Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

at  Melbourne Sports Centres

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• CA / CPA qualified
• 2-3+ years’ experience in a similar role
• A naturally collaborative, enquiring, and positive working style, with the ability to balance teamwork, autonomy, attention to detail and big picture, strategic thinking
• A resilient, measured and solution-oriented mindset
• Broad understanding of business processes and key drivers
• Strong commercial acumen, and an ability to balance this appropriately with prudent fiscal and compliance risk management
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey complex financial information in an accessible and relevant way to diverse employee populations
• Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills, especially Excel
• Broad experience with a variety of financial accounting and system packages: Dynamics 365 and Jet Reporting an advantage
• An ability and genuine interest in maintaining awareness of best practice/sector developments, and to applying these where relevant to add value in service and outcome delivery

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager will be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team supporting the General Manager of People & Finance to accurately budget and forecast across the organisation. This position will play a pivotal role in shaping the annual business case to the Victorian Government for funding and assists in informing both operational and strategic priorities / decision making.

AS A FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS MANAGER YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Driving analysis and insights, long-term (5-year) planning, modelling, budgeting and forecasting
• Finance leadership, partnering with the business and strong stakeholder management
• Building the FP&A function at a critical juncture of this organisations’ development
• End to end accountability for the annual budgeting and 24 month rolling reforecasting process
• Corporate modelling support, various other ad-hoc analysis and presenting when necessary
• Monthly cashflow forecasting
• Financial modelling to support strategic decision making
• Continuous process improvement review and maintain financial policies, procedures and processes as required to ensure compliance, effective outcome delivery and best practice
• Other duties as required, to support the overall operations of the business needs