Senior Consultant, Management Reporting

Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?

At MLC Life Insurance, we’re proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We’re Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world’s leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group. 

We’re driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that’s a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.

We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We’re a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
 

The Role

Reporting into the Senior Finance Manager for Business Planning, Forecasting and Reporting, the Senior Consultant, Management Reporting (FP&A) will see you responsible for the consolidation of financial information and data to report on key financial metrics and business drivers that will impact profitability outcomes to the MLC Life Insurance Leadership Team.

Your role includes but is not limited to coordinating and contributing financial input, creation, and production of critical reports such as the CEO reports to our Board, monthly flash report, monthly management results (profit, capital, value), quarterly forecasting, quarterly business review and other ad-hoc reporting requirements. You will also be supporting the production of weekly distribution reporting with insights on sales and other lead sales indicators for the wider business.

About you
You possess a minimum of 4+ years of Management Reporting or financial planning and analysis and/or business forecasting experience in a similar capacity within the insurance sector ideally.

As a CA/CPA with prior experience in the Insurance sector, you possess the understanding and nuances of the lifecycle of the business, providing you with the knowledge of working together with our actuarial teams to derive data and numbers from various sources. 

With strong financial and commercial acumen, your ability to develop reporting and dashboards for various group of stakeholders will enable you to produce meaningful insights for our Executive Leadership team that will influence and drive key decision making processes.

Lastly, you possess a continuous improvement mindset and have an eye for process improvements to increase efficiency and the quality of your output.

Bringing our best to life - why join us?

• We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
• We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
• We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
• We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
• We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
• We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.

Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.