Finance Analyst (Toowong)

**6 Month Fixed Term Contract! Potential to go perm!**

**Your new team**

The role provides planning and financial support to the Corporate Finance Team. The role will help deliver the annual business plan as well as provide support and value add reporting to Business partnering finance teams.

**The role**

The Finance Analyst works within the Corporate Finance team to complete the following:

- Analyse financial data, including budgets, revenue, expenses, and cash flow, and provide insights to support business decisions
- Prepare reports, presentations, and other materials to communicate financial analysis results to senior management and other stakeholders
- Work closely with other departments to gather financial data and ensure accuracy and completeness of financial information.
- Monitor key performance indicators and metrics and make recommendations for improvement.
- Identify potential financial risks and opportunities and provide recommendations to mitigate risks and capitalise on opportunities.
- Provide financial support for various projects and initiatives, including business planning & capital expenditure analysis.
- Providing input into business packs and materials to prepare and inform business cases.
- Utilise available data and manipulation software to supplement and enhance existing reporting, analyses, and processes. This will be reactively driven by business requests and proactively driven by your own focus on continuous improvement.
- Create and update relevant financial models to provide commercial insights to ensure the existing business and processes are optimised and recent product, partner, and distribution opportunities are effectively considered.
- Understand financial implications and risks (including mitigation) of performance, projects, initiatives, and contracts.

**What experience you’ll bring**

**Essential**
- Analytical, Commercial & Financial Ability
- 2-3 years’ experience in an analytical role in a comparable organization environment
- Analytical skills; Excellent numeric and financial literacy, demonstrable higher-level ability in reporting, a high level of problem solving, high attention to detail and capabilities in data analysis and statistical methods for analysis and reporting on key trends and outcomes.
- Advanced excel skills and ability to use complex formulas and visualisation to present data in a clear and concise manner.
- Good experience and capabilities with data manipulation tools (ideally TM1, SAS, Big Query, SQL, Power BI, PowerPivot etc) is highly desirable, although the ability and desire to learn is the prerequisite.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Relationship Building & Communications
- Ability to build effective relationships.
- Strong presentations skills, the ability to engage at senior levels within the organisation and influence internal and external relationships to gain commitment
- A high level of self-awareness and personal effectiveness with impeccable work ethic.
- Strong team player in support of an inclusive team culture
- Ability to work in a matrix environment, able to work both alone and in various multi-disciplinary teams.
- Capability to closely align with and support internal and external customers whilst maintaining complete integrity and adequate independence.

**Preferred**
- Formal qualifications in a relevant area and CA/CPA accreditation or demonstrable intent to achieve this.
- Curiosity and a desire to explore and develop yourself and enhance the business around you.
- Specific experience in the Banking, Finance & Insurance and /or Technology industry and associated understanding and knowledge of the current and emerging regulatory, commercial, technology and operational trends (highly desirable but not essential).

**Toowong**

Close to a variety of public transport and easy parking options, the Toowong office has excellent end of trip facilities (including secure bike storage and showers), outdoor spaces and plenty of modern collaborative areas to work and connect with colleagues.

Conveniently based at Toowong Village tower with views of the mountains and the Brisbane River, our location is only 4 km from the city and provides access to retail, restaurants and other amenities.

**The benefits of working at A&G;**
- **Be rewarded**:

- we recognise high performance and reward our people for their hard work through bonuses and other perks.
- **Work flexibility
- **with options to work from home two days per week.
- **Options for leave**:

- life happens, so we’ve got volunteer days, an additional paid ‘ME’ day, paid parental leave and the opportunity to purchase additional leave to cover all of the big stuff.
- **Grow with us**:

- we’ve got learning and professional development opportunities to suit everyone.
- **Give back**:

- our A&G; Difference program gives you the power to change our community for the better through volunteering, fundraising and donation opportunities for causes that yo Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3qn3li