Senior Analyst, Group Financial Planning & Analysis

Join our Group Financial Planning & Analysis team as an experienced Analyst/Executive and get to work with a small specialist team within the broader Financial Management Group of Macquarie.

This truly exciting opportunity will provide you with the exposure to drive change across our Financial Management Group's forecasting, analysis and reporting processes, gain intensive experience to a wide range of issues affecting a financial institution with a broad business portfolio. Working closely with Macquarie Group's CFO and other Senior Macquarie leaders, this role provides you with the ability to build a strong technical skill set and a strategic, commercially focussed mind set.

Key responsibilities of the team include:

• Assisting in providing insightful, timely and commercial analysis to senior stakeholders, across both the Macquarie Group and its various components.
• Communicating to, persuading, and influencing a variety of cross-divisional stakeholders to achieve team objectives.
• Driving the implementation and utilisation of big data and business analytical software packages to develop and build interactive business intelligence capabilities.
• Establishing best practice principles and frameworks to embed data and analytical focussed application

You'll be a highly motivated and curious professional who is ready to take on the next challenge in your banking career.

To be successful in this role you will need to bring the following:

• Postgraduate accounting qualification - Chartered Accountant or equivalent professional qualification essential
• 2+ years appropriate post qualified experience in commerce or relevant experience in a Big 4 professional services organisation
• Relevant degree including accounting major but not essential
• Practical experience utilising large data sets and/or data focussed applications and analytical packages such as Power BI, Alteryx

Finally, you will:

• be curious, always asking, "What's new," and "How can we do this better".
• be generous with your knowledge, time, and feedback.
• be bold, seeing challenges as opportunities that can be overcome as a team.
• have exceptional communication skills.
• be comfortable with distilling complex information into commercial insights
• have the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

If successful, you will be rewarded with a unique opportunity to contribute to strategic projects of importance to the Group whilst gaining exposure to Macquarie's senior leadership.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion and empower our staff to aim for excellence in everything we do.We believe that flexibility is a key driver to our people's success and welcome the opportunity to discuss what flexibility means to you.

About the Financial Management Group

The Financial Management Group provides financial, tax and treasury services to all areas of Macquarie. The group is focused on providing strategic analysis and advice to Macquarie's businesses and senior management, managing Macquarie's funding, liquidity and capital position, ensuring Macquarie continues to meet regulatory and compliance obligations and managing Macquarie's corporate affairs.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Macquarie understands the importance of diversity and inclusion - our long history of success has come from being different. At Macquarie we value the innovation and creativity that diversity of thought brings. The one thing we all have in common is our focus on high performance. If you're capable, motivated and can deliver, we want you on our team.

We recognise that flexibility comes in a variety of forms. Talk to us about what flexibility you need.

If you are motivated by this opportunity, we would like to hear from you.