Senior Analyst - Finance Business Partnering

Sharp & Carter; North Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp & Carter in Sydney seeks a Senior Analyst to partner with project and operations leaders, owning budgeting, month-end and cash flow.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the role spans business partnering, management accounting and working capital, with monthly reviews, annual budgets, rolling forecasts and close processes. You’ll also work with an offshore team to ensure accurate billing and timely reporting.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA qualification.
• Experience in management accounting or business partnering, including budgets and forecasts.
• Ability to explain numbers to non-finance colleagues.
• Strong Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Meet project and operations managers each month to review revenue, costs, margin and cash on their projects, and help them see where the forecast is heading.
• Own the annual budget and rolling forecasts, including the models and assumptions behind them.
• Run month-end for the business: journals, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations and variance commentary.
• Look after cash: the cash flow forecast, debtors, collections and intercompany balances.
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with an offshore support team, including checking that billing goes out accurately and on time.
• Improve the reporting and fix the manual steps that slow the team down.

Skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Excel skills

Communication with non-finance

Business partnering

Education

CA or CPA qualification

Job description

Be the go-to finance person for project and operations leaders, with budgeting, month-end and cash flow all sitting with you.

A Sydney business that delivers its work through projects is looking for a Senior Analyst to partner with its operational managers. You’ll report to the Finance Manager and work across three areas that most analyst roles split up: business partnering, management accounting and working capital. If you’ve been doing one of these and want the whole picture, this role gives it to you.

About the Role:

Reporting into the Finance Manager, the key responsibilities include:

• Meet project and operations managers each month to review revenue, costs, margin and cash on their projects, and help them see where the forecast is heading
• Own the annual budget and rolling forecasts, including the models and assumptions behind them
• Run month-end for the business: journals, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations and variance commentary
• Look after cash: the cash flow forecast, debtors, collections and intercompany balances
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with an offshore support team, including checking that billing goes out accurately and on time
• Improve the reporting and fix the manual steps that slow the team down

About You:

To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess:

• CA or CPA qualification
• Big4 or Mid-Tier 1st or 2nd movers encouraged
• Experience in management accounting, commercial finance or business partnering, including budgets, forecasts and month-end
• Confidence explaining numbers to people who don’t work in finance
• Strong Excel skills