Job Description
Senior Finance Business Partner - Institutional Banking
As a Senior Finance Business Partner – Institutional Banking, you will play a key role in providing commercial finance support, performance insight and decision support to senior business stakeholders.
Working within a collaborative Finance team, the role will have a particular focus on business performance, forecasting, commercial analysis and strategic decision support, helping translate complex financial drivers into explicit insights, recommendations and actions.
You will be responsible for:
Acting as a senior Finance partner to Institutional Banking leadership and senior stakeholders
Providing commercial insight across revenue, costs, balance sheet, funding, capital, investments and returns
Supporting actuals, forecasting and planning cycles, providing clear analysis of key drivers, risks and opportunities
Developing clear performance narratives and recommendations to support senior decision-making
Challenging assumptions and identifying opportunities to improve financial and commercial performance
Providing financial analysis across investment decisions, change initiatives and business cases
Working closely with Planning, Treasury, Risk, Financial Control and other Finance teams
Coordinating Finance inputs and ensuring clear ownership across complex stakeholder groups
Driving improvements to Finance processes, ways of working and the quality of management information
As a Senior Finance Business Partner – Institutional Banking, you will play a key role in providing commercial finance support, performance insight and decision support to senior business stakeholders.
Working within a collaborative Finance team, the role will have a particular focus on business performance, forecasting, commercial analysis and strategic decision support, helping translate complex financial drivers into clear insights, recommendations and actions.




You will be responsible for:
Acting as a senior Finance partner to Institutional Banking leadership and senior stakeholders
Providing commercial insight across revenue, costs, balance sheet, funding, capital, investments and returns
Supporting actuals, forecasting and planning cycles, providing clear analysis of key drivers, risks and opportunities
Developing clear performance narratives and recommendations to support senior decision-making
Challenging assumptions and identifying opportunities to improve financial and commercial performance
Providing financial analysis across investment decisions, change initiatives and business cases
Working closely with Planning, Treasury, Risk, Financial Control and other Finance teams
Coordinating Finance inputs and ensuring clear ownership across complex stakeholder groups
Driving improvements to Finance processes, ways of working and the quality of management information
This is a broad, commercially focused opportunity offering significant exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to help shape how Finance partners with a major Institutional Banking business.
The Candidate
The ideal candidate will bring:
Strong Finance Business Partnering, commercial finance or performance management experience
Experience within banking
Strong understanding of forecasting, planning, financial performance and decision support
Exposure toInstitutional/CorporateBanking would be highly regarded
An appropriate Finance qualification, CA/CPA
Strong commercial judgement and the ability to understand and challenge key financial drivers
Confidence operating with senior and executive-level stakeholders
The ability to translate complex financial information into clear commercial insights and recommendations
Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
A collaborative, hands‐on approach with the ability to operate across multiple priorities

📌 Senior Finance Business Partner - Institutional Banking (New South Wales)
🏢 Lanson Partners
📍 New South Wales