At Aristocrat, we're powering the future of play through world-class talent, market-leading products, and a relentless focus on innovation. As we continue our global growth journey, we're seeking a transformational leader to design and build a next-generation enterprise planning capability that will directly influence how we invest, scale, and compete.

It's a rare opportunity to lead an enterprise-wide transformation, partnering with senior executives to redefine how strategic workforce decisions are made across a global technology and gaming business. You will architect the future state planning model, modernise planning processes, leverage data and AI-driven insights, and establish a globally integrated approach that links talent, strategy, and financial performance. This chance is ideal for a motivated leader who flourishes in a dynamic atmosphere and wants to create substantial impact!

What You'll Do

- Define and implement a future-state operating model across Finance, P&C;, Business Units, Corporate Functions, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, including accountabilities, decision rights, and governance forums.
- Redesign the end-to-end workforce planning cycle from strategic demand through to budget, forecast, reporting, and executive decision-making.
- Lead the enterprise workforce planning transformation, encompassing the rationale for change, transformation roadmap, main accomplishments, and ongoing integration of new methods.
- Partner with Finance, P&C;, and executive leaders to translate strategic priorities, organisational changes, and growth plans into governed workforce plans.
- Drive process standardisation, planning assumptions, data definitions, reporting standards, governance routines, and approval pathways to improve consistency, transparency, and accountability.
- Deliver robust workforce budgets and forecasts covering headcount, labour costs, contractors, and workforce-related investments.
- Own consolidated headcount forecasting, including workforce trends, vacancies, hiring pipelines, attrition, contractor usage, efficiency, and labour cost movements.




- Develop workforce scenarios to assess growth, efficiency initiatives, organisational redesign, acquisitions, restructuring, and labour investment choices.
- Work with the Regional Centre's Of Excellence to ensure appropriate workforce planning reporting, dashboarding, and self-service analytics are developed, maintained, and aligned to collaborator needs.
- Provide executive insights on transformation progress, workforce performance, labour cost trends, forecast accuracy, efficiency, risks, and opportunities.
- Promote the adoption of change by engaging collaborators, analyzing change impact, facilitating communication, offering training, preparing documentation, and developing capabilities.
- Lead and mentor the Workforce Planning Manager and Finance Analysts, building capability in transformation delivery, workforce analytics, financial modelling, and business partnering.

What We're Looking For
- Minimum of 12+ years' experience across Finance Transformation, FP&A;, Workforce Planning, Analytics, or related roles in complex global organisations.

- Deep experience leading enterprise transformation programs, including current-state assessment, future-state development, implementation planning, delivery governance, and benefits realisation.
- Structured problem solver with excellent data and financial analysis skills.
- Strategy development through to implementation skills.
- Proven experience redesigning finance or planning processes, operating models, governance structures, and decision forums across complex collaborator groups.
- Strong transformation delivery capability, including roadmap development, achievement tracking, dependency management, risk mitigation, issue resolution,



and executive status reporting.
- Experience integrating balanced change through working with collaborators, evaluating change effects, communications, training, documentation, and adoption assistance.
- Strong understanding of workforce planning, headcount forecasting, labour cost management, efficiency drivers, and the link between workforce investment and financial outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to use data, automation, AI-enabled tools, and advanced analytics to transform planning quality, forecasting accuracy, insight generation, and decision support.
- Experience driving innovation in planning tools, dashboards, self-service reporting, and data governance, including platforms such as Anaplan, Workday, TM1, D365, Power BI, or similar.

Opis stanowiska mógł zostać sprawdzony i udoskonalony przy użyciu narzędzi wykorzystujących sztuczną inteligencję w celu poprawy przejrzystości, spójności i inkluzywności. Ostateczna treść, wymagania dotyczące stanowiska oraz decyzje rekrutacyjne podlegają weryfikacji przez człowieka i zatwierdzeniu przez Aristocrat.

Filozofia wynagradzania Oferujemy kompleksowy pakiet wynagrodzenia i świadczeń, zaprojektowany tak, aby pozostawać konkurencyjnym na rynku, wspierać dobrostan pracowników oraz doceniać ich wkład w nasz sukces. Nasze podejście opiera się na zasadzie wynagradzania za wyniki, nagradzając indywidualny wpływ i osiągnięcia.

Twój indywidualny pakiet wynagrodzenia zostanie określony na podstawie takich czynników jak umiejętności, doświadczenie, kwalifikacje oraz lokalizacja. W zależności od stanowiska i lokalizacji możesz być uprawniony(-a) do otrzymywania rocznych premii i świadczeń motywacyjnych, benefitów związanych ze zdrowiem i dobrostanem, płatnego czasu wolnego, programów emerytalnych, ochrony ubezpieczeniowej oraz innych lokalnych lub ustawowych świadczeń.

Szczegółowe informacje dotyczące wynagrodzenia i świadczeń dla tego stanowiska zostaną omówione podczas procesu rekrutacyjnego.

📌 Senior Director: Enterprise Workforce Planning Transformation (Sydney)
🏢 Aristocrat
📍 Sydney