Role Overview

We are seeking a high-impact finance professional to join the Australia leadership team in a hybrid role spanning Financial Planning & Analysis and Commercial Excellence. This role is designed to strengthen financial rigor while materially improving sales effectiveness by embedding disciplined pipeline management, forecasting accuracy, and performance cadence across the sales organization.

The role partners closely with the Finance Business Partner and Sales leadership, acting as the connective tissue between financial outcomes, commercial execution, and sales predictability.

Key Responsibilities Key Responsibilities

• Financial Planning & Analysis – Lead and support forecasting, budgeting, monthly close and financial planning activities, partnering with the Finance Business Partner and regional FP&A teams.
• Financial Performance & Insights – Analyse P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, orders, backlog, pricing, costs and segment profitability to identify trends, risks and opportunities and support informed business decisions.
• Executive & Management Reporting – Prepare accurate and insightful financial and commercial reporting, dashboards and presentations for senior leadership and regional stakeholders.
• Finance Integration & Process Improvement – Support financial system and process integrations, including data migration, validation and harmonisation, while driving improvements in automation, reporting accuracy and efficiency.
• Sales Pipeline & Forecast Management – Drive pipeline health, sales forecast accuracy and early identification of commercial risks and opportunities to improve revenue predictability and business performance.
• Commercial Excellence & Sales Governance – Establish and maintain disciplined sales processes, opportunity definitions, pipeline inspection rhythms and governance aligned with regional commercial excellence standards.
• CRM, Data & Performance Ownership – Own CRM governance, sales dashboards and commercial data quality, ensuring reliable information is available to support sales performance, forecasting and strategic decision-making.
• Sales Performance & Commercial Execution – Partner with sales leaders to establish targets, strengthen performance review cadences and translate pipeline and backlog insights into actionable sales priorities, while leading the local execution and change management of commercial excellence initiatives.
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Required Competencies & Qualifications

• Strong FP&A and financial analysis capability, with demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis and translating financial data into meaningful business insights.
• Commercially focused mindset with the ability to understand key business drivers, including revenue, margin, pricing, costs, orders and backlog, and provide recommendations that support profitable growth.
• Experience partnering with sales and commercial teams highly regarded, including exposure to CRM platforms, sales pipeline management, forecasting, sales performance metrics and commercial reporting.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with the ability to work confidently with complex datasets, develop robust financial models and improve reporting through automation and analytical tools.
• CPA, CFA or equivalent professional finance qualification preferred, supported by approximately 5–10 years of relevant experience across FP&A, commercial finance, business partnering or a related finance discipline.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities and confidently engage with senior finance, sales and business leaders.