Finance Business Partner

[axr] Recruitment & Search; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

axr Recruitment & Search in Sydney is assisting a well-funded infrastructure client in a scale-up phase to find a Senior FP&A partner. Reporting to the Head of FP&A, you will partner with the CTO and technology leadership to translate design decisions into financial outcomes, delivering budgeting, forecasting and commercial insight.

You will model capex and opex, track depreciation and unit costs, support negotiations, and own the month-end close for technology and operations, providing clear

Qualifications

• 10+ years in FP&A, commercial finance or business partnering.
• Strong technical accounting; Big 4 background preferred.
• Experience in asset-intensive sectors such as infrastructure, telco, energy or technology.
• Advanced modelling and Excel skills; Power BI and ERP experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CTO and technology leadership on budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Model the capex and opex impact of projects and prepare investment cases.
• Track capital spend, depreciation and key unit cost metrics.
• Support supplier negotiations, benchmarking and FX analysis.
• Review and determine the accounting treatment of technology contracts.
• Own the month-end review for technology and operations.
• Deliver clear, commercially focused executive reporting.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Financial modelling

Variance analysis

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Education

CA or CPA qualification

Tools

Power BI

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

About the Company

Our client is a well-funded infrastructure business in a significant scale up phase, with a long-term national development pipeline ahead of it.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of FP&A, you will be the day-to-day finance partner to the CTO and the technology and engineering team. This role sits where technical design decisions become financial outcomes, providing the modelling, insight and commercial support that shapes how it operates its infrastructure. You will need the credibility to engage engineers and to constructively challenge their assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CTO and technology leadership on budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.


• Model the capex and opex impact of projects and prepare investment cases.


• Track capital spend, depreciation and key unit cost metrics.


• Support supplier negotiations, benchmarking and FX analysis.


• Review and determine the accounting treatment of technology contracts


• Own the month-end review for technology and operations.


• Deliver clear, commercially focused executive reporting

Skills & Experience

• CA or CPA qualified, with 10+ years in FP&A, commercial finance or business partnering.


• Strong technical accounting skills; Big 4 or financial accounting background highly regarded.


• Experience in an asset-intensive sector such as infrastructure, telco, energy or technology.


• Advanced modelling and Excel skills, plus Power BI and ERP experience.


• Commercially minded and autonomous, able to communicate from technical to executive level