Commercial Finance Manager

DMC Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 196,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

DMC Recruitment client is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to sit in Asset Management and drive financial rigour behind a capital program exceeding $1B. You will own forecasting, risk tracking, and month-end processes, partnering with Ops/technical teams to build robust business cases for project funding.

The role requires hands-on involvement across forecasting, reporting, and governance, with exposure to regulated infrastructure environments valued but not essential.

Qualifications

• Proven business partnering experience with Ops/technical teams, ideally in a capital-intensive environment.
• Confidence operating across a large, matrixed stakeholder group.
• Strong forecasting and financial modelling skills at both project and portfolio level.
• Experience with risk register management and P50/P90 concepts.
• Hands-on involvement in month-end processes, not just reviewing outputs.
• Business case development experience — you can build the financial case that gets funding approved.
• Exposure to regulated network/infrastructure environments and an understanding of the regulatory framework is highly valued, though not essential.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio forecasting across capex and cash.
• Owning risk and opportunity tracking, including the project risk register (P50/P90).
• Applying a solid understanding of project lifecycle, estimation process, and estimate maturity.
• Managing to a budget envelope — identifying levers, navigating governance and approvals.
• Hands‑on involvement in monthly close: reviewing transactions for the business unit, informing accruals, feeding group reporting.
• Building repeatable, timely reporting and insight for leadership and Exec — and improving it as needs change.
• Acting as finance lead on business case development to secure project funding.

Skills

Forecasting

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Month-end close

Business case development

Tools

Project accounting ERP

Financial reporting systems

Job description

Our client is a major infrastructure business running a capital program exceeding $1 billion. They're looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to sit inside Asset Management and drive the financial rigour behind that spend.

What you'll be doing:

• Portfolio forecasting across capex and cash
• Owning risk and opportunity tracking, including the project risk register (P50/P90)
• Applying a solid understanding of project lifecycle, estimation process, and estimate maturity
• Managing to a budget envelope — identifying levers, navigating governance and approvals
• Hands‑on involvement in month‑end close: reviewing transactions for the business unit, informing accruals, feeding group reporting
• Building repeatable, timely reporting and insight for leadership and Exec — and improving it as needs change
• Acting as finance lead on business case development to secure project funding

What you'll bring:

• Proven business partnering experience with Ops/technical teams, ideally in a capital‑intensive environment
• Confidence operating across a large, matrixed stakeholder group
• Strong forecasting and financial modelling skills at both project and portfolio level
• Experience with risk register management and P50/P90 concepts
• Comfort being hands‑on in month‑end processes, not just reviewing outputs
• Business case development experience — you can build the financial case that gets funding approved
• Exposure to regulated network/infrastructure environments and an understanding of the regulatory framework is highly valued, though not essential

If you've got finance business partnering experience in infrastructure, utilities, or another capex-heavy environment, and you want a role with real proximity to how a $1B+ program gets delivered, we want to hear from you.

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Additional information

• Long-term career prospects
• Excellent employee benefits
• Circa $230,000 Package + Bonus