Job title: Finance Team Leader & Planning
Company: Michael Page
Job description:
- Important leadership position working with the Corporate Planning team
- Supporting the business through Regulatory Reporting
About Our ClientOur client is a leading organisation serving a diverse and rapidly growing community in Victoria. They are responsible for delivering essential services, to both residential and commercial customers. This is a well known Melbourne based business.Job DescriptionThe Finance Team Leader & Planning role will lead on-People Leadership
- Through strategic leadership and oversight:
- Provide exceptional commercially focused leadership in the Financial Planning and Analysis team.
- Drive commercial thinking and rigour in collaboration with the Commercial Manager and CFO.
- Lead and apply best practise coaching techniques to maximise the potential of the team, both in capacity and capability.
- Drive/promote mindset change across the section, creating and maintaining a culture of high performance.
Commercial Capability & Strategic Advice
- Improve commercial capability across the team
- Provide trusted value to stakeholders by bringing financial insights, analysis and strategic thinking.
- Drive a Total Expenditure view of Investment spend to fully understand the impact to the Enterprise of the decision.
- Uplift the business to improve financial acumen and drive a financially sustainable mindset.
- Identify and manage risks and benefits associated with implementing business strategies and plans, including understanding the financial implications.
- Lead and prepare the financial modelling for the enterprise Financial Plan and scenario analysis
- Lead and prepare financial analysis to understand our cost optimisation opportunities, financial performance and insights
- Proactively lead on complex problems and develop understanding and insights to support the business i.e. develop financial modelling and analysis if required
Stakeholder management
- Establish and maintain strong and enduring relationships across the senior leadership team seeking to identify collective needs/requirements and working together to achieve Enterprise strategic outcomes.
- Proactively collaborate across the business to support and influence commercial decisions with consideration of strategic, fiscal and compliance impacts.
- Develop and continuously improve a centralised approach for planning (Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Planning) owned and managed by the Financial Planning and Analysis team.
Reporting and Governance
- Experience leading on the Corporate Plan and Reporting
- Responsible for the team and delivery of the Regulatory reporting for the group
- Deliver continuous improvement of Enterprise reporting to generate insights and action towards Enterprise strategy and targets.
- Develop improved reporting through self-service options (i.e., Power BI dashboards).
- Support development of frameworks for the financial governance of Business cases, across Finance and other functions.
The Successful ApplicantThe ideal candidate will demonstrate-
- CA/CPA Qualified
- Strong financial management experience within a complex corporate environment or commercial aspects of running a government business enterprise or private sector utility with understanding of the regulatory and authorising environment.
- Experience leading the Corporate plan and managing organisational change.
- Strong influencing and leadership skills to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
- Track record in previously leading a Finance team
- High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results orientation.
What’s on OfferThe Finance Team Leader & Planning role will pay in the range of $130,000- $140,000 base + super. The offices are located in the Western suburbs and provide flexible working.
Expected salary: $130000 – 140000 per year
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Job date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:32:11 GMT
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