About the Role
Partner closely with Sales teams to drive strong financial performance and decision-making. Work directly with senior Sales stakeholders, building trusted relationships and bringing the commercial story behind the numbers to life. This role requires comfort in moving between P&L performance, forecasting, and analysis, and collaborating with Sales leaders on performance and commercial drivers.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Sales stakeholders, including senior leaders, providing practical commercial finance support and insight.
- Lead monthly performance reviews, helping stakeholders understand performance and the key drivers behind the numbers.
- Deliver core FP&A activity including forecasting, budgeting, month-end, accruals and variance analysis.
- Support strong financial governance and controls, including customer investment agreements and SAP.
- Partner with Sales to work through customer claims, trading terms and other commercial issues.
- Oversee monthly CDS volume reporting and support annual audit and compliance requirements.
- Look for opportunities to simplify reporting, automate manual processes and continuously improve how the team works.
Requirements
- Experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A and Finance Business Partnering is a must.
- Strong relationship-building skills and the confidence to partner with senior Sales stakeholders.
- A solid understanding of P&L performance, forecasting, budgeting and commercial drivers.
- Experience working with SAP and financial reporting/planning tools.
- CA/CPA qualification, or equivalent professional finance qualification.
- The ability to turn financial information into clear, practical insights for non-finance stakeholders.
- Enjoy getting close to the business.
- Be curious about what’s driving Sales performance.
- Comfortable building relationships across the commercial team.
- Able to balance strong financial discipline with pragmatic business partnering.
Skills
- Commercial Finance
- FP&A
- Finance Business Partnering
- SAP
- Financial reporting
- Financial planning tools
- P&L performance
- Forecasting
- Budgeting
- Commercial drivers
- Relationship-building
- Communication
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Full Time
- Contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- CA/CPA qualification, or equivalent professional finance qualification
