Commercial Finance Manager

Reporting to the Head of Finance Client Partnerships, this role is responsible for providing operational and strategic support to the Client Partnership division.

The primary objectives include driving cost and commercial transformation in client sales areas, ensuring excellence in engagement and deliverables within finance processes such as planning, forecasting, and investment management.

You will partner with the business in ensuring we are aligned with our strategic direction to drive long term profitability.

Responsibilities

Executive Business Partnering : Strategically and operationally partner with the Sales team to drive profitable growth, identify new business opportunities, and implement strategic transformation

Planning and Forecasting : Prepare the annual budget and quarterly rolling forecasts for the Client Sales division, participating broadly in the financial planning cycle

Budget Delivery : Inform, influence, and execute strategies within the Client Partnerships division to achieve cost budgets and drive profitable revenue growth.

Identify and pursue both cost and revenue opportunities

Stakeholder Engagement : Identify and manage stakeholders across the sales teams, addressing their needs, issues, and concerns to facilitate key decision-making and drive profitable revenue

Performance and KPI reporting : Define and continually evolve KPIs, performance reporting, and margin analysis.

Drive automation to create a future-fit and cost-effective information environment supporting decision making

Team Management & Development : Manage, develop, inspire and report on the team's performance.

Set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold them accountable

Capability Building : Identify and prioritise capabilities needed to meet current and emerging business needs.

Motivate team members to develop their capabilities

Who are you?

Strong communication, presentation skill and stakeholder management to optimise consumer value for the business

3+ years experience in a similar role

Strong commercial acumen & professional accounting competency

Excellent financial acumen, with experience in revenue and cost management, business case development, financial modelling, and partnering & influencing

Able to operate in the detail but also translate the numbers into a meaningful business story

Strong analytical with experience developing models to project performance

Strategic thinker and self-starter with a commercial approach to business

Resilient with an ability to manage competing deadlines

Benefits

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.

Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia.

Our benefits include :

Exclusively ours – Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family

Health & wellbeing – Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)

Time off – News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life : Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.

Helping you grow – Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion – focused education series) and recognition

Financial wellbeing – Support on making the most of your money

Perks & discounts – Exclusive offers across a range of products and services

Giving back – Make a difference to our communities.

Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents' rooms

Who are we?

News Corp Australia is the nation's most influential media organisation, operating more than 150 household-name brands across print, digital and multimedia.

We lead the way in travel, fashion, food, health, homes and lifestyle, and we are the largest publisher across print and digital, reaching more than 16 million Australians each month.

What's next?

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Category

Finance and Strategy

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