Head Of Finance – Client Partnerships

What's the role?
Head of Finance - Client Partnerships
In the capacity of reporting to the General Manager of Commercial Finance - Client Sales and Product, this position is entrusted with the responsibility of providing operational and strategic business 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. Additionally, this role oversees the annual budget and planning cycle for the Client team while managing month-end routines for revenue and operating expenses.
Role Responsibilities

• Executive Business Partnering: Strategically and operationally partner with the Director of Sales and their leadership teams to drive profitable growth, identify new business opportunities, and implement strategic transformation.

Planning and Forecasting: Prepare the annual budget and quarterly and monthly 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 and fulfil their development plans.
Continuous Improvement and Adoption of Best Practices: Drive continuous improvements in partnering and broader finance processes.
Who are you?

• Planning and organising: Efficiently leads and organises tasks and activities to meet business objectives.

Action planning: Applies expertise to develop appropriate plans and execute necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
Data collection and analysis: Serves as the organisational authority in analysing data trends for use in reports to guide decision-making.
Assessment: Utilises expertise to analyse data from multiple sources, draw appropriate conclusions, and make suitable recommendations.
Compliance management: Acts as the organisational authority in achieving full compliance with applicable rules and regulations in management and/or operations.
Costing and budgeting: Demonstrates expertise in costing, budgeting, and financial planning.
Verbal communication: Acts as the organisational authority in using clear and effective verbal communication skills to express ideas, request actions, and formulate plans or policies.
Commercial acumen: Acts as the organisational authority and established expert to develop solutions based on an understanding of the business environment and objectives.
Behavioural Competencies:

• Financial & commercial acumen: Interprets and applies key financial indicators to facilitate better business decisions.

Manages complexity: Makes sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. Assembles many pieces of information into a cohesive and sophisticated understanding of complex issues.
Optimises work processes: Demonstrates knowledge of the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
Strategic mindset: Foresees future possibilities and translates them into key insights and actions.
Business insight: Applies knowledge of business, economy, and marketplace to advance the organisation's goals. Ensures the team understands and discusses relevant industry changes.
Balances stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders, providing guidance so that others understand and balance them appropriately.
Organisational savvy: Manoeuvres comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organisational dynamics.
Plans and aligns: Plans and prioritises work to meet commitments aligned with organisational goals. Stays focused on plans and improvises in response to changes, including risks and contingencies. Aligns the team's work with other workgroups'.
Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Encourages coworkers to work together as a team.
Builds effective teams: Establishes strong-identity teams that apply their skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Ensures the team has the right mix of skills and leverages individual strengths effectively.
Qualifications:

• CA/CPA qualified

Over 10 years of proven experience in FP&A and Commercial Finance positions
Experience managing senior stakeholders at all levels
Proven track record in building high-performing teams
Prior experience with TM1 or similar systems is preferred
News 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?
What's next?
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