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About the Role

This Manager role is responsible for overseeing the financial performance of the Brand in the Australia market, driving profitable growth. The role involves managing acquisition costs, ensuring cost control, and providing timely and accurate reporting. It also includes benchmarking, appraising investments, partnering with commercial operations, and contributing to market strategy development.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the monthly close for RCI across the Australia market, covering commission and SG&A costs.
• Report on sailed revenue performance and other key performance metrics monthly.
• Manage the RCI annual operating plan process for sailed revenue and expenditure.
• Manage quarterly and monthly forecast processes, ensuring high accuracy.
• Prepare presentations for annual plan and quarterly forecast review meetings.
• Identify and quantify risks and opportunities in forecasts and plans.
• Manage the capital acquisition request process, justifying expenditures and facilitating approvals.
• Prepare monthly management reports on ship and market performance.
• Facilitate monthly pre-close variance analysis reviews.
• Prepare ad hoc reports as requested.
• Establish communication protocols between Australia Finance and corporate functions.
• Partner with the RCI commercial/sales team to develop and review commission proposals.
• Partner with the central International Marketing team to understand investment decisions and ROI.
• Provide regular analysis on commission expenditure, channel performance, and profitability.
• Partner with budget owners to review vendor selection proposals/bids.
• Oversee the Finance review of all contracts.
• Assist business managers with cost and benefits justification for capital investment projects, including IRR and NPV calculations.
• Analyze capital projects for reasonableness.
• Facilitate the timely approval process for capital projects.
• Conduct post-project reviews of capital investments to ensure forecast benefits are achieved.
• Manage one staff member within the Australia Finance team.
• Develop the Australia Finance team, addressing performance, development, and workload optimization.
• Assist senior management with ad hoc projects such as strategic planning and market development opportunities.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• Professional Accounting Qualification required.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related function.
• Relevant post qualification experience in an international business.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a commercial environment in an analytical/ FP&A role.
• Prior management experience required.
• Travel industry knowledge/ experience highly desirable.
• Monitor & drive improvements in Australia revenue - $326M.
• Control & optimisation of Australia investment – SG&A $20M; Commissions $11M.

Skills

• Open and direct management style, practicing participative management.
• Ability to motivate, retain, and develop the team.
• Excellent partnering skills with non-Finance functions.
• Ability to work as part of a global matrix structure.
• Critical thinking and proactivity.
• Ability to initiate improvements and run projects independently.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build strong working relationships.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage and deliver concurrent projects.
• Ability to integrate fully into international and corporate cultures.
• Significant experience using a modern MIS system (e.g., EPM / HFM applications).
• Excellent PC/ financial modeling skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Experience in systems automation.
• Interest in applying AI.

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Manager
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a commercial environment in an analytical/ FP&A role.
• Prior management experience required.

Education Level

• Professional Accounting Qualification
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related function.

About the Company

• RCI Australia Sales & Marketing teams
• RCI Australia Commercial and Revenue Management teams
• International Finance & RCI Brand Finance
• International Marketing
• Shared service teams including Accounting, Legal, HR etc
• In-house Call Centre team