- Employment Type: Full time, fixed term position until December 2025
- Remuneration: $118k - $133k (depending on experience) + 17% super + leave loading
- Location: Kensington, NSW (Hybrid Working available)
About UNSW: UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged, and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.
Why your role matters: We're seeking a Finance Business Analyst practiced in modelling scenario analysis to bring their expertise to a HR project stream focused on compliance and service optimisation. Working in a collaborative team of finance professionals, you’ll support financial management activities across the project to achieve operational and strategic goals and deadlines. Your day-to-day will include:
- Development of financial modelling for compliance purposes, and scenario analysis and advice.
- Delivery of financial management activities across:
- planning
- forecasting
- reporting
- analysis activities
- Working collaboratively with your business area to create financial plans, report financial performance and monitor expenditure.
- Investigating of variances to budget and forecasts.
- Identifying, reporting and managing financial risks and opportunities
- Cost benefit analysis activities in the development of business cases.
- Providing guidance and support to stakeholders across financial processes and responsibilities.
The Finance Business Analyst position reports to the Finance Manager or Finance Lead for the client group and has no direct reports.
Skills and Experience summary: Holding substantial professional sector experience, you’ll be confident working independently across financial modelling and complex financial management and financial control processes You’ll bring the following skills and experience:
- Relevant qualifications (CA or CPA qualification or equivalent).
- Extensive working knowledge of analytical tools, in particular, a high level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and its application in financial modelling and analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to absorb information and utilise it to analyse, interpret and integrate data.
- Strong experience in core and complex financial management and financial control processes, insight driven analysis and modelling, providing accurate operational advice, and delivering financial services.
- Demonstrated ability to take a client-focused approach when analysing, interpreting and integrating large sets of data.
- Highly developed audience appropriate communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
- Practiced experience in presenting and engaging with stakeholders to support strategic financial decision making.
For further deals on role responsibilities and skills & experience required, refer to the position description found under the position listing on Jobs@UNSW
How to apply: If providing leadership and financial guidance across UNSW is of interest to you, please submit your CV, and Cover Letter via the APPLY button by Thursday 11:55pm 23 May. Applications will be considered as received in relation to relevant opportunities.
Please note: Sponsorship is not available for this role, valid Australian working rights are required on application.
UNSW Benefits and Culture: People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world. Our benefits include:
· Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc)
· Career development opportunities
· 17% Superannuation contributions, additional leave-loading payments and salary sacrifice.
· Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness passport )
Job queries contact: Katherine Molloy, Talent Acquisition Consultant
E: katherine.molloy@unsw.edu.au (applications to the address cannot be accepted, please apply online)
UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.
