Senior Associate BPB Finance - Business Lending

Senior Associate BPB Finance

Job no: 792875
Business unit: Finance
Primary position location: 395 Bourke St, Melbourne, VIC
Work type: Permanent Full time
Region: VIC- Melbourne CBD

• Exciting Opportunity to join the Business Lending Finance Team within B&PB Finance
• Drive consistency in reporting and processes
• Showcase your sound experience/exposure to Finance/Financial Services

It's more than a career at NAB. It's about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you'll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You'll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Associate to join our Business Lending Finance Team within department in the Business and Private Banking team. You will support and align with NAB's Finance Strategy to modernise Finance and seek opportunities to drive simplification and process efficiencies.

You will provide commercial financial insights, and analysis to drive and improve business performance of the BPB Business Lending product. This includes performance & budgeting & planning, and financial reporting/ control.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Assess, analyse, and investigate aspects of financial reporting of the Business Lending product's Finance Performance (Lending volumes, Net Interest Margin, Fee incomes, credit impairment charges), including understanding of variances to Business plan / forecast to ensure accurate reporting and the production of business financial insight for potential drivers of variances.
• Provide detailed financial analysis by using data analytical skills to enable the provision of commercial and financial advice, on both strategic and operational initiatives.
• Maintain strong balance sheet control and understanding through the review and sign off balance sheet reconciliations including ensuring aged balances are cleared and reconciliation breaks are clearly understood.
• Support half year and year end reporting periods reporting and disclosures.
• Support change initiatives by managing all financial impacts including validating / restatement of numbers, mapping of ledger and insight and taking actions to reduce key data gaps as required. Complete maintenance requests and support HFM changes as required.
• Run relevant product planning models to ensure business inputs and group assumptions are reflected.
• Maintain an understanding of group finance policy requirements and ensure compliance including identifying and addressing any areas of non-compliance.

What you will bring:

• Focused on driving commercial insights as well as delivering results.

• Able to synthesize information from multiple sources, build complex financial models, identify and synthesise key themes and communicate and influence effectively.
• Technically proficient in use of modelling and visualisation tools (e.g. Advanced Excel, PowerBI, etc.) as well as general ledger understanding (eg SAP) .
• Enjoys working collaboratively and building positive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Uncompromising drive, passion, focus, and energy to help innovate and drive change.
• Profound years of experience in Finance/Financial Services.
• Tertiary qualification required, ideally CA/CPA qualified.

By joining NAB and our Finance team, you are committing to putting our customers' needs first every time. You will be ambitious for growth; always curious and learning from colleagues. You will speak honestly, always valuing the time and opinion of others. You will own your work, doing what's right, even when it's hard.

NAB, invested in you

We are committed to gender equality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and have a diverse and inclusive workforce. We have committed $70bn in financing to help address climate change and provide 2 days of paid leave each year through our employee volunteering program to support community organisations.

We support our colleagues to be their best by offering a wide range of educational, financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits.

To avoid disappointment, you are encouraged to have a minimum of 18 months tenure in your current role and you should have your people leader's endorsement to apply and participate in the selection process.

Join NAB

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Let's explore who you are and what drives you. We'd love to share our vision for the future of banking.

To be eligible to apply, you must have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.

*Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

Advertised: 12 Mar 2024 6:00 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Closing: 19 Mar 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time