Assistant Finance Analyst – Suncorp

Location: Sydney (Hybrid working available)

Position: Full-Time (12 Months Contract)

Team: CFO Insurance – Finance & Advice

Salary: PB3 Band

Kick-start your finance career with Suncorp

Are you a recent Accounting, Finance or Business graduate looking to build your career in a leading financial services organisation? Suncorp is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Assistant Finance Analyst to join our CFO Insurance Finance team.

This role is ideal for recent graduates or early-career finance professionals looking to gain hands‑on experience across financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and month‑end processes while working alongside experienced finance professionals in a supportive and collaborative environment.

What you'll be doing

- Support month‑end finance activities, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of financial results.
- Prepare and process accounting journals, reconciliations, and variance investigations.
- Proactively investigate and resolve data variances and reconciliation issues.
- Assist with monthly management reporting, Board reporting, and Half‑Year and Full‑Year external reporting activities.
- Contribute to forecasting and budgeting activities through financial analysis and insights.
- Identify and implement process improvements to simplify reporting and improve processes, contributing to transformation and continuous improvement activities.
- Partner with stakeholders across Finance & Advice to support performance reporting and business decision-making.
- Develop an understanding of key business drivers, trends, and financial performance outcomes.

What we're looking for

- Degree qualification in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
- Up to 2 years' experience in accounting, finance, business analysis, or analytical roles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Inquisitive mindset with the ability to identify trends, investigate variances, and deliver meaningful insights.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with financial systems and reporting tools.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively while managing competing priorities and delivering accurate work within tight deadlines.
- A continuous improvement focus, with the capability to identify efficiencies and enhance reporting, processes and controls.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Interest in financial services and a desire to build a long-term career in finance.
- Progress towards, or interest in pursuing, professional qualifications such as CA, CPA, or CFA.
- Exposure to financial services, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, or decision support activities.
- Experience with tools such as Oracle, TM1/Cognos, or Power BI.
- Knowledge of General Insurance financial reporting and/or IFRS17.




- Understanding of the financial services industry and its key business drivers.

What You'll Enjoy

Access our award‑winning Shine platform – your central hub for exclusive perks, wellbeing support, career development, and recognition. Shine has been recognised for excellence in employee experience, making it easier than ever to access what matters most to you.

- Opportunity to receive performance-based Incentives and Suncorp shares for eligible employees
- Hybrid working, flexible leave, 20 weeks paid parental leave, and up to 5 days paid flexible leave annually
- Paid study support, career breaks, on‑the‑job learning, and a $1,000 referral bonus for eligible employees
- Free wellbeing coaching, a dedicated Employee Council, and confidential EAP access
- Discounts at 900+ retailers, Fitness Passport, and reduced super fees
- Paid volunteer leave, donation matching, and unlimited emergency response leave
- Diversity is celebrated through employee resource groups and inclusive policies for all families

At Suncorp we believe we are our best when our workforce is as diverse, talented and passionate as the communities in which we live and operate, and where our people feel included, valued and connected. We are passionate about inspiring our people by creating a diverse, accessible, and inclusive culture, offering versatile work, career development and internal mobility, and building connected relationships among our team members and with our customers. Suncorp Group employee benefits are designed to support, empower and reward our people. Make working, work for you.

As the Commercial Finance Analyst, you will support the Finance Manager through the execution and delivery of efficient, standardised, and high‑impact reporting, planning and analysis delivering sharp financial intelligence that fuels bold, data‑backed decisions and unlocks future growth for the Client Partnership Division. You will be working right at the heart of the action, you will actively partner with business leaders to align operations with overarching strategy and supercharge long‑term profitability! Responsibilities

- Create, consolidate, prepare, and own the initial budget, monthly financial results, and quarterly forecasts across all revenue and expenditure lines.
- Partner with key stakeholders to drive sound commercial decisions and collaboratively implement strategic process and efficiency improvements.
- Deliver high‑quality, robust reporting to key stakeholders, combining financial and non‑financial metrics with a focus on surfacing market trends and lag indicators.




- Analyse business performance trends and underlying drivers to explain variances between actual results, budgets, and forecasts.
- Continuously monitor ongoing financial performance to proactively identify, evaluate, and manage potential risks and opportunities.
- Develop actionable recommendations to enhance portfolio budget management while continuously identifying and implementing operational efficiencies.

Who are you?

- You have 3+ years of experience in a similar role and CA/CPA qualified.
- You have strong commercial mindset and accounting competency with demonstrated expertise in revenue and cost management.
- You're skilled in business case development and advanced financial modelling.
- You're a strategic thinker and self‑starter who applies a practical, commercial approach to business opportunities.
- You have exceptional analytical, communication, and stakeholder management abilities with a proven knack for partnering and influencing.
- You're highly resilient with the proven capability to manage and deliver on competing deadlines.

Why News Corp Australia

Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.

News Extras Benefits is a commitment to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Our benefits include:

Exclusively ours — Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family

Perks & discounts — Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits

Health & wellbeing — Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)

Time off — News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.

Financial wellbeing — Support on making the most of your money

In addition to our perks and benefits, employees have access to a number of initiatives and programs that support their wellbeing and professional growth, such as:

Helping you grow — Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career

Giving back — Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives

Workplace Inclusion and facilities — Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

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