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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Bank) is Australia's leading provider of integrated financial services. They are committed to continuously improving governance practices and ensuring that they are aligned with business, stakeholders and customers’ needs.
In Financial Services, we support the Group’s strategy of building tomorrow’s bank today for our customers, through a focus on three key priorities of trust, resilience and capital generation. Financial Services partner with all areas of CommBank to specialist advice, support and services in finance, audit, treasury, property, procurement, climate strategy and investor relations.
Technology delivers the Group’s information technology functions to ensure the highest levels of customer service through world-class process excellence and technology innovation.
See yourself in our team
Technology Finance is responsible for the provision of financial control and management services to the Technology division. We work closely with our stakeholders to help them understand their technology costs and deliver current and future strategic and financial plans.
Your team forms part of the wider Tech Finance Team of approximately 90 people and provides business partnering and financial management services to Technology and Business Unit CIOs.
Your team’s primary role is to:
- Support Technology leadership team with Finance management
- Provide insights, analysis and advice in relation to past and future financial performance
- Provide robust financial control and effective management reporting
- Provide decision support and reporting for Technology strategic initiatives and investment programs
- Develop and deliver meaningful insights to drive better business outcomes and provide commercial support, including cost optimisation and simplification
- Provide guidance and advice to the business leaders on the financial performance of the business, the financial plans and forecasts and the financial impacts of change initiatives
Technology Finance’s mission is to “influence strategic outcomes through transparent insights and passionate people”.
Do work that matters
As a Senior Manager Business Partner supporting various Technology business within Business Banking Technology space, you will be contributing to the business priorities by providing insight and supporting stakeholders with financial outcomes related to expense management and commercials of Technology.
To deliver on outcomes, you will have effective relationships across the broader Technology Finance team, as well as other teams across Financial Services (incl. Group Finance).
We’re interested in hearing from people who will aspire to
- Being responsible for business partnering to the Business Bank Technology leadership team with an spend of +$0.5b
- Preparing and presenting to senior audiences on monthly results including actionable insights, IT volume trends and drivers of cost, project spend and forecast.
- Managing 2 staff providing FP&A activities including budgeting, forecasting, month end close, variance analysis. Indirectly leading the wider Retail Technology Finance team
- Analyzing of drivers of consumption and working with other finance teams to understand their application consumption
- Being a commercial support for key IT vendor contracts including reviewing financial models and business cases.
- Demonstrating intellectual curiosity and the ability to build deep knowledge of the business being supported including cost base and underlying cost drivers
- Identifying and driving Technology Finance continuous improvement initiatives
- Being able to identification and escalation of issues to ensure appropriate risk management and financial control practices are in place
- Ability to constructively challenge team and stakeholders as and when required
- Creating a strong team culture, and build and maintain productive relationships with Finance and Non-Finance stakeholders
Other qualities you may possess include
- People management experience and ability to prioritise and manage workload, leveraging staff, experience in uplifting team performance, providing constructive feedback and the development of staff and team culture
- Strong stakeholder management skills with proven experience in advising and influencing senior stakeholders and business outcomes;
- Effective verbal and written communication skills including presenting to senior management and leadership teams
- Strong commercial, accounting and financial management experience including financial modelling and understanding of operational business drivers;
- Knowledge of the financial services and / or technology industry, including technology developments that are impacting Financial Services.
Working with us means
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you. At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. Read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity on our website.
Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to send in your application. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank.
At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.
We’re determined to make a real difference for Australia’s first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you’re already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including BankWest), you’ll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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