Finance Analyst (Bendigo)

**Description**: **Overview of role**: The Finance Analyst, forming part of the Finance Business Partner team, will analyse Coliban Water's financial performance, forecast future trends, and identify opportunities for financial efficiency. They will guide budget owners with data-driven insights, produce reports, and provide performance commentary to the Board and senior stakeholders to support informed decision-making. **Key Responsibilities**: **As our Finance Analyst, you’ll be accountable for**: Drive optimal financial decision making through analysing financial and non-financial data and reports. Lead and develop the financial model including preparation of consolidated financial modelling for monthly reporting and annual budgets (Balance, Sheet, Cashflow, KPIs). Gather, review and analyse key business and commercial data including financial reports, budgets, billing data, forecasts, KPIs and other key metrics to support business performance and improvement strategies. Refining and streamlining processes, building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, and collaborating across finance teams. Drive a culture of financial integrity and awareness through training to ensure compliance with statutory requirements, business practices, policies, and procedures. **About you**: Tertiary accounting qualification, preferably with CPA or CA qualifications. Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyse financial and non-financial data. Experience and proficiency using accounting software, MS Excel and Power BI. A ‘can do’ approach that is customer focussed and results oriented together with existing practices to stay current with regulations and accounting standards. Demonstrated positive and proactive communication and interpersonal skills. Display strong attention to detail and numerical accuracy. Continuous improvement mindset, challenge the status quo. Sound like you? We’d love to hear from you. Learn more in the position description **Salary**: Enquiries To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter by COB 17/02/2025. Why join us? At Coliban Water our people are on a mission to create a better life for our customers and communities
- now and tomorrow. We love what we do and our location in the centre of a region that takes in 49 towns from Trentham to Echuca. Our commitment to inclusion means you’ll feel at home here no matter who you are, who you love, or what you stand for. As part of the team you receive a monthly accrued day off, time off over Christmas, the flexibility to shape your work to suit your lifestyle, and generous parental, carer and workplace study leave policies. At Coliban Water we balance a small team rhythm with the reach and resources of one of the largest Victorian regional urban water corporations. What are you waiting for? We’d love you to join us. Applicants will need to successfully complete all core training requirements in the expected timeframes and may be required to undertake a Police Check, Working with Children Check, Pre-Employment Medicals or Psychometric testing where applicable. Applicants may also be required to produce evidence of their Right to Work in Australia. Please note that applicants may be contacted prior to the closing date of this advertisement. Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3qh7fx