Role at a glance
- Job function
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Accounting, Tax & Corporate Finance Corporate Finance, FP&A & Treasury
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Ballarat, Australia
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- Experience in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, management accounting, commercial finance, or operational finance within a complex organization.
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Role Summary
Finance Business Partner - FP&A role providing financial analysis, planning, reporting, and commercial insight to help business and functional stakeholders improve performance and make informed decisions across FP&A, operational and commercial finance, investment, and cost management.
What You'll Do
- Analyze and communicate financial and operational performance, highlighting key drivers, trends, risks, opportunities, and actions.
- Improve dashboards, report frameworks, metrics, and processes to strengthen quality, efficiency, and decision support.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning through financial modelling and analysis.
- Perform variance and scenario analysis, develop business cases, and recommend actions to improve outcomes.
- Partner with stakeholders to provide practical financial insight on priorities including resource allocation, pricing, investment,...
- Support finance policies, controls, governance, and data quality.
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Finance business partnering or FP&A experience in a complex organization, with financial modelling, analytical, and ERP/planning/BI platform skills.
Required
- Experience in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, management accounting, commercial finance, or operational finance within a complex...
- Proven ability to deliver financial insight and decision support across areas such as supply chain, manufacturing, e-commerce, CapEx,...
- Strong financial modelling, analytical, problem-solving, and data interpretation skills, with sound knowledge of budgeting, forecasting,...
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP, planning, and BI platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, OneStream, IBM Planning...
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts clearly and build collaborative relationships
- Commercial mindset and ability to turn analysis into practical recommendations and influence decisions through constructive challenge
Preferred
- Retail and/or FMCG experience
- At senior levels, experience partnering with leaders to influence strategic outcomes
Original job description
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Original job description
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Build the financial insights behind critical business decisions.
We’re hiring Finance Business Partners - FP&A professionals across Consultant, Associate Manager and Manager levels.
About the Role:
The Finance Business Partner provides financial analysis, planning, reporting, and commercial insight to help business and functional stakeholders improve performance and make informed decisions across FP&A, operational and commercial finance, investment, and cost management.
What you’ll do:
Your responsibilities may include:
- Analyze and communicate financial and operational performance, highlighting key drivers, trends, risks, opportunities, and actions.
- Improve dashboards, report frameworks, metrics, and processes to strengthen quality, efficiency, and decision support.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning through financial modelling and analysis.
- Perform variance and scenario analysis, develop business cases, and recommend actions to improve outcomes.
- Partner with stakeholders to provide practical financial insight on priorities including resource allocation, pricing, investment, productivity, and cost optimization.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships and, at senior levels, support coaching and knowledge sharing.
- Support finance policies, controls, governance, and data quality.
- Simplify and automate processes and contribute to ERP, planning, reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled finance improvements.
What we’re looking for:
You’ll bring experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Experience in Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, management accounting, commercial finance, or operational finance within a complex organization.
- Proven ability to deliver financial insight and decision support across areas such as supply chain, manufacturing, e-commerce, CapEx, OpEx, or corporate functions.
- Retail and/or FMCG experience is preferred; required experience varies by career level.
- Strong financial modelling, analytical, problem-solving, and data interpretation skills, with sound knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and performance management.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP, planning, and BI platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, OneStream, IBM Planning Analytics, Power BI, or Tableau.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts clearly and build collaborative relationships across the organization.
- Commercial mindset and ability to turn analysis into practical recommendations and influence decisions through constructive challenge.
- At senior levels, experience partnering with leaders to influence strategic outcomes.
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