About the job

Be a member of the Finance Partnering team supporting the Chief Operating Office (COO) within Personal Banking.

Opportunity to show your uncompromising drive to help innovate and drive change.

Drive consistency in reporting and process including driving NAB Finance’s strategy to modernise Finance and seek opportunities to drive simplification and process efficiencies.

Our people are customer obsessed. They prioritise the needs and satisfaction of the customer above all else. Our mindset fosters innovation and creates strong, lasting customer relationships as we strive to be the most customer centric company in Australia and New Zealand.

As a Finance Partner, you will join NAB’s Personal Banking Finance team that’s focused on winning together to produce and provide commercial financial insight, analysis and recommendations to drive and improve COO’s performance.

As a Finance Partner, you will

• Assess, analyse, and investigate aspects of financial reporting for the Personal Bank COO division, including core performance metrics and how these metrics impact the P&L. In addition, supporting the production of half-yearly external reporting requirements; consolidated by the PBF Central Reporting team.
• Support the Business Unit Executives in partnership with the Head of Finance, to grow the business, align with our strategic ambition and ensure transformation / simplification benefits are achieved in a sustainable and coordinated manner.
• Deliver monthly reporting, understand the performance drivers, and provide key reasons for variance from plan and prior reporting periods.
• Obtain historical financial and non-financial data and assist to illustrate relationships between data sets, using Power Pivot or Power BI where possible.
• Identify financial and non-financial performance trends through critical review and analysis and develop and recommend strategies to improve business performance.
• Be a key contributor to the maintenance of a strong PB balance sheet control and understanding through central oversight of the sign off balance sheet reconciliations including ensuring aged balances are cleared and reconciliation breaks are clearly understood and providing detailed analysis and information to support the FDC process.
• Constructively challenge management’s proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of the relevant Business Unit, providing advice to the Business Units leadership teams on critical decisions and trade-offs.

What You Will Bring

• Stakeholder management expertise where you can constructively challenge management’s proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of the relevant Business Unit.
• Experience across a range of Finance disciplines including partnering with divisions, corporate centre planning and reporting and financial control roles.
• Tertiary qualification in Commerce/Business/Economics, Science, Engineering with CA/CPA preferable.
• Data and business intelligence, including advanced Excel skills and ideally some exposure to PowerBI.
• Good understanding of process, risk and controls on reporting and analysis.
• Process improvement capability in both identification and successful implementation of process re-engineering initiatives.
• Sound professional experience in finance/accounting, financial services or corporate reporting.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone

We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of equity and respect - where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their authentic selves. In partnership with our multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we continue to foster an inclusive environment, where all NAB colleagues’ unique backgrounds and identities are understood, respected and celebrated.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can work your way.

• Assess, analyse, and investigate aspects of financial reporting for the Personal Bank COO division, including core performance metrics and how these metrics impact the P&L. In addition, supporting the production of half-yearly external reporting requirements; consolidated by the PBF Central Reporting team.
• Support the Business Unit Executives in partnership with the Head of Finance, to grow the business, align with our strategic ambition and ensure transformation / simplification benefits are achieved in a sustainable and coordinated manner.
• Deliver monthly reporting, understand the performance drivers, and provide key reasons for variance from plan and prior reporting periods.
• Obtain historical financial and non-financial data and assist to illustrate relationships between data sets, using Power Pivot or Power BI where possible.
• Identify financial and non-financial performance trends through critical review and analysis and develop and recommend strategies to improve business performance.
• Be a key contributor to the maintenance of a strong PB balance sheet control and understanding through central oversight of the sign off balance sheet reconciliations including ensuring aged balances are cleared and reconciliation breaks are clearly understood and providing detailed analysis and information to support the FDC process.
• Constructively challenge management’s proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of the relevant Business Unit, providing advice to the Business Units leadership teams on critical decisions and trade-offs.

• Stakeholder management expertise
• Advanced Excel skills
• Exposure to PowerBI
• Good understanding of process, risk and controls on reporting and analysis
• Process improvement capability

• Tertiary qualification in Commerce/Business/Economics, Science, Engineering with CA/CPA preferable.
• Experience across a range of Finance disciplines including partnering with divisions, corporate centre planning and reporting and financial control roles.
• Sound professional experience in finance/accounting, financial services or corporate reporting.