Job Description

At Cuscal, you’ll find a strong, successful company that’s reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all. Here, you’ll deliver or support interesting, ground-breaking projects that have real impact - on Australia’s financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves. You’ll innovate alongside skilled, smart, connected teams. And you’ll build an impressive, fulfilling career that continues to grow. As the largest independent payment solution providers, we’ve set the standard for over 50 years. Now, we’re preparing to pioneer the next 50.

About the role

This role supports the Finance Manager in the Client, Growth & Strategy division by providing quality financial advice and decision support. Finance Business Partners work strategically to prepare financial modelling, reporting, budgeting and forecasting to assist our teams to meet and exceed their financial targets in the short, medium, and long term.

The responsibilities in this role include:

Decision Support:

• Build and maintain financial models including client renewal pricing models, new business sales pipeline forecasting models, scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, and other ad-hoc financial analytical activities as required.

• Support Product and key business partners with key transactional inputs into pricing strategies for client pricing proposals, renewals and mergers.

• Partner the BU leadership team with financial decision-making by providing relevant data, analysis, and recommendations.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives within the Business Unit Finance team and domain. Focus on enhancing productivity, efficiency, and the overall effectiveness of financial processes.

Reporting (Month, HY and FY):

• Manage the monthly financial activities end to end covering month, YTD and performance reporting.
• Prepare and present monthly performance dashboards across key business channels, highlighting key client and product metrics, trends, and variances.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities and provide meaningful insights and recommendations based on financial analysis to drive better business performance.

Forecasting & Budgeting

• Delivery of financial plans and forecast – construct and maintain a driver based 3-year strategic plan and rolling monthly forecast in accordance with timetable.

• Analysis of inputs, particularly transaction drivers (or similar) working with the business to gain driver-based inputs and insights.

• Prepare qualitative insightful reporting on budget/forecast submissions, including potential opportunity and risks

What can you bring?
This role is a very visible one within Cuscal where you will get the opportunity to partner with and present to key stakeholders.

• A relevant university degree (and CA/CPA qualified) with proven commercial application and experience
• More than 5 years experience within a management accounting or FP&A team
• Advanced analytical skills, including the ability to identify when data and analysis is materially incorrect, and obtain solutions.
• Proven and effective business partnering abilities
• Experience in delivery of continuous improvement initiatives or financial process change initiatives.

Desirable

• Experience within retail banking or payments

Why Cuscal?
We are in the rapidly evolving world of payments, and we are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. We support our colleagues with flexible work arrangements through our hybrid model whilst also offering a wide range of educational, financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits.

Next Step
If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Let’s explore who you are and what drives you. We’d love to share our vision for the future of payments sector. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.

Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies and search firms. Please do not email or send unsolicited resumes to any Cuscal employee, location or address.