Finance Team Leader & Planning

Job Description

About Our Client Our client is a leading organisation serving a diverse and rapidly growing community in Victoria. They are responsible for delivering essential services to both residential and commercial customers. This is a well-known Melbourne-based business. Job Description The Finance Team Leader & Planning role will lead on: People Leadership Through strategic leadership and oversight: Provide exceptional commercially focused leadership in the Financial Planning and Analysis team. Drive commercial thinking and rigour in collaboration with the Commercial Manager and CFO. Lead and apply best practice coaching techniques to maximise the potential of the team, both in capacity and capability. Drive/promote mindset change across the section, creating and maintaining a culture of high performance. Commercial Capability & Strategic Advice Improve commercial capability across the team. Provide trusted value to stakeholders by bringing financial insights, analysis, and strategic thinking. Drive a Total Expenditure view of Investment spend to fully understand the impact to the Enterprise of the decision. Uplift the business to improve financial acumen and drive a financially sustainable mindset. Identify and manage risks and benefits associated with implementing business strategies and plans, including understanding the financial implications. Lead and prepare the financial modelling for the enterprise Financial Plan and scenario analysis. Lead and prepare financial analysis to understand our cost optimisation opportunities, financial performance, and insights. Proactively lead on complex problems and develop understanding and insights to support the business, i.e., develop financial modelling and analysis if required. Stakeholder Management Establish and maintain strong and enduring relationships across the senior leadership team, seeking to identify collective needs/requirements and working together to achieve Enterprise strategic outcomes. Proactively collaborate across the business to support and influence commercial decisions with consideration of strategic, fiscal, and compliance impacts. Develop and continuously improve a centralised approach for planning (Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Planning) owned and managed by the Financial Planning and Analysis team. Reporting and Governance Experience leading on the Corporate Plan and Reporting. Responsible for the team and delivery of the Regulatory reporting for the group. Deliver continuous improvement of Enterprise reporting to generate insights and action towards Enterprise strategy and targets. Develop improved reporting through self-service options (i.e., Power BI dashboards). Support development of frameworks for the financial governance of Business cases, across Finance and other functions. The Successful Applicant The ideal candidate will demonstrate: CA/CPA Qualified. Strong financial management experience within a complex corporate environment or commercial aspects of running a government business enterprise or private sector utility with understanding of the regulatory and authorising environment. Experience leading the Corporate plan and managing organisational change. Strong influencing and leadership skills to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships. Track record in previously leading a Finance team. High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results orientation. What's on Offer The Finance Team Leader & Planning role will pay in the range of $130,000 - $140,000 base + super. The offices are located in the Western suburbs and provide flexible working. #J-18808-Ljbffr