Apply: Finance Business Partner, Group Services

Reference: BH-161692-1
My client is a leading Australian Insurance Group and employer of choice. They have superb reputation and manage to balance a high performance culture with market leading flexibility and work life balance. 

They currently have an urgent contract role for a strong finance business partner or senior financial analyst to join a key business unit finance team.  

Reporting into the Senior Manager, Group Services Finance key responsibilities will include:
  • Assist to co-ordinate the preparation of expense budgets, forecasts and analysis for Group Services
  • Support execution of the month end process for reporting expenses (TCE) for Group Services with a deep understanding of productivity drivers.
  • Support the financial governance of Group Services costs and associated transactional postings, ensuring accuracy and integrity
  • Execute accurate financial performance reporting to enable the Group Services functions to monitor and track against financial targets
  • Execute the production of timely and accurate reporting, analysis and commentary for Group Services
  • When required provide BAU financial support across the Group Services functions, including financial modelling, sensitivity analysis and deep dive financial analysis
  • Occasionally provide operational financial support and advice for initiatives within Group Services including: scenario modelling, ad hoc business partnering support and targeted financial analysis
  • Contribute as required to the successful delivery of, and execution towards elements of the CFO Plan and other process improvement opportunities
  • Develop, maintain and influence key relationships across the group to support the successful delivery of key objectives through alignment of financial, operational and strategic goals
  • Provide support to colleagues within the Enterprise Finance – Business Partnering teams and the broader Finance team, as required
 
Skills & Experience
  • Minimum 5 years’ post qualified Management Accounting or financial analysis expertise required , preferably within financial services
  • Experience in finance and accounting including financial management/reporting, technical accounting knowledge and business commerciality
  • Understanding of business and financial impacts of operational decisions
  • Knowledge of finance reporting systems and frameworks, preferably TM1 experience
  • Attention to detail and ability to multitask, adhere to deadlines and perform under pressure
  • Advanced excel skills with some exposure to financial modelling
  • Good interpersonal skills and an effective communicator
  • Experience in analysing the underlying drivers of Total controllable Expenses
  • Group Services exposure highly regarded
  • CA/CPA/CIMA qualified

This is an urgent contract role initially for 6 months but with potential to extend for the right candidate. 
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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