Finance Analyst

Telstra; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra in Melbourne is seeking a Finance Analyst to join the Financial Management Chapter Area. You’ll deliver insight, financial planning, forecasting, and performance reporting within an Agile framework that prioritises value for stakeholders, customers and shareholders.

You’ll partner with business units to drive decision support, manage P&L, financial controls, and model the business to identify risks and opportunities while building trusted relationships across the organisation.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA qualification required.
• Experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, FP&A, management accounting or finance business partnering.
• Strong accounting fundamentals and financial analysis.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Growth mindset with problem-solving ability and continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end, forecasting and financial control activities with accurate P&L management and reporting.
• Use financial analysis and data-driven insights to evaluate performance and identify drivers, risks and opportunities.
• Provide commercial insights to support business cases and strategic initiatives.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and provide financial insight to support priorities.
• Own your work and contribute to management reporting and financial results for assigned areas.
• Continuously improve forecasting, planning processes and automation where possible.
• Stay across trends impacting financial and operational performance.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

CA or CPA qualification

Tools

Excel

Financial modelling

Job description

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

26 Sept 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Finance Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

We’ve adopted an Agile way of working to better prioritise the work that matters, match the right resources to the right work, and support our people’s development. It helps us move faster, stay aligned, and deliver more value to our business stakeholders, customers and shareholders.

This role sits within the Financial Management Chapter Area, a global team of around 400 finance professionals who partner with the business to deliver financial insight, strategic decision support and performance management across the organisation.

The role with us

As a Finance Analyst within our Financial Management Chapter Area, you will play a critical role delivering insight and driving change via our Agile way of working. While your role will vary from mission to mission, the capabilities and scope of our finance analysts do not.

Our Finance Analysts combine business partnering, financial management and analytical capability to help leaders make informed decisions. This includes financial planning, forecasting, performance reporting, commercial analysis, accounting support and strategic advice.

We support more than 40 missions across Telstra, creating opportunities to apply your skills in a wide range of business contexts while building broad commercial and finance experience.

This is how you’ll bring the purpose of your role to life:

• Support month-end, forecasting and financial control activities, ensuring accurate, timely and high-quality financial outcomes through effective P&L management, reporting and analysis.

• Use financial analysis, modelling and data-driven insights to evaluate performance, identify key business drivers, and uncover risks and opportunities.

• Provide commercial insights and recommendations that support business cases, investment decisions and strategic initiatives.

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, providing financial insight that supports strategic priorities and better business outcomes.

• Own your work and contribute independently to management reporting and financial results for assigned business areas.

• Continuously interrogate your work to ensure it adds value, automate where possible, eliminate low-impact tasks, and seek smarter ways of working.

• Bring a continuous improvement mindset to forecasting and planning, using best-practice approaches to enhance models and processes.

• Build subject matter expertise and stay across trends impacting financial and operational performance.

To be successful in the role, you should have:

• CA or CPA qualification

• Experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, FP&A, management accounting or finance business partnering.

• Strong accounting fundamentals, including financial reporting, balance sheet management, financial controls and financial analysis.

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and the ability to translate financial data into meaningful business insights.

• A growth mindset, strong problem-solving skills and the confidence to challenge assumptions and seek better ways of working.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and partner effectively across the business.

• A genuine interest in improving business performance through financial insight and commercial thinking

Highly regarded:

• Experience within a Big 4 or mid-tier professional services environment.

• Experience in a large, complex corporate organisation.

• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capabilities.

If you are dedicated to developing yourself, have a desire to always achieve more then we want to hear from you! Above all, you will bring enthusiasm and dedication to your job, are not afraid of hard work, and thrive off the satisfaction gained from achieving success in addressing and successfully overcoming challenges.

_ Telstra is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We’re also committed to flexibility and open to considering flexible ways of working for every role. _