Senior Finance Analyst

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Senior Finance Analyst. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Are you a high performer with an analytical and strategic mindset?
• Opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst
• Utilise your expertise in providing commercial financial analysis and insights

• Are you a high performer with an analytical and strategic mindset?
• Opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst
• Utilise your expertise in providing commercial financial analysis and insights

We're NAB

For more than 150 years, we've been helping our customers with their money. Today, we have more than 35,000 people serving 10 million customers at more than 800 locations in Australia, New Zealand and around the world. We have built our business on understanding our customers and supporting them. We aim to take the hard work out of banking.

As Australia's largest business bank, we work with small, medium and large businesses to help them start, run and grow. We fund some of the most important infrastructure in our communities – including schools, hospitals and roads. And we do it in a way that's responsible, inclusive and innovative.

More than money

We know that to be Australia and New Zealand's most respected bank, we need to be good with money. And we need to be just as good with people, too.

About the role

The role of a Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for ensuring all operational finance related activities are performed and delivered in a timely and accurate manner. To be successful in this role, you will utilise the outputs from other teams (including offshore teams) in an efficient and effective manner to deliver financial information, incorporating business knowledge and providing performance insights, analysis and recommendations to internal stakeholders to support decision making and drive business performance.  This role requires the application and delivery of operational finance expertise to business units to ensure the results accurately reflect financial performance and provide performance analysis and commentary as required.

Accountabilities

In this pivotal and exciting role, your key responsibilities will include:

Period end close

• Financial management of business unit P&L, Balance sheet, and Investment spend analysis (where appropriate) including the generation of transactions to the ledger (through journals), forecast / plan review, opex/capex review and issue investigation / resolution.
• Validation of balance sheet account balances for each business unit

Analysis and performance management

• Analysis (2nd level) of the performance of the business unit utilising Internal reporting
• Analysis and commentary to support group requirements
• Management of consolidated reporting and targets within each business unit
• Analysis of plans, benefits/metrics tracking, budgets, milestones and progress reporting for a number of projects.
• Sourcing and integration of non-financial drivers and commercial information to support performance management
• Effective forecasting of P&L, balance sheet, and Investment spend to support the Finance Partner

Supporting the business

• Management of system requirements to support the business including operating structure, account maintenance, and project set up
• Management of business unit in adherence to Finance policy and processes
• Management of planning & forecasting templates and models to ensure consistency and accuracy

 Planning & Forecasting

• Provide timely and accurate business forecasts, plans and analysis to allow business partners to make better decisions.
• Business partnering with senior management to deliver the operational budget/forecast in accordance with Group requirements.
• Co-ordinating budget/forecast processes across multiple business units
• Producing timely budget/forecast presentation & reports to the Group Performance Management team
• Working to ensure continuous improvements in budget/forecast tools
• Investigating and providing ad-hoc analysis to budget/forecast

Skills and experience

You will be customer focused, outcome driven and be inquisitive by nature. Your demonstrated experience working in a similar Senior Finance Analyst role in a large matrix organisation, ideally within Financial Services sector along with previous experience working in a Professional Accounting firm will ensure your success in this position. You will have a deep understanding of financial management and highly evolved expertise in financial analysis, financial and management reporting in addition to the solid understanding of expense and revenue drivers. Your sound knowledge of financial and management accounting standards, policies, practices and processes as they apply to the banking transactions will be an advantageous; along with your ability to communicate with influence – engaging and inspiring others through clear & persuasive communication. You will have proven capabilities in driving continuous improvement initiatives to uplift business performance and support decision making; along with demonstrated ability to work under own initiative and to deal with stakeholders from various areas would be an advantage. A relevant tertiary qualification in Business, Commerce, Accounting or Finance coupled with a post graduate qualification (CA / CPA) is required for this role.

Culture

We believe in people with ideas and dreams, and we want you to achieve your aspirations. At NAB we work together to deliver exceptional outcomes that push the limits of expectations. Our passion about creating value and exceeding our customers' expectations means we're constantly striving to redefine our standards of excellence.

Benefits

At NAB, we provide access to a large number of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally. These include volunteer leave, education and learning benefits and banking & financial services discounts for example. Visit our benefits page for more information http://www.nab.com.au/about-us/careers/working-at-nab/benefits

How to apply

If you are ready to take the next step in your career, we are keen to hear from you!

Please note, candidate screening and interviews may take place prior to the advertised close date.

To be eligible to apply, you must have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status. Please apply via the link.

We embrace diversity of thought, style and working arrangements to ensure our workforce is representative of the community that we serve.