At a Glance
- Tasks: Transform financial data into insights for better decision-making and reporting.
- Company: Established Australian disability and community services provider.
- Benefits: Competitive $120,000 package, hybrid work, and exposure to senior management.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career growth and skill development in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact in the community services sector.
- Qualifications: Degree in commerce or finance, with 2+ years in commercial finance.
The predicted salary is between 108000 - 132000 $ per year.
Broad exposure across performance reporting, FP&A and commercial analysis.
Permanent full-time role | Hybrid, Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
The Opportunity
Our client is a well established Australian disability and community services provider. Reporting to the Finance Manager, with exposure to the Financial Controller, CFO and Senior Management Team, this role will turn financial and operational data into timely reporting and insight that helps leaders make better decisions. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong data skills and initiative who enjoys explaining the numbers to finance and non-finance stakeholders, and who wants broad exposure across reporting, planning, commercial analysis and the month end close.
The Challenge
- Preparing month end performance reporting by stream, program and entity, and explaining variances to budget and forecast.
- Producing weekly reporting on financial and non-financial drivers such as hours delivered, utilisation, occupancy and labour cost.
- Supporting the annual budget and regular reforecasts, including maintaining models and reviewing submissions from operational managers.
- Building service costing models for tenders, new services and pricing reviews, reflecting award costs, on costs, NDIS pricing and overheads.
- Preparing business cases and benchmarking performance against external measures.
- Assisting with month end close tasks such as accruals, prepayments, journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
The Expertise
Please consider expressing interest in this position if you possess the following:
- Degree in commerce, business, accounting or finance, with CA/CPA (completed or in progress) desirable.
- 2+ years’ experience in commercial finance, FP&A or management reporting.
- Strong Excel skills, with experience building and maintaining financial models.
- Solid accounting knowledge and an understanding of the P&L and its non-financial drivers.
- Experience in disability, aged care, NDIS or other labour intensive services, or in costing for tenders, would be valued.
- Clear communication skills, including with non-finance audiences, and a continuous improvement mindset.
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