Finance Business Partner

Job description

SEEK has evolved from being a domestic online employment classifieds business, to the largest global online marketplace, operating in 19 countries.

Our reach includes Australia, New Zealand, China, Brazil, Mexico, South East Asia, Southern Africa, India and Bangladesh.

Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997, there are now over 6,000 people working for SEEK globally.

We believe the key to our success is creating a work environment which is challenging, rewarding and inclusive.

We are committed to making a difference to our community as well as to our company.

SEEK’s strategy is to match more candidates to opportunities than anyone else through using its marketplace scale to build a radically more efficient and effective marketplace.

A cornerstone of SEEK’s growth since its inception has been the quality of its people, its award-winning culture and strong commitment to its values.

This will continue to be at the core of ongoing success and growth for SEEK in all locations.

Formed from the recent merger of the two leading portals in the region, JobStreet.com and jobsDB, SEEK’s Asian operation now employs 1,500 people operating across 7 countries in South East Asian countries.

Operating across 7 countries in South East Asian countries, it now has ambitious growth plans that includes expanding its product set and customer base.

To support this, we are transforming our sales and service organization including moving to a more solution based selling approach, increasing use of digital channels and becoming more data driven.

Key Objective of Role

• Develop open, honest and trusted relationships across finance as well as business managers in order to deliver great outcomes for SEEK
• Work directly with the commercial teams to provide the financial insights necessary to evaluate new product introductions from an investment, costing, pricing, and margin perspective.
  
  
• Actively contribute to strategy and respond appropriately to risk mitigation and performance efficiencies.
  
  
• Using your financial modelling and communication skills, continually improve forecasting accuracy and relevance for the business
• Strong partner engagement and influencing skills with the Head of Departments to understand and articulate their business needs, consolidate into the strategic planning, and partner with them to provide insightful information.
  
  
• Work collaboratively within a Shared Service organization and all stakeholders on accounting, financial controls, and compliance.
  
  
• Build continuous improvements cross-function, streamline workflows, and ensure projects adhere to approved benchmarks.
  
  
• Manage existing processes and cadences, also establish outside the box thinking while influencing stakeholders across SEEK.
  
  
• Prepare, challenge and debate robust financial budgets, forecasts, and cost analysis that support business planning processes, including the delivery of business case scenario modelling, ‘what-if’ analysis, variance analysis, viability information, risks and opportunities analysis.
  
  
• Build and maintain product costing and forecasting models for new product launches

Who you are

The successful candidate will have:

• Hold CPA or equivalent
• Substantial experience within Finance at a mid/senior level.
  
  Pre-existing stakeholder management experience is a must.
  
  
• Minimum 5-10 years post qualifying experience with strong understanding of financial controls, accounting, reporting, FP&A and business partnering.
  
  
• High energy, responsive, detail oriented, and an experienced leader with strong communication, presentation, negotiation, analytical, operational, and people skills.
  
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, able to tell a story
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging work environment
• Experience in Power BI, Tableau, Workday and Oracle will be highly regarded
• Advanced Excel skill including Marco, Pivot, Index etc
• Ability to automate and streamline process
• Financial modelling for forecasting and budgeting

Candidate Values

• Leadership – strong vision and a purpose, you can inspire and influence others, encourage them to achieve it
• Agile – you can make yourself understood and are a good listener
• Strategic thinker – you can join the dots to take us from where we are to where we want to be, mapping clear routes and strategy to achieve our goals
• Result driven – aim to fix any issues the first time, and lead continuous improvements in the business
• Adaptable and organised

Core Competencies

• Finance all-rounder
• Strong technical capabilities with the ability to solve practical finance issues and problems
• Ability to interpret financial data, analyse results, assess trends and identify key issues
• Ability to identify risks & opportunities at an early stage
• Organized and efficient in approaching tasks, a self-starter with ability to problem solve and anticipate and avoid issues.
  
  
• Impeccable organization and efficiency skills; strong attention to detail
• Clear, concise, and articulate communication skills - verbal, written, and listening which allow you to deliver and craft high-quality presentations for senior executives and business partners
• Intellectual curiosity with a continuous improvement mindset
• Understand and influence business investment decisions through detailed financial analysis
• Interfaces with wide array of individuals, balances multiple tasks, and maintains positive attitude and energy.
  
  

Required Skill Profession

Audit, Taxes & Accounting, Corporate Finance & Strategic Planning