FP&A Specialist - Budget Planning

Mercor; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Finance professional to own planning and forecasting processes. You will build annual budgets and long-range plans, consolidate results, and drive reforecasts across P&L, cash flow, and KPIs.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in FP&A with Advanced Excel modeling, and the ability to explain variances beyond pure calculation. Experience with planning software is a plus. This is a Sydney-based role focused on planning ownership rather than month-end close.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in FP&A at an operating company.
• Ability to explain a variance beyond calculation.

Responsibilities

• Build bottoms-up annual budgets with multi-year plans and consolidation.
• Produce rolling reforecasts of P&L, cash flow and KPIs.
• Develop headcount and capex plans with hiring pacing and prioritization.
• Create monthly management packs with variance commentary and profitability analyses.
• Forecast revenue from bookings and pipeline, documenting drivers and assumptions.

Skills

Advanced Excel modeling

Forecasting

Job description

About the work

We're building a high-quality library of corporate FP&A work products. You'll complete self-contained planning exercises from mock files (actuals, driver schedules, department budgets) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

What you'll do

• Build bottoms-up annual budgets and multi-year long-range plans with consolidation and approval paths.
• Produce rolling reforecasts of P&L, cash flow and KPIs reflecting actuals and updated drivers.
• Build headcount and capital expenditure plans with hiring pacing, project approvals, payback and prioritization.
• Produce monthly management reporting packs with variance commentary, and product, customer or segment profitability analysis with cost allocation methodology.
• Forecast revenue from bookings, pipeline coverage and demand signals, and document model drivers and assumptions.

You're a fit if you have

• 4+ years in FP&A at an operating company, owning a plan or a reforecast cycle.
• Advanced Excel modeling and the judgment to explain a variance, not just calculate it.

Nice to have

• Finance business partnering or commercial finance experience; planning systems such as Anaplan, Adaptive or Pigment.

Assessment

A rolling reforecast from mock actuals and drivers; a management reporting pack with variance commentary; a headcount and capital expenditure plan.

Note: we're looking for planning and forecasting ownership, not month-end close or controllership.