What are the responsibilities and job description for the Analyst Group Support Services Finance position at Commonwealth Bank of Australia?
About the Team
Financial Services partners with all areas of CommBank to provide specialist advice on financial management and strategy. This advice covers finance, audit, treasury, investor relations, property, procurement and security.
The Group Support Services Finance (GSSF) team is part of Group Finance, partnering with senior leadership of the bank’s Financial Services, Marketing, Strategy, Risk, Human Resources and Legal functions. GSSF manages the end-to-end finance functions for these support units and collaborates regularly with the other business unit finance teams throughout the organisation. The team manages a significant portion of the Group’s cost base and has direct engagement and exposure to many members of the Bank’s senior leadership team.
See yourself in our team
The purpose of the role is to provide finance support to Marketing and Legal portfolios. You will own the day-to-day finance operations and regular deliverables. You will also provide the finance support to the portfolios when required. To be successful in this role, you will need the ability to manage stakeholders, to prioritise and possess a continuous improvement mindset.
Key duties will include:
- Maintain robust financial control through: Processing of month end journals and Balance sheet analysis, substantiation and reconciliation
- Management reporting: successfully own the month-end process and P&L analysis including presentation of month end results, and complete monthly submissions to Group Finance
- Report the monthly result to senior business stakeholders across portfolios
- Business partnering: work closely with stakeholders to track performance against budget, and apply financial and accounting acumen to assist with decision making
- Process improvement, standardization and simplification preparation, presentation and monitoring of annual budgets and rolling forecasts following extensive engagement with key stakeholders
- Positively contribute to team culture and the work environment
We're interested in hearing from people who have:
- Management or financial accounting experience
- Commercial acumen and strong analytical skills
- CA/CPA/CFA qualified, or part qualified
- High levels of motivation and resilience
- Excellent customer & continuous improvement focus
- Ability to work independently and be self-motivated
- Strong communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and execution
- High degree of competence in Excel
- Risk Mindset – All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.
Your Development
In Financial Services we take a proactive approach to your career development. Your on-going development would be part of an integrated development plan. If you live the values and demonstrate the people capabilities we can offer great opportunities. Whether you want to move across the organisation or up into a leadership role, the way you live the values and demonstrate the people capabilities are key. Use the capabilities required for this role as a guide to the critical skills and behaviours you need for your next move.
If you would like to hear more about this role please apply!
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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