Finance Business Partner

• Location 9 Sherwood Road,Toowong, QLD, 4066,Australia
• Job Category Professional
• Manage Others No
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Join our talented team as Finance Business Partner for Product, Alliances & Innovation! Drive financial leadership, strategy, analysis, and insights to optimise performance in an inspiring, ambitious, and rapidly growing business.

About us

At Auto & General (A&G), we provide great products and services to safeguard our customers in their time of need. Our range of general insurance products protect customers on the road, at home and on holiday with various Car, Motorcycle, Home, Contents, Life, Travel, Pet products as well as Roadside Assistance.

Our culture of 'high performance with high integrity' underpins our values and the way we interact with our customers, the community and each other. We're excited about the future and we're always on the lookout for talented, passionate individuals who can help us achieve our goal of being Australia's best insurer! If this sounds like you, apply today.

Purpose of the Role

The 'Finance Business Partner - Product, Alliances, & Innovation' informs and supports key performance delivery and execution across the Product Division (Product, Pricing and Underwriting) and within the Growth Ops Division (Innovation and Alliances) to play a key part in the Corporate Finance purpose of supporting and driving profitable growth throughout A&G. The Product division spearheads exceptional profitable growth year-on-year through market-leading pricing and product design and underwriting excellence, and this role is pivotal to ensure it can continue doing so. The Alliances department oversees our products that leverage the excellence of our Alliance partners in Product or services.

Position Accountabilities

• Provide financial leadership to the business with input, leadership and recommendations on strategic direction, commercial constructs, business cases and divisional initiatives.
• Create and update relevant financial models to support new and ongoing business initiatives with a focus on driving process improvements and commercial insights. Providing input into business packs and materials to prepare and inform business cases.
• Ensure the delivery of financial and managerial reports and analysis to internal stakeholders, this specifically includes the production, analysis and actioning of monthly management, operational and Board reporting as required.
• Identifying performance opportunities through analysis and interpretation and providing clear insights to the Product Director and leadership teams. This includes daily, weekly, and monthly results as relevant to understand and drive performance as well as ad hoc analysis and reporting requests as required.
• Driving the planning and forecasting processes for the Growth Ops Division providing adequate rigour and challenge to ensure alignment with strategy.
• Seek and lead process improvement from an operating rhythm perspective within the team and division, and across the wider business.
• Understand financial implications and risks (including mitigation) of performance, projects, initiatives, contracts and educate key stakeholders on these, including translation to operational results.
• Liaise with key stakeholders with the support teams, the broader Finance community and Customer & Data teams and the wider business to ensure effective delivery of key objectives.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• At least three years’ experience in a senior finance role in a comparable organization environment with experience from a business engagement / advisory perspective (business partnering / commercial manager etc)
• Technically strong commercial mind with excellent systems & software capability.
• Formal qualifications in a relevant area and CA/CPA accreditation
• A high level of self-awareness and personal effectiveness

Preferred

• Specific experience in the Banking, Finance & Insurance and /or Technology industry and associated understanding and knowledge of the current and emerging regulatory, commercial, technology and operational trends.
• Experience of driving performance, enhancements and innovation through engagement and challenge.
• Familiar with TM1, PowerBI or similar analytics tools
• Location - Our office is conveniently based in Toowong Village shopping centre - a city fringe location with easy access to retail, restaurants, various parking options and public transport. Alternately, our North Lakes and Kawana sites have secure free parking and access to transport.
• Extra leave - Enjoy additional leave days on us! You'll receive a paid 'ME' day and one paid volunteer leave day annually. Team members can also purchase up to two additional weeks of leave per year.
• Paid parental leave - We support our new parents with paid parental leave and other benefits.
• Workplace giving - If you're passionate about a cause, then we are too - we will dollar match your donations to registered charities.
• Development opportunities - We're championing your development with internal programs and access to a wide range of online courses.
• Employee discounts - You'll receive discounts on Budget Direct insurance products.
• Reward and recognition - We reward high performance with employee recognition, reward and incentive schemes.
• Onsite facilities - There are excellent end-of-trip facilities on offer and private spaces for nursing mothers.
• Get social - Join our vibrant social and community activities including annual celebrations, family fun days and regular events across each of our sites.

Auto & General values individual differences and believes in fostering an inclusive culture that creates a great place to work for all.

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