Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
22 Sept 2023 11:59pm
Job Title
Finance Analyst
Job Summary
Job Description
Connect with Telstra
Our purpose to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. And that’s where you come in, by helping our customers to connect faster, better and smarter.
We'll give you the tools and support to have ownership and accountability over your role.
Make a difference
As part of Strategy & Finance, your mission will be to help drive our shared strategic vision. Enable the business by providing commercial advice and managing key strategic, operational and financial risks.
The role with us
As a Finance Analyst, you play a pivotal role in the development of operating plans that support strategic goals. Your strong technical understanding and deep knowledge of financial strategies and objectives is what makes you outstand in your role. You deliver remarkable financial and commercial analysis that has a strong, positive impact on Telstra’s key activities and initiatives. You help tackle complex business issues, through providing analytically informed and quantitatively derived business insights and recommendations into financial status and performance across business units. You are collaborative and enjoy working closely with internal stakeholders to stimulate behaviours that drive value and achieve strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
* Financial reporting, planning and analysis of Telstra Purple
* Alignment of accounting and reporting frameworks to facilitate Telstra’s requirements
* Management of Telstra Purple forecast/budget
* Liaising and engaging with various finance SME’s (treasury, finance, accounting, shared services) to drive a consolidated financial reporting
* Support the NAS finance team with end to end view
* Completion of internal and external group reporting obligations in accordance with applicable legislative requirements
* Board meeting presentations to directors
* Support team members with the completion of month-end activities including P&L and balance sheet management, posting of manual adjustments and preparation of reporting packs, ensuring output is of an excellent standard
* Support the continuous improvement in the upstream, downstream and financial processes to achieve an optimal operating model for the management of Telstra Purple
* Take accountability for assigned work tasks, working independently when contributing to core activities such as the preparation of periodic management reporting and financial results for assigned business areas
* Participate in sessions with interdepartmental stakeholders, contributing quality financial analysis and timely advice to various business groups aligned to strategic financial objectives
About You
* CA or CPA qualification or working towards
* Experience in both management accounting – to support business partnership and technical accounting - to support accounting compliance
* Desire to build leadership skills with a genuine commitment to building capabilities
* Strong analytical skills with high attention to details
* Proven demonstration of a growth mindset with tenacity for problem solving and willingness to seek information and appropriately challenge status quo
* Passion for numbers and improving financial performance
Key skill groups:
* Analytical Thinking
* Attention to detail
* Collaboration
* Commercial Acumen
* Communicating with Influence
* Critical Thinking
* Data gathering, analysis, and reporting
* Financial Management
* Financial modelling
* Financial Reporting
* Interpersonal skills
* Knowledge of billing and financial systems
* Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
* Problem Solving
* Stakeholder Engagement
* Teamwork
* Technical Accounting Knowledge
* Translating data into insights
If you enjoy collaborating with different people and delivering amazing experiences for the customer, we want to hear from you!
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We encourage applications from people of all abilities and backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBQTI+ community, linguistically diverse, and people living with disability. When you apply, you can choose to note the pronouns you use and /or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the interview process.