Commercial Finance Analyst

• Newly created role
• High-growth financial services business
• Business Partnering

Commercial Finance Analyst opportunity for a growing and entrepreneurial financial services business with interests across asset management and non-bank lending.

This newly created position sits within the Group Finance team and reports to the Head of Commercial Finance, playing a central role in building out the organisation’s commercial finance and FP&A capability.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys working across FP&A, financial modelling, data analytics and business partnering, and wants genuine exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic decision-making.

The opportunity:

• Help build and shape a new group-wide FP&A and commercial finance function
• Work closely with the Head of Commercial Finance and CFO on budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning
• Develop financial models and scenario analysis to support business and capital allocation decisions
• Deliver insightful performance, variance and cash flow analysis
• Build dashboards and management reporting, including Power BI
• Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Treasury, Operations and Technology
• Contribute to strategic initiatives including funding, product expansion, M&A and distribution strategy
• Gain exposure across both asset management and non-bank lending
• Help leverage new systems, data and AI-driven approaches to improve finance reporting and productivity
• Significant scope to grow the role and broaden your remit as the function develops

About you:

We’re looking for a qualified finance professional with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience who brings a strong combination of analytical, commercial and communication skills.

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong FP&A, budgeting and forecasting experience
• Financial modelling capability and advanced Excel skills
• Experience working with large datasets and data analytics / BI tools, ideally Power BI
• Experience with Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, TM1 or a similar planning platform
• The ability to translate complex financial information into clear commercial insights
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering capability
• A curious, entrepreneurial mindset and genuine interest in improving how things are done
• Financial services experience is advantageous, but not essential

If you are interested in this opportunity, please reach out directly to Paddy Kelly at paddy.kelly@platinumpacificpartners.com.au.