Senior Manager, Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis

Cuscal Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

IGNITE program recognises individual &

Cuscal Advantage discounts

Job summary

Cuscal is seeking a Senior Manager, Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis to lead the organisation’s planning, forecasting and reporting. You will design and run a single, integrated FP&A operating model and drive performance insights for executives.

You will coordinate Group forecasts across ANZ, own the reporting cadence, and partner with multiple finance functions to deliver high-quality analytics and strategic guidance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Enterprise/Group central FP&A or equivalent finance leadership role.
• Proven ability to lead planning, forecasting, budgeting and management reporting.
• Strong modelling and analytics to support executive decision-making.
• Experience with complex organisations and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance management.
• Maintain central planning assumptions including inflation, FX and cost drivers.
• Coordinate inputs into a single Group forecast across ANZ entities.
• Own Group forecast consolidation and statutory adjustments.
• Drive integration of acquisitions into the planning framework.
• Lead monthly performance reporting to Board and executives.
• Develop high-quality models, analytics and decision-support materials.

Skills

Financial modelling

Budgeting

Forecasting

Management reporting

Business partnering

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Workday

TM1

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

At Cuscal, our Commercial and Business teams are the backbone of our organisation. From supporting clients and driving growth to ensuring compliance, managing finances, and fostering a positive workplace culture, our people play a vital role in achieving our commercial objectives while staying true to our values.

If you’re looking for a role where your skills and ideas make a real impact, join us to help shape the future of payments in Australia.

The Senior Manager, Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis is responsible for leading Cuscal's enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, performance management, and management reporting activities. Acting as the central point of integration across the organisation, the role ensures the business operates from a single, aligned view of financial performance, outlook, risks and opportunities.

The role designs, builds and leads Cuscal's central FP&A operating model, establishing the processes, governance, systems, reporting cadence and analytical frameworks that underpin effective decision-making.

It coordinates and consolidates planning and reporting activities across business units, functions and geographies. Through strong leadership, coordination and continuous improvement, the role builds the capability, tools and operating discipline that allow the broader FP&A function to deliver high-quality insights and support the achievement of Cuscal's strategic objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Cuscal's enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance management processes
• Own and maintain central planning assumptions, including inflation, FX, wage growth, cost drivers, timing assumptions, and other Group-wide inputs
• Coordinate inputs across Business Unit Finance, Strategic Finance, Investments, Pricing, Product, Procurement and other contributors into a single Group forecast
• Partner with Strategic Finance team to ensure alignment between near, medium, and long-range planning
• Own Group forecast and analysis consolidation across Australian and New Zealand entities, including intercompany recharges and statutory adjustments
• Drive integration of acquisitions into single planning framework and financial narrative
• Own the Group FP&A operating mechanisms, including planning processes, reporting cadence, governance and templates
• Lead budget, forecast, month-end, Board and management reporting cycles across the Group
• Coordinate statutory and management forecasts across business units, functions and entities
• Lead monthly performance reporting and communication of financial results, risks and opportunities to Board and management
• Develop high-quality models, analysis, reporting and decision-support materials for executives and stakeholders
• Develop analytics across revenue, costs, margins, investment, workforce and operational performance
• Lead automation, standardisation and continuous improvement of FP&A processes

Experience:

• 10+ years in Enterprise/Group central FP&A, commercial finance
• 5+ years leading a finance partnering team or material finance workstream in a complex organisation
• Excellent knowledge of accounting and financial principles and practices
• Excellent knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and scenario/risk analysis
• Strong financial modelling and management reporting experience
• Experience delivering high-quality Board papers and executive management reporting
• Advanced Excel skills and PowerPoint skills
• Experience driving automation for FP&A processes
• Payments, banking, financial services, or APRA-regulated environment
• Experience supporting integration, transformation, or operating model change
• Experience with reporting & planning systems such as Workday, TM1
• Strong financial modelling, consolidation, and reporting capability
• Process design, automation, and change leadership
• Demonstrated people leadership, coaching and capability building skills, including navigating ambiguity and change

Why Cuscal?

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all. Here, you’ll deliver ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves. You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams. And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow.

You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• Work in a hybrid model that supports your lifestyle and goals
• We celebrate success: Our IGNITE program recognises individual and team achievements.
• Wellbeing focus: We support your physical, mental, and financial health with holistic initiatives and access to discounts via ‘Cuscal Advantage.’

Cuscal is an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment and a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with a disability, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.