Finance Analyst - Leasing Finance

SCENTRE GROUP LIMITED; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Leave

Paid parental leave

Free parking

Job summary

ScentreGroup is seeking a Leasing Finance Analyst to partner with the Leasing & Retail Solutions team and provide financial support to enable informed decision making. The role focuses on budgets, forecasts, and insights from rent data across multiple centres, with emphasis on timely deliverables and strategic analysis.

You will collaborate with operations and finance teams, presenting findings and driving continuous improvement in financial planning and performance reporting.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline.
• Proven budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance analysis experience.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across teams.
• Analytical skills with data interpretation and problem solving.
• Excellent communication, comfortable presenting to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Produce and review budgets, long-term forecasts, and bi-monthly forecasts for a portfolio of centres.
• Provide analytical support to stakeholders for strategic plans.
• Support leasing decisions with insights from gross rent data.
• Prioritise and deliver regular timetabled deliverables and ad hoc work.
• Contribute to Finance Plan on a Page initiatives to support strategic objectives.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication

Business partnering

Education

Tertiary qualification in Finance or related discipline

Tools

JDE

TM1

Excel

Job description

Your opportunity

Our Leasing Finance team plays a key role within our Operations Finance department, as finance business partners to our Leasing & Retail Solutions team. The Leasing Finance team supports commercial decisions and provides financial insights and analysis to our Leasing and Retail Solutions stakeholders.

As a Leasing Finance Analyst, you’ll be business partnering with the Leasing & Retail Solutions Team by providing financial support to facilitate decision making.

Day-to-day you willbe responsible for:

• Financial and Management Reporting - Produce and review accurate budgets, long term forecasts, bi-monthly forecasts for a portfolio of centres
• Stakeholder Engagement - Analytical support to internal and external stakeholders to deliver on strategic plan.
• Create Insights and Strategic Analysis - Provide numerical support for leasing decisions related to gross rent data across a portfolio of centres
• Managing deliverables - Prioritise work so that regular timetabled deliverables are delivered on time and are of a consistent quality while working on ad hoc work requested from Leasing Executives
• Innovation ‑Support the delivery of a range of Finance Plan on a Page initiative that help Scentre Group achieve its strategic objectives

This role is a full time permanent position.

What sets you apart

We are seeking a proactive, commercially minded professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and brings strong business partnering capability.

• Tertiary qualification in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline
• Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance analysis
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and partner across operational and finance teams
• Analytical capability with strong problem-solving and data interpretation skills
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence presenting to both financial and non-financial stakeholders
• Exposure to JDE, TM1, and advanced Excel skills highly regarded
• Strong commercial acumen and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

About us

ScentreGroup owns 42 Westfield destinations across Australia and New Zealand. We create extraordinary places and experiences that connect and enrich communities.

We are focused on our customers and creating more reasons for more people to visit our Westfield destinations more often and for longer.

With approximately 75 professions within our business, our team has theexpertiseto design, construct,operate,manageand market our Westfield destinations and platforms.

We want to be the place where talent thrives. To support you thriving with us, we promise to respect,inspireand develop you, and that you will do work that matters.

Diversity,equityand inclusionunderpinsour culture, and our vision is that ‘Everyone Belongs’.We foster a workplace experience where everyone feels valued, supported and motivated to realise their full potential.

We aspire to create a workforce reflective of the communities in which weoperateand encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation, genderidentityor life stage.If yourequiresupport or adjustments during the application process, please contact us confidentially at [e-mail].

We offer a range of unique benefits designed to support your wellbeing, career development and lifestyle, including five days paid Life Leave on top of your four weeks annual leave (pro-rated for part-time), 18 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave for primary carers, with no qualifying period and super paid for the duration of the leave period and free parking at your local Westfield destination.

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Applications close: 17th September 2026.