Finance Manager, Property Finance

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Group Corporate Services Property Finance Team partner with Group Corporate Services (GCS) provide advice on financial management and strategy related to the Group’s property portfolio, and property related projects. The role also partners with all areas of CommBank to provide insight and analysis related to the costs associated with the Group Corporate Services.

See yourself in our team

The Group Corporate Services team is part of Group Operations Finance, partnering with senior leadership and supporting the work of the Chief Operations Office. This team manages the end-to-end finance functions for these businesses, providing strategic support, financial and management reporting and collaborating regularly with other Business Unit and Group Finance teams throughout the organisation.

Role Responsibilities:

• Key business partner for Group Corporate Services, specifically managing the Group’s property costs (P&L $1bn).
• Management reporting for the property business including reporting to GCS business, Group Finance, and various Business Units within the Bank.
• Ensuring month end deliverables are completed for example, variance analysis including vs budget/forecast, journals, Balance Sheet reconciliations, preparation of monthly reporting packs, and all other month end requirements.
• Prepare bottom-up plan builds and ongoing forecasting of the Group’s property costs and demonstrated an ability to work with large sets of data across various sources.
• Manage, review processes and deliverables prepared and produced from support staff, on a monthly and ad-hoc basis.
• Routine activities in CBA including Plan transfers, GL Hierarchy changes and other items that may arise.
• Opportunity for involvement in the development and adoption of a new property IT platform and helping drive the change in the shape of the way that we work.
• Drive a productivity and innovation culture and identify and deliver on opportunities for business and process improvements.
• Other ad hoc items and projects as required.
• Adhere to the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct sets the standards of behaviour, actions and decisions we expect from our people.

We are interested in hearing from people who possess:

• CA (Chartered Accountant) or CPA qualified
• Strong business partnering skills and demonstrated ability to manage and influence stakeholders.
• High degree of commercial acumen
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills to manage a large portfolio and large datasets in Excel
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, and self-motivated to develop and grow skillsets.
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables and meet deadlines
• Ability to continuously challenge and innovate in your role
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint), PeopleSoft, Oracle, and use of data visualization tools welcome. Experience in visualization tools welcome (Tableau, PowerBI).

Risk Mindset – All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss, and act on current and future risks.

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