About the Role
Lead the commercial and financial planning strategy for the ANZ business, partnering with executives to provide financial insights that drive decision-making. Modernize planning capabilities through automation, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled forecasting.
Responsibilities
- Lead ANZ budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning processes, ensuring alignment between financial outcomes and strategic priorities.
- Translate complex commercial, product, and operational drivers into meaningful insights for executive decision-making.
- Partner with leaders across Product, Commercial, Strategy, and Operations to evaluate growth opportunities, pricing initiatives, investment decisions, and margin optimization strategies.
- Develop robust scenario modeling and forecasting frameworks to improve visibility of risks, opportunities, and key business drivers.
- Drive the evolution of FP&A capabilities through automation, scalable planning processes, and improved access to data-driven insights.
- Champion the adoption of business intelligence tools, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled forecasting methodologies.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Finance Business Partners, fostering an inclusive culture focused on growth, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Embed strong risk-return thinking into planning and forecasting processes, ensuring business decisions align with strategic objectives and risk appetite.
- Continuously improve financial transparency, forecasting accuracy, and performance management across the ANZ business.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Strategic Finance functions within high-growth technology, fintech, or financial services environments.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect financial outcomes to broader business strategy and growth objectives.
- Exceptional financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills, with experience translating complex information into actionable business insights.
- Proven ability to influence and partner with executive stakeholders across multiple business functions.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams through periods of growth, transformation, and change.
- Strong understanding of financial planning systems, ERP platforms, and modern reporting environments.
- Passion for leveraging automation, business intelligence tools, data accessibility, and emerging AI capabilities to improve decision-making.
- Experience within consumer lending, fintech, or financial services environments, including exposure to unit economics, customer acquisition metrics, margins, cost of capital, or bad debt modeling, will be highly regarded.
- A mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn, and grow.
- An aptitude for identifying and managing risks.
- Alignment with company values: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together, and Change the Game.
Skills
- FP&A
- Commercial Finance
- Strategic Business Partnering
- Financial Modeling
- Forecasting
- Analytical Skills
- Business Intelligence Tools
- Predictive Analytics
- AI Enabled Forecasting
- Automation
- Risk Management
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
Benefits
- 25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers
- Family support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave
- Mental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access to Wellbeing platform Sonder for you and family members, discounted private health insurance, and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass
- 2 days paid volunteering leave, 2 days study leave, and 2 days religious or cultural leave per year
- Fee free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners (AU)
- Team social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches
- Access the Flare Benefits Hub & Novated Leasing: Save on groceries, fuel, tech, fashion, dining and more, with exclusive health perks, wellbeing guidance and potential tax savings on car ownership.
About the Company
- Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products.
- Operating in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers access to point of sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.
- A values-led business guided by Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together, and Change the Game.
Equal Opportunity
- A team that reflects the diversity of our customers.
- A workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.
- Commitment to ensuring recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive.
