Corporate Finance Analyst

Water Corporation; Hervey Bay; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Discounted private health insurance

Salary packaging

Employee assistance program

Retailer discounts

Job summary

Unitywater is seeking a Corporate Finance Analyst to deliver robust financial analysis, modelling and decision support for major infrastructure investments and funding strategies. You will partner with senior leaders to shape pricing, funding decisions and long‑term financial planning across the business.

This 12‑month max‑term secondment offers exposure to complex projects with hybrid work options, and requires CPA or CA with strong modelling and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Strong financial modelling and investment evaluation skills.
• Experience interpreting financial data to provide insights and recommendations.
• Ability to present complex financial information clearly and influence decisions.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop financial models and investment analyses for major business and funding decisions.
• Support long-term financial planning with forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Provide commercial insights and decision support across stakeholders.
• Contribute to pricing and revenue strategies and funding frameworks.
• Improve financial tools and reporting for better forecasting and decision‑making.

Skills

Financial modelling

Investment evaluation

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Problem solving

Proactive mindset

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Commerce/Finance, CPA/CA (or in progress)

Job description

• Influence funding, pricing and long-term financial sustainability decisions.
• Partner with leaders on high-impact infrastructure investment opportunities.
• Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.

• Influence funding, pricing and long-term financial sustainability decisions.
• Partner with leaders on high-impact infrastructure investment opportunities.
• Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.

About the role:

Are you passionate about financial modelling, investment analysis and influencing strategic decisions? As our Corporate Finance Analyst, you'll play a key role in helping shape Unitywater's long-term financial sustainability by providing robust financial analysis, modelling and decision support. Working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business, you'll help evaluate major investment opportunities, support pricing and funding strategies, contribute to long-term financial planning and provide insights that drive confident, evidence-based decision‑making.

This is an exciting 12-month max-term opportunity due to an internal secondment, you will gain exposure to complex infrastructure, corporate finance and strategic planning activities within an organisation that supports one of Australia's fastest‑growing regions.

In this role, you'll:

• Develop financial models and investment analysis that support major business, infrastructure and funding decisions across the organisation.
• Support Unitywater's long-term financial planning, helping ensure sustainable financial outcomes through forecasting, scenario analysis and strategic planning.
• Provide commercial insights and decision support, partnering with stakeholders to evaluate investment opportunities, assumptions, risks and business cases.
• Contribute to pricing and revenue strategies, supporting infrastructure funding frameworks, regulatory requirements and financial sustainability objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial tools and reporting, enhancing modelling capability, analysis, forecasting accuracy and decision‑making across the business

About you:

Our One Unitywater behaviours - Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:

Must have

• Tertiary qualifications in Commerce, Business, Finance or a related discipline, with CPA or CA qualification (or working towards).
• Strong financial modelling, investment evaluation and analytical skills, with the ability to assess opportunities, challenge assumptions and support business decision‑making.
• Experience interpreting financial and operational data to provide meaningful insights, recommendations and commercial outcomes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly and influence decision‑making.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities while delivering high‑quality outcomes.
• A proactive mindset, demonstrating initiative, sound judgement and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experience in corporate finance, financial planning and analysis, commercial finance or investment analysis environments.
• Experience developing financial models to support infrastructure, pricing, funding or investment decisions.
• Experience supporting long-term financial planning, forecasting, scenario modelling or business case development.
• Exposure to regulatory, pricing or revenue management frameworks.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders to support strategic decision‑making and financial sustainability initiative

Working at Unitywater:

• Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays. Tell us what this looks like for you!
• Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
• Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country experience, study assistance, and access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
• Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.

About us:

Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.

We think a pretty good job starts here.

Applications close: Midnight Sunday 13th September 2026

For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team at *******@unitywater.com

If you would like to speak to a team member about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please contact our Inclusion Specialist **********@unitywater.com

Unitywater respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways in which we live, work and operate, the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal peoples. We honour their enduring connection to these places and their deep cultural, spiritual and environmental knowledge and stewardship over the waterways that sustain us all. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, who hold the wisdom, traditions and stories of their people