As an FP&A; Manager, this role plays a key part in delivering group-level financial insight across a complex, global organisation, supporting executive decision-making and long-term value creation, with regular exposure to senior leadership and the Executive Committee.

Partnering closely with senior stakeholders across Distribution, Marketing and Product, you'll lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning, provide recommendations to drive performance, and contribute to improvements in reporting, systems and analytics.

This is a highly visible role within Group Finance, offering exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to contribute to strategic initiatives, transformation programmes and future leadership opportunities within the Finance function.

This role suits someone with a proactive mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to translate complex data into meaningful business outcomes.

Your Day-to-day

- Business partner to Global Distribution, Marketing and Product teams across APAC
- Lead group budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning
- Deliver financial reporting, performance analysis and commercial insights to support decision-making
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing outcomes through data-driven recommendations
- Own and enhance FP&A; models, assumptions and data integrity
- Partner across Finance and the broader business to drive continuous improvement, automation and simplification

Success In The Role Will Be Demonstrated Through

- High-quality FP&A; outputs that support executive decision-making
- Efficient and continuously improving planning processes
- Commercial insights that drive performance and accountability
- Robust partnerships across Finance and the wider business

Your Experience

- Experience across FP&A;, management reporting, budgeting,



forecasting and long-range planning, including ownership of end-to-end planning cycles and competing deadlines
- Proven ability to partner with and influence senior stakeholders
- Financial Services and/or Investment Management experience is desirable, but not essential
- We are open to candidates stepping up from a Senior Analyst role with the right experience and potential

Your Skills

- Strong financial analysis, modelling and business partnering skills, with the ability to translate data into meaningful insights
- Commercially minded, with experience supporting strategic decision-making and driving business performance
- Confident engaging and influencing senior and executive stakeholders
- CPA or CA qualified (or equivalent)
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with experience using Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive Planning or similar cloud-based finance platforms
- Familiarity with reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI and Power Query
- Track record of driving automation, process improvement, standardisation and simplification
- Experience in financial services or a complex global organisation is advantageous

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I;)

We value the different experience, ideas and perspectives that our people bring to the work they do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable culture where diversity can thrive. We believe this leads to better outcomes for our people and our clients, and it’s the right thing to do.

We provide equal employment opportunities to applicants regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, age, family status, or any other category protected by law.

If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or as part of the role, please let us know so we can support you.

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📌 Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (City of Sydney)
🏢 First Sentier Group
📍 City of Sydney