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About the Role
The Financial Analyst supports the delivery of strategic financial analysis, dashboards, and data visualisations, business partnering, financial reporting, and data-driven insights across a range of initiatives and projects within the Strategic Financial Analytics team.
Responsibilities
- Develop a strong understanding of operational and financial drivers within aligned portfolios, including Infrastructure Finance, to deliver meaningful, context-driven financial analysis and insights.
- Build collaborative relationships with stakeholders and finance teams to support effective business partnering and ensure analytical outputs are relevant, understood, and actionable.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, visualisations, and reporting outputs (e.g. Power BI and PowerPoint), applying data visualisation and storytelling techniques to communicate complex financial and operational information clearly and effectively.
- Extract, validate, and manage financial and operational data to support reporting, analysis, and recurring financial processes (e.g. budgets, forecasts, and monthly reporting), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and data integrity.
- Support the development and maintenance of financial models, scenario analysis, and business cases to evaluate options and inform strategic decision-making.
Requirements
- Proactive and adaptable, with a strong desire to learn, an open-minded approach to problem-solving, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated experience in financial planning, analysis, decision support, and business partnering, including advising senior stakeholders and contributing to strategic decision-making.
- Demonstrated experience working with large and complex datasets, using enterprise financial systems (e.g. PeopleSoft) and analytics tools (e.g. Power BI) to extract, validate, model, visualise, and report data that supports decision-making.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesise complex financial and operational information into clear, concise reports, presentations, dashboards, and insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated experience in financial modelling, scenario analysis, business case development, and the evaluation of operational or strategic initiatives.
- Experience working in the higher education sector or within a large, complex, multi-faceted organisation.
- Must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this employment.
- Employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all pre-employment or background checks.
- Must declare if investigated for, or found to have engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence in the course of previous employment or in a legal process.
Skills
- Financial planning
- Financial analysis
- Decision support
- Business partnering
- Data visualisation
- Storytelling
- Financial modelling
- Scenario analysis
- Business case development
- Power BI
- PowerPoint
- PeopleSoft
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
- Fixed-term
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $117,133 - $127,610+ 17% superannuation
About the Company
- The University of Sydney is committed to creating a University community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve.
- We are proud to be recognised as an Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Platinum Employer.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to creating a University community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve.
- We deliver on this through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, evidenced by our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTQIA+.
- We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.