AddressAbout the Opportunity
Reporting directly to the Finance Director, you will play a pivotal role in delivering profitable and sustainable growth for services. You will work with business areas to challenge assumptions, influence decisions, and make recommendations for efficiency improvements in order to sustain growth.
This is a great opportunity to work closely with contract directors and managers across all business units to have help improve financial insights.
What you’ll be doing
- Providing guidance on contract/service performance including ROI, scenario planning, and KPI analysis
- Driving contract/service cost optimisation projects through profitability analysis and efficiency recommendations
- Developing customer relationships to support successful commercial and financial negotiations regarding variable revenue, rebids, and change notices
- Providing contract/service pricing, cash and margin optimisation recommendations, ensuring an acceptable balance of risk and return
- Supporting business leaders to deliver contractual obligations through identification of over and under delivery, performing root cause analysis, and making recommendations
- Providing challenge and decision support for organic growth and new business, drawing upon the commercial team, as appropriate
About you
You are an innovative finance professional, with highly effective organisational skills. You are passionate, driven and demonstrate high integrity in everything you do.
Your ideal skills & experience
- Hold a professional qualification and professional body membership (CA, CPA or equivalent)
- Good experience working in a Finance role with a strong commercial focus
- Experience in successfully collaborating with business leaders in a complex business environment
- Experience of adding value in a commercially orientated bidding or contracting environment
- Ability to understand, interpret and convey the requirements of customer contracts and enterprise agreements
- Ability to highlight problems, offer innovative and practical solutions, and drive through execution
This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes an Australian police check as an essential selection component for this role.
Serco requires employees in this role to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. Please consider this requirement when submitting your application.
About us – Impact a Better Future
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone has a vital role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000+ globally and 14,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including Defence, Justice and Immigration, Transport, Healthcare, Facilities Management and Citizen Services. To learn more please visit www.serco.com/aspac
Why Join Us
- You’d be joining a company that delivers essential public services (in partnership with governments) that impact a better future for communities, and those in our care
- You’ll get to have an impact on how we do things: Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers and action.
- We invest in you: Accelerate your career through our learning and development opportunities – think skills based training, defined career pathways and fantastic internal mobility opportunities across the group!
If you are inspired to make a positive difference, please apply now.
For more information about this job opening, please email Vanessa at **********@serco-ap.com. Please be advised that we do not accept applications via email. All prospective applicants are required to apply and participate in our formal recruitment process.
Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day. We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
