Hybrid Finance Analyst — Forecasting & Insights

Babcock International; Cockburn; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work policies

Wellbeing & defence leave

LinkedIn Learning & study leave

Employee discounts via beRewarded

Job summary

Babcock Australasia is seeking a Finance Analyst to support informed financial and commercial decision-making through accurate analysis, forecasting and insights. You will develop and maintain financial models to aid pricing, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management and profitability analysis.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across the business and monitor key financial metrics, delivering timely KPI information to program leaders and ensuring data integrity across systems.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining financial models and dashboards.
• Strong ability to analyse budgets, forecasts and actuals to identify trends and variances.
• Ability to explain commentary and insights to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financial models to support pricing, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management and profitability analysis.
• Analyse financial data from budgets, forecasts and actuals to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct variance analysis between actual results and budgets/forecasts with clear commentary.
• Collaborate with operational teams to gather financial inputs and understand business drivers.
• Monitor key financial metrics and flag risks and anomalies.
• Support budgeting/forecasting processes by consolidating inputs and validating assumptions.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of financial data across systems and reports.
• Support ad hoc financial analysis requests from project teams or business units.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial data analysis

Education

Accounting/Finance/Data analysis degree

Tools

Modelling tools

Job description

Babcock Australasia is seeking a Finance Analyst to support informed financial and commercial decision-making through accurate analysis, forecasting and insights. You will develop and maintain financial models to aid pricing, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management and profitability analysis.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across the business and monitor key financial metrics, delivering timely KPI information to program leaders and ensuring data integrity across systems.