Finance Manager FP&A

Role Overview

What You'll Do

• Direct everyday workforce planning operations, coordinating planning calendars, templates, inputs, submissions, and follow-through across Business Units and Corporate Functions.
• Maintain detailed documentation of headcount, labour expenses, contractor engagement, and vacancy plans to ensure workforce data remains accurate, complete, and aligned with authorised financial assumptions.
• Coordinate the delivery of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reporting cycles by consolidating inputs, reviewing outputs, and identifying key movements, risks, and opportunities.
• Perform variance analysis on headcount and labour costs, including hiring activity, attrition, vacancies, transfers, contractors, role changes, and efficiency initiatives.
• Partner with Finance and P&C teams to reconcile workforce planning data with source systems, payroll information, organisational structures, and approved budgets.
• Collaborate with the RCOE team to ensure workforce planning reporting, dashboarding, and self-service analytics are developed, maintained, and meet the needs of collaborators.
• Support the development, testing, and implementation of standardised workforce planning templates, data definitions, reporting outputs, and process documentation.
• Identify data quality issues, process gaps, and improvement opportunities, advancing themes, insights, and recommended actions to the Director.
• Assist with workforce scenario modelling to assess the impact of hiring plans, efficiency initiatives, organisational changes, and labour cost assumptions.
• Guide collaborators in embracing the redesigned workforce planning process through clear communication, practical mentorship, and hands-on support.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance to Workforce Planning Finance Senior Analysts, enhancing capabilities in analytics, financial modelling, data quality, reporting, partner support, and problem-solving.
• Support the continuous development of workforce planning tools, processes, and forecasting methodologies.

What We're Looking For

• A minimum of 10+ years working in Finance, FP&A, Workforce Planning, or similar analytical roles is required.
• You must have been responsible for planning tasks or supervising analyst efforts in a challenging setting.
• Demonstrated ability in handling headcount, labour cost, contractor, and vacancy planning data.
• Exceptional forecasting, budgeting, financial modelling, analysis, and data reconciliation skills.
• Demonstrated experience supporting budget, forecast, month-end reporting, or workforce planning activities within a complex organisation.
• Ability to work with large datasets, resolve issues, and translate data into clear insights and recommendations.
• Experience bringing to bear AI-enabled tools, automation, and workflow improvements to enhance planning efficiency, reporting quality, data validation, and insight generation.
• Strong attention to detail, process rigour, and ability to manage competing planning and reporting deadlines.
• Demonstrated skill in leading by influence, coordinating the activities of Senior Finance Analysts, reviewing results, establishing clear expectations, and maintaining progress on schedule.
• Strong collaboration skills across Finance, P&C, data teams, and business partners.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, including reporting packs, analysis, and management commentary.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Compensation Philosophy

• Aristocrat offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support wellbeing, and recognise contribution to success.
• The approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact.
• Specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and location.
• Depending on role and location, employees may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.
• Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Application Notes

• This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity.
• All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.