
- Experience with NetSuite, Salesforce and Hyperion is an advantage.
- Advanced excel skills including Financial Modelling.
- Ability to analyse information and processes to draw meaningful conclusions, providing recommendations as required.
- Proven experience identifying and deploying process improvements.

Additional Information
**A few other things we want to let you know about...**
- We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask.
- We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.