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Senior Finance Analyst - Business Performance
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Senior Finance Analyst on a 12-month contract supporting the CFO and executive team at Australian Ethical, delivering management reporting, financial modelling, and commercial insights to guide business strategy and performance.
About this role
Your new role
As Senior Finance Analyst, you’ll join the Business Performance team on a 12-month maximum-term contract, supporting the CFO, Head of Investor Relations and executive leadership team. You’ll deliver clear analysis, management reporting and commercial insights to help guide business strategy, forecasting, budgeting and performance outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Drive the delivery of Board and management reporting, continuing to uplift the quality, accessibility and usability of insights.
- Support the monthly profit forecast process and annual budget cycle, engaging stakeholders and incorporating new business information.
- Contribute to annual and quarterly external reporting requirements, including ASX announcements, ensuring evidence points are verified and documented.
- Generate data-driven insights that identify opportunities, risks and emerging trends, and proactively communicate recommendations.
- Deliver sensitivity analysis, financial projections and financial models to highlight potential risks, levers and commercial impacts.
- Work closely with the business to understand key drivers and ensure forecasts and budgets appropriately reflect performance trends.
- Support the implementation of business strategy by identifying success metrics and reporting on progress.
- Provide decision support across strategy analysis, cost-benefit analysis, ROI, external market insights, competitor analysis and company-wide projects.
What we’re looking for
You’re a commercially astute finance professional with strong analytical judgement, a curious mindset and the ability to turn complex information into clear, meaningful insights. You’re confident partnering with senior stakeholders, working through ambiguity and using data to support better business decisions. If you bring the following, we’d love to hear from you:
- CA, CPA or CIMA qualification, with 7+ years’ financial services experience
- Experience across management accounting, performance reporting, financial modelling and financial analysis.
- Strong Excel modelling capability and confidence working with financial data, forecasts, budgets and commercial drivers.
- Ability to produce clear, high-quality internal and external communications, including reporting for senior audiences.
- Demonstrated experience working with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of investment products, financial markets and regulatory requirements, with superannuation or investments experience preferred.
- A proactive, questioning mindset, strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
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